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Performance Today for Thursday, November 8, 2007

Episode Playlist

Paul Hindemith: Third movement from Symphonic Metamorphosis of a Theme by Carl Maria von Weber
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with conductor Yoel Levi

Marcelo Zarvos: "Arrival"
Ethel

Ernesto Lecuona: Mazurka
Pianist Jorge Luis Prats

Howard Shore: Three Pieces from "The Departed"
Guitarists Sharon Isbin and Mattias Jacobsson

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in F, RV 569
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with violinist and conductor Hiro Kurosaki

Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from a€œTristan and Isoldea€
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with conductor Bernard Haitink

Antonio Vivaldi: Second movements from Violin Concerto No. 2 ("Summer") and No. 4 from "The Four Seasons"
Violinist Sarah Chang with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Modest Mussorgsky: "Hopak" from "Sorochintsy Fair"
Pianist Olga Kern

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Pianist Olga Kern

Traditional Ukrainian and Russian folk tunes: The Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir with conductor Nikon Zhila
"Oh, To the Hills!" and "In the Smithy"

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with conductor Alan Gilbert

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