Violinist Joshua Bell says that playing for an audience is not about playing the notes in a composition. it's about connecting with everybody in the room, creating a shared emotional experience. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Joshua Bell play Violin Concerto No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saens, recorded live at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: Danse Russe from Swan Lake, Op. 20: Act III
Joshua Bell, violin; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Sony 94832
Nikita Koshkin: Suite for Four Guitars
Georgia Guitar Quartet
Pensacola Christian College, The Crowne Centre, Pensacola, FL
Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61
Joshua Bell, violin; Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra; Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
2016 Verbier Festival, Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor
Maria Joao Pires, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: Sonata in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 43: Movement 3
Emanuel Ax, piano
Haydn Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35, 4
Sony 89363
Michel Blavet: Concerto No. 4 in A Minor for flute, 2 violins and basso continuo
Barthold Kuijken, Baroque flute; Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra; Barthold Kuijken, conductor
Ruth Lilly Performance Hall at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, Indianapolis, IN
Camille Saint-Saens: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix, from 'Samson and Delilah'
Mischa Maisky, cello; Lily Maisky, piano
Stelio Molo Auditorium RSI, Lugano, Switzerland
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 40, H. I/40
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Christian Zacharias, conductor
SPCO, Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN
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