French composer Gabriel Faure spent five weeks on vacation in Venice. The feel and mood and music of the city, though, stayed with him. Over the next several decades, he wrote 20 pieces inspired by Venice. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear one of those pieces, a musical image of the famous gondolas.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Camille Saint-Saens: Une Nuit a Lisbonne (A Night in Lisbon), Op. 63
Orchestre Symphonique Francais; Laurent Petitgirard, conductor
Album: Saint-Saens; Adda 590064
Francois Couperin: Concerto No. 9, 'Ritratto dell'amore" - VIII. L'Et Caetera Ou Menuets
Peter Sykes, harpsichord; Carol Ou, cello; Fenwick Smith, flute
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Gabriel Faure: Barcarolle No. 13 in C Major, op. 116
Alessio Bax, piano
The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78, "Organ"
Kent Tritle, organ; New York Philharmonic; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, NY
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Epistle Sonata in C major KV 329
2 violins, cello, bass, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, organ; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Andrew Parrott, conductor
Album: DENON 9573
Igor Stravinsky: Madrid from Four Etudes
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
Album: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Live Stravinsky Pulcinella/Symphony in Three Movements/Four Etudes; CSO Resound 901918
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Alessio Bax, piano; Ian Swensen, violin
The Center for the Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, California
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in b minor, K. 540
Christian Zacharias, piano
Grand Theatre-Polish National Opera Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Carter Pann: Mercury Concerto (flute concerto - world premiere)
Christina Jennings, flute; River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Alastair Willis, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX
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