On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll go to Houston to hear the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give an energetic performance of Mozart's Haffner Symphony. Plus, flutist Emmanuel Pahud plays Sergei Prokofiev's Flute Sonata in concert in Barcelona, Spain.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Fuga elegiaca: Preludio: Agitato e tremante; Fuga: Moderato e mesto
Brasil Guitar Duo
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2
Naxos 570779
George Frederic Handel: Concerto a due cori in F, HWV 333
Petra Mullejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin, conductor; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Concert Hall, Freiburg, Germany
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, "Haffner"
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Robert Moody, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX
Gioachino Rossini (arr. Carl Czerny): Overture to The Barber of Seville
Andre-Michel Schub, piano; Anna Petrova, piano; Josu de Solaun, piano
Virginia Arts Festival, Robin Hixon Theater, Norfolk, VA
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Figaro, a concert transcription after Rossini's Barber of Seville
Vadim Gluzman, violin; Angela Yoffee, piano
The Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society, Wolfe Recital Hall, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
Hour 2
Sergei Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119: 2. Moderato
Truls Mork, cello; Lars Vogt, piano
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev
Virgin 45274
Gyorgy Ligeti (arr. Guillaume Bourgogne): Six Bagatelles: 1. Allegro con spirto; 3. Allegro grazioso; 4. Presto ruvido; 6. Molto vivace. Capriccioso
Signum Saxophone Quartet
Schwetzingen Festival, Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen, Germany
Thomas Ades: Three Studies from Couperin
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, music director
Royce Hall, Westwood, CA
Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94
Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Eric Le Sage, piano
Oriol Martorell Hall, L'Auditori, Barcelona, Spain
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