For decades, orchestras have used specific Parisian taxi horns in George Gershwin's An American in Paris. But new scholarship says those are the wrong notes! On Monday's Performance Today, we'll ponder taxi horn intonation and enjoy a great performance of this piece by the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jean-Phillippe Rameau: Suite from Pygmalion
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, conductor
Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia, PA
David Balakrishnan: Alex in A Major
Turtle Island Quartet
Second Inversion, KING FM Studios, Seattle, WA
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Hour 2
Frederic Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise in C, Op. 3
Steven Isserlis, cello; Denes Varjon, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Witold Lufoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Jean Francaix: Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon: Movements 1-2
Linda Chesis, flute; James Roe, oboe; Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet; Adrian Morejon, bassoon
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27: Movements 3-4
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Rheingau Music Festival, Friedrich von Thiersch Hall, Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany
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