Poster Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel
Dan Porges
Performance Today®

Dudamel and the L.A. Phil

If Gustavo Dudamel was running on fumes the night he and the Los Angeles Philharmonic played at London's Barbican Hall, no one could tell. He and the members of the L.A. Phil had stayed up late the night before, celebrating his 30th birthday. And they went on to deliver a dynamite concert the next day. One critic called it "electrifying, impossible not to be swept away." We'll hear highlights from that post-birthday concert in today's show.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Camille Saint-Saens: Une Nuit a Lisbonne (A Night in Lisbon), Op. 63
The Orchestre Symphonique Francais, Laurent Petitgirard, conductor

Charles Martin Loeffler: The Bagpipe, Rhapsody No. 2 for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
Ben Hausmann, oboe, Cynthia Phelps, viola, Anton Nel, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Redmond, Washington

Leonard Bernstein: Prophecy, from Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah)
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Barbican Hall, London, England

Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75
Julia Fischer, violin, Milana Chernyavska, piano
Castle, Salem, Germany

Hour 2

Maurice Ravel: La Vallee des Cloches (Valley of the Bells)
Nathaniel Rosen, cello, Doris Stevenson, piano

Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 2
Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher, piano
Minnesota Beethoven Festival, Winona, Minnesota

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S. 124
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas

Claude Debussy: Pan's Flute, from Chansons de Bilitis
Renee Fleming, soprano, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Maurice Ravel: Blues, from Violin Sonata in G
Nicola Benedetti, violin, Katya Apekisheva, piano
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Musicians
Alice Tully Hall, New York City

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