We're broadcasting from Los Angeles today, kicking off a week that will feature a performance a day by the L.A. Philharmonic, as well as conversations with music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and some of the orchestra's musicians. Today, Salonen leads them in Haydn's "Bear" Symphony and a piece by Alexander Mossolov at Disney Hall.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johannes Brahms: Andantino un poco agitato from Intermezzo in E Minor, Op. 119, No. 2
Pianist Emanuel Ax
Erwin Schulhoff: Tarantella
The Vilnius String Quartet
Occidental Community Church, Occidental, California
Francesco da Milano: Saltarello: Il Pescatore che va cantando
Lutenist Hopkinson Smith
Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, Cooperstown, New York
Francesco Mancini: Sonata Sesta in D
Rebel
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Johannes Brahms: Second, third and fourth movements from Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
The Dresden Philharmonic with conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Astor Piazzolla: "Oblivion"
Guitarist JoAnn Falletta, flutist Debra Wendells Cross and clarinetist Robert Alemany
Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, Virginia
Enrique Granados: Arabesca - Danse espagnole No. 12
Guitarist JoAnn Falletta, flutist Debra Wendells Cross and clarinetist Robert Alemany
Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, Virginia
Hour 2
Dag Wiren: March from "Serenade for Strings"
The Stockholm Sinfoniette with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Leo Delibes: Pizzicati from "Sylvia"
Pianist Stephen Hough
Gates Hall, Denver
Olivier Messiaen: "Praise to the Immortality of Jesus" from "Quartet for the End of Time"
Violinist Jorja Fleezanis and pianist Gilbert Kalish
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, California
Giulio Caccini: Aria di Romanesca: "Torna, deh torna"
Countertenor Drew Minter
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Alexander Mossolov: "Iron Foundry"
The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 ("The Bear")
The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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