There's a new PBS documentary about conductor Valery Gergiev called "Maestro." We'll meet up with the maestro in Amsterdam, where he'll lead the Rotterdam Philharmonic in Mozart's final (and arguably greatest) symphony, the "Jupiter." We'll also go to a recital in London, where the all-star team of violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis performs some duets by Reinhold Gliere.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66
The Kirov Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
Mikhail Glinka: Second movement from Trio Pathetique for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano in D Minor
Clarinetist Alan Kay, bassoonist Frank Morelli and pianist Jonathan Feldman
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City
Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Reinhold Gliere: "Canzonetta" and "Scherzo" from Duets, Op. 39
Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Alexander Glazunov: "Melodie" from Two Pieces, Op. 20
Cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Olli Mustonen
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March No. 1 in D, K. 335
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Ned Rorem: "Paris Then"
Clarinetist Todd Palmer and pianist Charles Wadsworth
Spoleto USA Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
Francis Poulenc: Second movement from Sonata for Piano Four-hands, 1918
Samuel Sanders and Charles Wadsworth, pianists
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 ("Jupiter")
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Giora Feidman: "Ballad for Klezmer"
The State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus with conductor Ingo Ernst Rajl
Grand Concert Hall, Minsk, Belarus
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