Trolls, goblins, and gnomes. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll join them all in the Hall of the Mountain King, when we hear Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite performed at the Artosphere Festival. Then, we'll head to New York to hear two special pieces: one old, one new...but both blue.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Carl Nielsen: Woodwind Quintet, Op. 43: 2. Menuet
Susan Rotholz, flute; Elaine Douvas, oboe; Joaquin Valdepenas, clarinet; Stefanie Przybylska, bassoon; Robin Graham, horn
Barber: Summer Music and Nielsen: Woodwind Quintet
Sony 46250
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Courtney Hershey Bress, harp; Claude Sim, violin; Monique Mead, violin; Karen Dirks, viola; David Hardy, cello; Demarre McGill, flute
Strings Music Festival, Strings Music Pavillion, Steamboat Springs, CO
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15, D. 760, "Wanderer"
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo, Atherton, CA
Franz Schubert (arr. Dan Graser): Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703
Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet
Rockport Music Festival, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Carl Nielsen: Overture to An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands
Baltic Sea Youth Orchestra; Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Hour 2
George Gershwin (arr. Brad Dechter): Someone To Watch Over Me
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Artosphere Festival Orchestra; Corrado Rovaris, conductor
Artosphere Festival, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
Gerald Cohen: Variously Blue
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Jennifer Choi, violin; Alexandra Joan, piano
le poisson rouge, New York, NY
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Eldar Djangirov, piano
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Civic Centre, Windham, NY
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