On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll head to a concert in Switzerland to hear the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra play one of the great tragic love stories told in music: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: Meditation, Op. 72, No. 5
Andres Diaz, cello; Samuel Sanders, piano
Russian Romantics For 'cello And Piano
Dorian 90188
Peter Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture after Shakespeare
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Zurich Festival, Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Billy Brown from Albuquerque, NM
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola Da Gamba and Keyboard No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1027
David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
Rockport Music Festival, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Hour 2
Alexander Scriabin: Two Etudes: C-sharp minor, F-sharp minor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Alexander Scriabin - The Complete Etudes
Bridge 9287
Hajime Komatsu: Four Japanese Folksongs for String Quartet, Suite 2: 2. Nanbu Ushioi Uta; 3. Otemoyan; 4. Aizu Bandaisan
Apollo Chamber Players: Matthew Detrick, violin; Anabel Ramirez, violin; Whitney Bullock, viola; Matthew Dudzik, cello
Christ the King Lutheran Church, Parish Hall, Houston, TX
Charles Ives: In the Barn
Ruggero Allifranchini, violin, Jeremy Denk, piano
Ordway Music Theater, St. Paul, MN
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D iminor, Op. 30: Movements 2 and 3
Garrick Ohlsson, piano; Grand Teton Festival Orchestra; Donald Runnicles, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk FestivalHall, Teton Village, WY
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