Rafal Blechacz is a young pianist from Poland who loves to play music by a composer from Poland: Frederic Chopin. We'll hear recently named 2014 Gilmore Artist Rafal Blechacz play Chopin and much more on this weekend's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major: 2. Scherzo: Allegro
Takacs Quartet
Borodin String Quartets
London/Decca 452239
Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major for Winds, Op. 7, TrV 106
Ransom Wilson, flute; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Bram Van Sambeek, b
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, New York, NY
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Mary Elfner from Richmond, VA
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Magnificat in D Major, H. 772, Wq. 215: 1. Magnificat; 2. Quia Respexit; 4. Et misericordia ejus; 5. Fecit potentiam; 8. Gloria
Elizabeth Watts, soprano; Wiebke Lehmkuhl, contralto; Lothar Odinius, tenor; Markus Eiche, bass; Rias Chamber Chorus; Florian Helgath, director
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Hour 2
Frederic Chopin: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45, "Sostenuto"
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Chopin: The Complete Preludes
DG 10870
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in g minor for cello and piano, Op. 19: 2. Allegro scherzando
Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, MPR, St. Paul, MN
Anonymous: The Canary
Ida Kavafian, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Peter Wiley, cello; David Shifrin, clarinet; Amy J. Yang, piano
OK Mozart Festival, Bartlesville Community Center, Bartlesville, OK
Frederic Chopin: Waltz (Valse Brillant) in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
Frederic Chopin: "Military" Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40, No. 1
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3: 2. Largo
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2, No. 2: 3. Scherzo
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311: 1. Allegro con spirito
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, WQXR, New York, NY
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