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A massive, ambitious piece of music

Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto is a massive, ambitious piece of music for full orchestra, 48 male singers, and a really, really good pianist. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Warsaw, featuring Garrick Ohlsson and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Samuel Barber: Adagio from String Quartet, Op. 11
Italian Saxophone Quartet
Beaches Fine Arts Jacksonville, St. Paul's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, FL

Ferruccio Busoni: Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and Male Choir, Op. 39: Movements 4-5
Garrick Ohlsson, piano; Warsaw Phiharmonic Orchestra; Wojciech Rajski, conductor
Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition, Concert Hall, Philharmonic, Warsaw, Poland

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 102/1
Truls Mork, cello; Jan Lisiecki, piano
Verbier Festival, Verbier Church, Verbier, Switzerland

Hour 2

Robert Schumann: Arabeske, Op. 18
Anna Polonsky, piano
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Civic Center, Windham, NY

Carter Pann: Extension of My Eye (Le Tombeau d'Henri Cartier-Bresson)
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Alastair Willis, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX

Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Strings Festival Orchestra; Andres Cardenes, conductor
Strings Music Festival, Strings Music Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, CO

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