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Performance Today®

Friend of Fred: Lemony Snicket

His fans call him Lemony Snicket. His parents call him Daniel, and they raised him on a diet of classical music. On this Friday's Performance Today, Lemony Snicket joins Fred in the studio with some of his favorite pieces of music.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Aaron Copland: Two movements from Latin American Sketches
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA

Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:32
Quatuor Ebene
Union College Concert Series, Memorial Chapel, Union College, Schenectady, NY

Hour 2

Gioacchino Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture
NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini, conductor
Rossini Overtures
RCA 60289

Arnold Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Heinz Holliger, conductor
Schonberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & Verklarte Nacht
Apex 44399

Bela Bartok: Contrasts, SZ 111: Verbunkos
Benny Goodman, clarinet; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Bela Bartok, piano
Benny Goodman Compositions and Collaborations
Sony 42227

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3: 6. What Love Tells Me
Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Svetlanov Mahler Symphony No. 3
Chant du Monde 288111

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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution.

Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.

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