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Performance Today®

Emily Beynon

On Tuesday's Performance Today, we're going to the biggest classical music festival on the planet -- the BBC Proms in London -- to hear flutist Emily Beynon play a concerto by Carl Nielsen.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Cesar Franck: Panis Angelicus
Julian Lloyd Webber, cello; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
Cello Adagios
Decca 000233402

Cesar Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue, M.21
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

John Stevens: Autumn
Spanish Brass
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA

Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto, FS 119
Emily Beynon, flute; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Hour 2

Erich Korngold: Caprice fantastique (Wichtelmannchen)
Sonja van Beek, violin; Andreas Frolich, piano
Korngold; Complete Works for Violin and Piano
CPO 999709-2

Sir Edward German (arr. Sir Daniel E. Godfrey II): Welsh Rhapsody
United States Marine Band; Colonel Michael J. Colburn, conductor
Center for the Arts Concert Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Sergei Krylov, violin; Swiss Italian Orchestra; Juraj Valcuha, conductor
Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland

Claude Debussy: Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Haochen Zhang, piano
The Cliburn, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX

Claude Debussy: Feux d'artifice
Haochen Zhang, piano
The Cliburn, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX

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