Poster Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1960-1941)
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Pianist and Prime Minister

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a dashing, virtuosic pianist around the turn of the 20th century. And later, he was the Prime Minister of Poland. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear his Piano Concerto No. 1 from a concert in his hometown of Warsaw.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Robert Schumann: Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68 1. Melodie; 2. Soldatenmarsch; 3. Trallerliedchen; 5. Stuckchen; 18. Schnitterliedchen
Daniel Levy, piano
Schumann, Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68; Daniel Levy, piano
Nimbus 5219

Ghazaros Saryan: Passacaglia
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Sergey Smbatyan, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor, "Elegiaque"
Atos Trio
The Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL

Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129
Brinton Averil Smith, cello; Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX

Hour 2

Alexander Glazunov: String Quartet No. 5: Movement 2
St. Petersburg String Quartet
St. Petersburg Quartet
Delos 3262

George Frederic Handel: Concerto a due cori in F, HWV 334
Petra Mullejans, violin; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin, conductor
Concert Hall, Freiburg, Germany

Ignacy Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17: Movement 1
Nelson Goerner, piano; Warsaw Phiharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor
Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition, Concert Hall, Philharmonic, Warsaw, Poland

Alexander Glazunov (arr. Frederick Hemke): Canzona and Variations, from Saxophone Quartet, Op. 109
Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Rochester Chamber Music Society, Christ United Methodist Church, Rochester, MN

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