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Performance Today for Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Episode Playlist

Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring"
Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica

Wynton Marsalis: "Hellbound Highball" from "The Octoroon Balls"
The Orion String Quartet

Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
Pianist Andre Watts with the Bergen Philharmonic and conductor Andrew Litton

John Sheppard: Libera, Nos. I & II
Stile Antico

Jules Massenet: "Twilight"
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianist Matthew Hagle

Frederic Chopin: "Minute Waltz"
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianist Matthew Hagle

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Manchega," Etude de Concert
Pianist Cecile Licad

Johann Strauss, Jr: "Champagne Galop"
The Boskovsky Ensemble with violinist and director William Boskovsky

Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Flutist Emmanuel Pahud with the Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Sir Simon Rattle

Robert Schumann: "Carnival Jest from Vienna," Op. 26
Pianist Aldo Ciccolini

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