When Claude Debussy wrote the music for the ballet "Jeux", he was picturing a game of tennis between two women and one man. In a tennis score, "love" means zero, but in Debussy's score, love is everything. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear romance and seduction on the courts, from a concert by the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Dances for Harp and String Orchestra: 2. Danse Profane
Vera Badings, harp; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
Debussy: Orchestral Music
Philips 438 742
Georg Philipp Telemann: Burlesque de Quichotte: Movements 1-7
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, artistic directors
Philadelphia, PA
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is David Hempling from San Francisco, CA
Claude Debussy: Jeux
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Hour 2
Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 1
London Sinfonietta; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale Suite, Divertimento
London/Decca 417114
Isaac Albeniz: Selections from Suite Espanola, Op. 47: Movements 3, 5, 7
Angela Hewitt, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Rachel Grimes: Suite of Airs
Rachel Grimes, conductor and piano; Scott Moore, violin; Christian Frederickson, viola; Jacob Duncan, tenor Saxophone
Classical 90.5, Performance Studio of Louisville Public Media, Louisville, KY
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra; Andrew Altenbach, conductor
Lakes Area Music Festival, Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd, MN
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