Pianist Sergio Tiempo put on a jaw-dropping display at the International Chopin Festival in Warsaw, and the audience went nuts. We'll hear his three encores as they happened, each more astonishing than the last. Finishing with Tiempo's own arrangement: one Chopin Etude with his right hand, and *another* with his left, simultaneously. Sounds impossible, but he did it, and the audience literally screamed, shouted, and stomped their approval.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: (trans. Tchaikovsky): Nocturne, Op. 19 in D minor
Nina Kotova, cello; Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor
Traditional: Pipa Solo (encore)
Wu Man, pipa; Moscow Soloists
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Joaquin Rodrigo: Zapateado, from Tres piezas espanolas
Yang Xuefei, guitar
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA
Yatsuhashi Kengyo: Hachidan no shirabe, for koto
Makiko Goto, koto (solo); From a concert with the WDR Radio Chorus; Rupert Huber, conductor
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Camille Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto in a minor, Op. 33; Allegro non troppo-Allegretto con moto-Allegro non troppo
Nina Kotova, cello; Russian National Orchestra; Nicola Luisotti, conductor
Lincoln Theater; Napa Valley
Alberto Ginastera: Danza del Gaucho Matrero, from "Danzas Argentinas," op. 2 (encore)
Traditional: Joropo, typical Venezuelan dance (encore)
Fryderyk Chopin: Etude in G sharp minor, op. 25, no. 6 (right hand); Etude in C minor, op. 10, no. 12 (left hand) (encore)
Sergio Tiempo, piano
Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Hour 2
Edward Elgar: La Capricieuse, Op. 17
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano
W.A. Mozart: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Maxim Vengerox, conductor
Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
Michael Daugherty: Ladder to the Moon; I. Night, New York / II. Looking up
Ann McIntyre, violin; James Tapia, conductor
Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29, "Storm"
Zukerman Chamberplayers
92nd Street Y, Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall, NYC
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