Get out your dancing shoes -- and a sword if you have one! On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll be dancing the Lezghinka, a traditional dance from the Caucasus, as we hear Simon Rattle conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in an explosive encore performance of Aram Khachaturian's Lezghinka.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Enrique Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Philharmonia Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
Herbert Von Karajan Conducts Orchestral Favourites III
EMI 69467
Zoltan Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Ludwig van Beethoven: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 103
Kevin Vigneau, oboe; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Alan Kay, clarinet; Mariam Adam, clarinet; William Purvis, French horn; Jeff Scott, French horn; Frank Morelli, bassoon; Monica Ellis, bassoon
Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
Enrique Granados: Twelve Spanish Dances: Andaluza
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Aspen Music Festival, Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford": 3. Minuetto-Allegretto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor
Symphonies Nos. 88-92; Sinfonia concertante
EMI Classics 94237
Claude Debussy: Six Epigraphes antiques for 4 hands
Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Wu Han, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, CA
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E, Op. 22
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Willi Zimmerman, concertmaster
Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Aram Khachaturian: Lezghinka, from Gayaneh
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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