Russian pianist Irina Nuzova says that even though Sergei Rachmaninoff moved away from Russia, his music was always fundamentally Russian. "You can always hear in his every note, every melody," she said, "where he comes from. That his heart was there." On Monday's Performance Today Irina Nuzova and Wendy Warner join Fred Child to talk about, and to play Romantic Russian music for cello and piano.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
David Popper: Im Walde, Op. 50 - IV. Reigen, V. Herbstblume
Wendy Warner, cello; Eileen Buck, piano
Pedro Gutierrez: Alma Llanera (encore)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
In studio with Wendy Warner and Irina Nuzova
Alexander Scriabin: Etude Op, 8. No. 11
Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN
Nikolai Miaskovsky: Sonata No. 2 in a minor, Op. 81 - I. Allegro moderato
Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in g minor, Op. 19 - II. Allegro scherzando
Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN
Gioacchino Rossini: Sinfonia, from "The Barber of Seville" (Encore)
German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Karel Mark Chicon, conductor
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Waltz
New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor
George Enescu: Cantabile e Presto
Paula Robison, flute; Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Ouverture III in C - I. Ouveture, II. Air, III. Bourree, IV. Lentement, V. Menuet, VI. Courante, VIII. Gavotte, XI. La Rejoissance
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players
Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, Philadelphia, PA
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathetique - I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo - Andante - Allegro vivo, IV. Adagio lamentoso - Andante
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York, NY
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