With winter coming to a close and spring beginning to loom (or bloom) on the horizon, there's often a big clean-up that has to take place. So on this weekend's Performance Today, we'll help out with a special piece by Malcolm Arnold: his Grand Grand Overture for Vacuum Cleaners, Floor Polisher, and Concert Band.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat: 3. Allegro
Mark Bennett, trumpet; English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Really Mad about the Classics
DG 445770
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12
Nicola Benedetti, violin; Alexei Grynyuk, piano
Schwetzingen Festival, Jagdsaal, Schwetzingen, Germany
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Lauren Cason from Greenville, SC
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Hour 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: 5 Variations on "Rule Britannia" in D, WoO 79
Melvyn Tan, fortepiano
The Beethoven Broadwood Fortepiano
EMI 54526
Gioacchino Rossini:: Duetto in D Major for Cello and Double Bass
Bion Tsang, cello; DaXun Zhang, double bass
Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95, "Serioso"
Danish String Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Malcolm Arnold: A Grand Grand Overture: For Three Vacuum Cleaners, One Floor Polisher, and Concert Band, Op. 57
United States Marine Band; Colonel Michael J. Colburn, conductor
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
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