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Enigma from Los Angeles

Perhaps it's appropriate that the Los Angeles Philharmonic plays in a concert hall named for this country's most famous animator. In today's show, the L.A. Phil plays Edward Elgar's set of lovingly-drawn musical portraits of his friends and family, the Enigma Variations. We'll hear a concert performance from the orchestra's home, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Edward Elgar: Excerpts from the Wand of Youth Suite No. 1, Op. 1a
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, conductor

Friedrich Gulda: Three exercises from Play Piano Play
Alessandro Taverna, piano
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

Alberto Ginastera: Milonga
Valerie Milot, harp
Ansermet Studio, Geneva, Switzerland

Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Robin Ticciati, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Jean l'Heritier: Nigra Sum
Stile Antico
Flanders Festival, Bruges, Belgium

Hour 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Fourth movement from Suite for Orchestra in D Minor (arranged for piano)
Denis Matsuev, piano

Anonymous (Arranged by Jose Riojas): Veracruz
The New Century Saxophone Quartet
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Massachusetts

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Simon Trpceski, piano, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, and Stuart Duncan: Where's My Bow?
Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile, fiddles, Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Edgar Meyer, bass

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