Every year conductor Charles Dutoit goes to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This year's trip was memorable; he conducted Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel, and did it during an earthquake. We'll hear that performance and more on Monday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Maurice Ravel: Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds)
Marius Van Paassen, piano
The Animal In The 20th Century Piano Music
Attacca Babel 8950
Gustav Mahler: Quartet in a for Piano and Strings
Curtis Macomber, violin; Nancy Buck, viola; Emilio Colon, cello; Eteri Andjaparidze, piano
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe: Movements 1-6
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Charles Dutoit, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
William Byrd: Firste Pavan
Andreas Borregaard, accordion
Mazovia Goes Baroque, Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Hour 2
Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119, No. 1
Joyce Yang, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society (Live)
MPR 091108
Maurice Durufle: Prelude, Recitative and Variations, Op. 3
Susan Rotholz, flute; Toby Appel, viola; John Novacek, piano
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Packard Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso in d, Op. 6, No. 10, Movements 1-5
Alina Ibragimova, violin, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2: Movements 3 & 4
NDR Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Johannes Brahms: Lullaby (Cradle Song)
Daniell Revenaugh, piano
EMI 54129
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