Beethoven was 17 when he began work on what would become his first major orchestral piece, his Piano Concerto in B-flat. When he was 21, he took it along when he moved to the big city of Vienna. He kept working on it, and, four years later, he played the concerto at his official coming-out party - his public debut as a pianist in Vienna. On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll hear the first piano concerto Beethoven started, but not the first one he finished.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in A-flat, Opus 32, No. 2
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Franz Liszt /Felix Mendelssohn: Variations on Wedding March
Arcadi Volodos, piano
Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Fragments in Ab Major, Op. Post
Arcadi Volodos, piano
Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Edward Elgar: La Capricieuse
Nai-Yuan Hu, violin; Alain Jacquon, piano
Newport Music Festival, Newport, RI
Henryk Wieniawski: Capriccio-Valse
Nai-Yuan Hu, violin; Alain Jacquon, piano
Newport Music Festival, Newport, RI
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb, Op. 19
Maurizio Pollini, piano; Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in E minor, BWV 996 - II. Allemande, III. Courante
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 29, No. 2
Angel Fire Strings
Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
PT Young Artist-in-Residence: Jordan Dodson, Guitar
Giulio Regondi: Notturno, Op. 19 "Reverie"
Jordan Dodson, guitar
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio , St. Paul, MN
Ludwig Maurer: Five Pieces
American Brass Quintet
St. Paul's by the Sea Episcopal Church, Jacksonville Beach, FL
Will Gregory: High Life
Ancia Saxophone Quartet: Mathew Sintchak, soprano saxophone; Joan Hutton, alto saxophone; David Milne, tenor saxophone; Angela Wyatt, baritone saxophone
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN
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