Conductor Riccardo Chailly has a Mendelssohn discovery; a hand-written sketch of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, which had gone unnoticed for almost 20 years. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Chailly will take us inside Mendelssohn's creative process.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Gabriel Faure: Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13: 4. Allegro quasi presto
Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
Paris La Belle Epoque - Faure, Massenet, / Ma, Stott
Sony 87287
Darius Milhaud: Suite Francaise
University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, conductor
Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet in E minor: 2. Andantino; 3. Prestissimo
Afiara String Quartet: Valerie Li, violin; Yuri Cho, violin; David Samuel, viola; Adrian Fung, cello
Montreal Chamber Music Festival, St. James United Church, Montreal, Canada
Gabriel Faure: Dolly Suite, Op. 56
Anna Petrova, piano; Josu de Solaun, piano
Virginia Arts Festival, Trinity Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, VA
Hour 2
Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 1
London Sinfonietta; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale Suite, Divertimento
London/Decca 417114
Traditional: Dulaman
Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings, conductor
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Traditional Norwegian: Solbonn
Birger Mistereggen, percussion; Linn Andrea Fuglseth, voice; Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN
Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Christian Voss): Opening Sketch Of "Scottish" Symphony
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Mendelssohn Discoveries
Decca 4781525
Felix Mendelssohn: "Scottish" Symphony No. 3 in A Minor
Antje Weithaas, violin; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Mendelssohn Discoveries
Decca 4781525
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Siloti): Prelude in b minor, BWV 855a
Eduard Kunz, piano
Van Cliburn Competition, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
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