On Monday's Performance Today we'll meet Xiang Yu, our newest Artist in Residence. This violinist grew up in Inner Mongolia, moved to Shanghai at age 11, then to Boston to study at the New England Conservatory in his late teens. Xiang Yu told Fred Child that even though he pressured himself to study music intensely at a young age, his parents were not Asian tiger parents. "More like cow mom and sheep dad," he said. His parents just wanted him to be happy. Xiang Yu will perform music by Bach in the PT studios.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 56, No. 3 in E-flat major
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
George Frideric Handel: Sonata in A major, Op. 1, No. 3, HWV 361
Nathan Milstein, violin; George Pludermacher, piano
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
Niccolo Paganini: Caprice for violin solo in B-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 13 - Allegro
Nathan Milstein, violin
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes, from the Opera Peter Grimes Op. 33
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Ludwig von Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 - IV. Allegro con brio
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 485
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Musikhalle/Laeiszhalle, Grosser Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Moritz Moszkowski: Etincelles, Op. 36 no. 6
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Musikhalle/Laeiszhalle, Grosser Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Hour 2
Johan Halvorsen (arr. Fennell): Entry March of the Boyars
Dallas Wind Symphony; Frederick Fennell, conductor
Antonio Estevez: Mediodia en el llano (Noon on the Prairie)
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Sao Paulo Concert Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PT Young Artist-in-Residence: Xiang Yu, violin
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita in D minor BWV 1004 --IV. Chaconne
Xiang Yu, violin
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio
Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-flat
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, artistic director and conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX
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