Poster Fred Child and Chris Thile
Fred Child and Chris Thile in the PT studio
APM photo/Marc Sanchez
Performance Today®

April 10, 2015: Chris Thile

On Friday's Performance Today, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile will join Fred in the studio to co-host an hour of PT. He'll play some Bach, and talk about seeing his favorite Mahler symphony in concert. The musical enthusiasms of Chris Thile, on the next Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.1 In G Minor: 3. Siciliana
Chris Thile, mandolin
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas 1
Nonesuch 535360

Samuel Barber: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 14: 1. Allegro; 3. Presto
Hilary Hahn, violin; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: Hugh Wolff, conductor
Barber & Meyer: Violin Concertos
Sony 89029

Bela Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra: 2. Allegro scherzando
Chicago Symphony; Fritz Reiner, conductor
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
RCA 61504

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major BWV 1006: 1. Prelude
Chris Thile, mandolin
American Public Media Studios, St. Paul, MN

Claude Debussy (arr. Punch Brothers): Suite Bergamasque: 4. Passepied
Punch Brothers: Chris Thile, mandolin; Paul Kowert, bass; Noam Pikelny, banjo; Chris Eldridge, guitar; Gabe Witcher, violin
A Prairie Home Companion, Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN

Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer: Look What I Found
Edgar Meyer, piano; Chris Thile, mandolin
Bass and Mandolin
Nonesuch 544735

Hour 2

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Victoria Drake): Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major: 5 Gigue
Victoria Drake, harp
From the Bach Notebook of Harpist Victoria Drake
Well Tempered Productions 5193

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B-flat
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano; String Theory 5; Gloria Chien, conductor
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Nikita Koshkin: Suite for Four Guitars
Georgia Guitar Quartet: Kyle Dawkins, Brian Smith, Phil Snyder, Jason Solomon, guitars
Pensacola Christian College, The Crowne Centre, Pensacola, FL

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
David Shostac, flute; Patricia Mabee, harpsichord; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Margaret Batjer, leader and violin
Royce Hall, Westwood, CA

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