Conductor Valery Gergiev is a hot commodity. He's one of the busiest conductors around, always in high demand. With four regular conducting gigs, he's been called the "hardest working man in show biz." Today we'll hear him conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in music from Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony from London's Barbican Hall.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Sergei Prokofiev: Allegretto from the Piano Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 82
Pianist Nikolai Lugansky
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Sinfonia in G Minor for Strings
Harpsichordist and conductor Jeanette Sorrell with Apollo's Fire
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Isaac Albeniz: "Torre Bermeja"
Guitarist Jason Vieaux
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 23
Pianist Denis Matsuev with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia and conductor Mark Gorenstein
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz from "Sleeping Beauty"
The Kirov Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
Leonard Bernstein: Selections from "Three Dance Episodes from On the Town"
The China Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Yang Yang
Beijing Music Festival, Beijing, China
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Three movements from the Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
The London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
Barbican Hall, London, England
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