Poster Violinist Maria Ioudenitch
Violinist Maria Ioudenitch
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Maria Ioudenitch

Meet our current PT Young Artist in Residence: violinist Maria Ioudenitch. On Thursday's Performance Today, Maria joins Fred Child in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Get to know Maria Ioudenitch and hear her perform music by Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann, Pablo de Sarasate, and more.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Edward Elgar (arr. Zukerman & Neikrug): La Capricieuse, Op. 17
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano; Salut d'armour
Salut d'amour
Philips 416 158

Clara Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 22
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence; Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: Movement 4
Santiago Canon-Valencia, Cello; Sphinx Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Wilkins, conductor
The Sphinx Organization, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, MI

Peter Tchaikovsky (arr. Leopold Auer): Lensky's Aria
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence; Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Pablo de Sarasate: Introduction & Tarantella
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence; Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Hour 2

Richard Strauss: Couperin Dance Suite: Movements 1 & 8
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite / Couperin: Dance Suite
ASV 809

Richard Strauss: Sextet for Strings, from 'Capriccio', Op. 85
Ani Kavafian, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Matthew Lipman, viola; Nick Canellakis, cello; David Finckel, cello
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center & UGA; University of Georgia, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA

Fritz Kreisler: Recitative & Scherzo (solo)
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Alexander Glazunov: Grand Adagio from "Raymonda"
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Manuel de Falla (arr. Fritz Kreisler): Danza Espanola
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin; Ying Li, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Jean Sibelius: Kullervo: Kullervo Goes to War
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Jean Sibelius: Kullervo, Op. 7 - Olli Kortekangas: Migrations
Bis 9048

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