Every year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is set aside to commemorate the millions of lives stolen during World War II. On Wednesday's Performance Today we will honor the day with a symphony by a composer who lost his life in Auschwitz; Marcel Tyberg's The Symphony No. 3.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob.I:101, "The Clock": Finale: Vivace
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. 2
Philips 442614
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Variations for Five, Quintet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos
Amphion String Quartet: Katie Hyun, David Southorn, violins; Andy Lin, viola; Mihai Marica, Nicolas Altstaedt, cellos
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Scott Hollopeter from Grand Blanc, MI
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 26 in d minor, Hob.I:26, "Lamentatione"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Stefan Solyom, conductor
Concerto Hall, University, Oslo, Norway
Hour 2
Olivier Messiaen: Concert a quatre: 2. Vocalise
Catherine Cantin, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Yvonne Loriod, piano; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille; Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Messiaen Concert a Quatre
Deutsche Grammophon 445947
Erich Korngold: Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15: 1. Massiges Zeitmass
Stephen Prutsman, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
William Dreyfoos: Songs of the Holocaust: 2. Close Your Little Eyes; 4. From The Twig A Tree Will Bloom
Margaret Kelly Cook, soprano; William Baker Festival Singers of Atlanta; Dr. William O. Baker, conductor
The Circular Church, Charleston, SC
Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 3: Movements 2-4
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 3, Piano Trio
Naxos 572236
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