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Performance Today for Tuesday, May 21, 2013

This month, soprano Deborah Voigt has been on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing the role of Brunhilde in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. We asked Voigt what Wagner's music means to her as a singer. Her first answer was "LONG," but her second answer showed how she really feels. "You will constantly discover things in Wagner's music that you didn't hear" the first or even fifth time, she said. "It's just so rich." Deborah Voigt talks about the composer who is about to celebrate his 200th anniversary on Tuesday's Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Gabriel Faure: Souvenirs of Bayreuth (for piano 4-hands)
Jean-Philippe Collard, Bruno Rigutto, piano

Tan Dun: Eight Memories in Watercolor - Staccato Beans, Floating Clouds, Sunrain
Manuel Barrueco, guitar; Meng Su, guitar; Yameng Wang, guitar
92nd Street Y, Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall

Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas

Jean Francaix: L'horloge de flore (The Flower Clock)
Joseph Robinson, Oboe; Bellingham Festival Orchestra; Michael Palmer, conductor
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Bellingham, WA

Hour 2

Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Claude Debussy, arr. Raaf Hekkema: Children's Corner, arranged for reed quintet
Calefax Reed Quintet - Oliver Boekhoorn, oboe; Ivar Berix, clarinet; Raaf Hekkema, saxophone; Jelte Althuis, bass clarinet; Alban Wesly, bassoon
Falany Performing Arts Center, Reinhardt University Waleska, GA

PT Young Artist-in-Residence: Timothy Kantor, violin

Bela Bartok: Sonata for Violin - I. Tempo di ciaccona
Timothy Kantor, violin
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Richard Wagner: Hojotoho from Die Walkure
Deborah Voigt, soprano; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor

Richard Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California

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