Robert Schumann wrote a remarkable Arabesque for solo piano, but he certainly wasn't the only composer to use the title Arabesque. We'll hear Yefim Bronfman play the Schumann, in concert in New York as well as Arabesques by two other composers on Monday's Performance Today from APM.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Images for Orchestra - II. Iberia - Le Matin d'un jour de fete
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Niccolo Paganini: 24 Capricci for violin solo, Op. 1 - No. 6 in g minor - Lento
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
Francois Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin, Book 3, Ordre 15 in a minor/A Major - "Musette de Taverny"
Edwin Swanborn, harpsichord; Robert Stallman, flute; Karl Bennion, cello
Claude Debussy: La Mer
New York Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Marin Marais: L'Arabesque
Ensemble 1700; Dorothee Oberlinger, director
Herne Early Music Days Festival, Mont-Cenis Academy, Herne, Germany
Robert Schumann: Arabesque, in C major, Op. 18
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 2
Marya Martin, flute; Emmanuel Ceysson, harp; Adela Pena and Axel Strauss, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Wilhelmina Smith, cello
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Hour 2
Robert Schumann (arr. Mahler): Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 - Rhenish, III. Nicht Schnell
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Ysaye Barnwell: No Mirrors in My Nana's House
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul MN
Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts from American Songs
Joann Falletta, conductor; Robert Shoup, chorusmaster; Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
Giovanni Battista Sammartin: Symphony in D Major, JC 14
Marcello Scandelli, director and first cello; Milano Classica
First Baptist Church, Savannah, GA
Max Bruch: Romance in F Major for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85
Janine Jansen, viola; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Janine Jansen, violin; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
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