Poster Simone Porter
Simone Porter at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles.
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Performance Today®

Simone Porter

On Tuesday's Performance Today, 20-year-old violinist Simone Porter joins us to perform a piece which she describes as a journey through the five stages of grief: Ernest Bloch's Nigun.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Francis Poulenc: Album de Six and Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel selections
French National Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor
Poulenc: Aubade - Las Biches
London 452937

Paul Dukas: La Peri
Texas Festival Orchestra; Perry So, conductor
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B-flat
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano; String Theory 5
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Maureen Reyes: Mas Alla de la Verdad
Matthew Detrick, violin; Anabel Ramirez, violin; Whitney Bullock, viola; Matthew Dudzik, cello
Apollo Chamber Players, Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH), Houston, TX

Hour 2

Gustav Mahler (arr. Claudius Tanski): Songs of a Wayfarer: 2. I went this morning over a field
Claudius Tanski, piano
Auf flugeln des Gesganges
Dabringhaus 9121489

Ernest Bloch: Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Hassidic Life: 2. Nigun (Improv)
Simone Porter, violin; Meng-Chieh Liu, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studios, St. Paul, MN

York Bowen: Horn Quintet in C minor, Op. 85
Gail Williams, horn; Ralph Matson, violin; Barbara Scowcroft, violin; Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Daniel Laufer, cello
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY

Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet
Wu Han, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello
Mozart@Augsburg Festival, Small Golden Hall, Town Hall, Augsburg, Germany

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