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March 18, 2013
Deep Concentration
Solos come, solos go. In "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, the flute takes a turn. Then the saxophone. The trombone. Most everybody else plays the melody and stops to take a breather now and then. But not the poor snare drummer. There are 4,064 snare drum taps in Bolero. The snare drummer plays the same pattern 169 times. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a study in deep concentration for percussionists: Ravel's Bolero performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in from a concert Amsterdam.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Alexander Scriabin
Etude Op. 2, No. 1 in c-sharp minor and Etude Op. 8 No. 10 in d-flat major
Lang Lang, piano
Telarc 80582
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Mlada - Procession of the Nobles
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
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Anonymous
Virgine egregie
Ars Coralis Coeln; Maria Jonas, director
Frauenkirche, Nuremberg, Germany
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Anonymous
Veritatis veritatum
Ars Coralis Coeln; Maria Jonas, director
Frauenkirche, Nuremberg, Germany
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Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Lang Lang, piano; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Long Yu, conductor
Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH
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Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales, No. 7
Vladimir Spivakov, violin and Sergei Bezrodny, piano
RCA 60861
hour 2
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Carl Reinecke
Octet, Op. 216
Marina Piccinini, flute; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Moran Katz, clarinet; Radovan Vladkovic, horn; Jill Bartles, horn; William Winstead, bassoon; Natalya Rose Vrbsky, bassoon
Concert Hall, Marlboro, Vermont
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Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 530
Chris Thile, mandolin; Caterina Lichtenberg, mandolin; Mike Marshall, mandocello
Charles H. Morris Center, Savannah, Georgia
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Williamsburg Prebyterian Church, Williamsburg, Virginia
