Our week of performances by outstanding pianists continues with one of the masters. A thumb injury kept Murray Perahia from performing for several years, but now he's back on the concert stage. And he says that the music of Bach served as his therapy. Find out why critics are raving about his latest collection of Bach partitas when he plays one in Bethesda, Maryland.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Etudes No. 3 in F and No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 25
Pianist Murray Perahia
Nicolas Vallet: Courante, Ballet and "Carillon de village"
Lutenist Nigel North
Sundin Music Hall, St. Paul
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
Pianist Murray Perahia
The Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland
Richard Wagner: "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" from "Gotterdammerung"
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Mariss Jansons
Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: "Sie steigt herauf die Sonne" from "The Seasons"
Soprano Arleen Auger, tenor John Aler and baritone Hakan Hagegard with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joel Revzen
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gigue from French Suite No. 5, BWV 816
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
The Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Jean Sibelius: First and second movements from String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56 ("Intimate Voices")
Brooklyn Rider
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Erik Hokkanen: "Finnish Gypsies"
Brooklyn Rider
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D ("London")
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Douglas Boyd
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
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