What happens when you take an evocative piece for full orchestra and subtract the entire string section? The music is very much the same --- but altogether different. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear the US Marine Band play a string-less arrangement of Maurice Ravel's Spanish Rhapsody.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Francis Poulenc: Intermezzi
Pascal Roge, piano
Oeuvres pour piano
London 425862-2
Ernst von Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes, Op. 36
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata, FP 164
Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Eric Le Sage, piano
Oriol Martorell Hall, L'Auditon, Barcelona, Spain
Maurice Ravel (trans. Howard Bowlin): Rhapsodie espagnole
United States Marine Band; Major Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
Hour 2
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in c minor, Op. 101: 3. Andante grazioso
Beaux Arts Trio
Brahms: The Piano Trios
Philips 416 838
Enrique Soro: Danza fantastica
Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Kirsten Flagstad Hall, Culture Center, Hamar, Norway
Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84: 3. Andante - Allegro
Inon Barnatan, piano; Miro Quartet
Music@Menlo, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115: 1. Allegro; 3. Andantino; 4. Con moto
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Clara-Jumi Kang, violin; Svetlin Roussev, violin; Paul Silverthorne, viola; Luis Claret, cello
Great Mountains Music Festival, Alpensia Concert Hall, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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