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Performance Today for Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Episode Playlist

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vittorio Monti: Csardas
Violinist Maxim Vengerov with Virtuosi and pianist Vag Papian

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Pianist Stephen Hough with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Litton

Stephen Reynolds: "Chanson d'Automne" from "Two Poems in Homage to Faure"
Pianist Stephen Hough

Leonard Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"
Members of the New York Philharmonic and other New York City orchestras with conductor James Levine

Felix Mendelssohn: Third and fourth movements from Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Pianist Nicholas Angelich, violinist Renaud Capucon, and cellist Gautier Capucon

Henry Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Orchestra
Trumpeter Gary Bordner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Nicholas McGegan

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Second and sixth movements from Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat, KV 563
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, violist Tabea Zimmerman and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff

Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Piano and Harp
Clarinetist Martin Spangenberg with the Munich Philharmonic and conductor James Levine

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in B, Op. 9, No. 3
Pianist Ingrid Fliter

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