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Dmitri Shostakovich hid some musical cryptograms in the 3rd movement of his Symphony No. 10, but it remained a secret until the 1990's. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and we'll decipher his code.
It's one of the great showpieces for violin, played by one of the finest violin soloists of our time. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear violinist Janine Jansen and the Oslo Philharmonic give an extraordinary performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major.
Christina and Michelle Naughton are identical twins. They began taking piano lessons when they were 4 years old, and one could say they took it pretty seriously...they now tour the world as duo piano partners. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Christina and Michelle Naughton perform Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, in a performance from the Grand Teton Music Festival.
David Bruce wrote Cymbeline in 2013 for mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital, and it's a PT listener favorite. On Monday's Performance Today, hear Avi Avital and the Dover Quartet play Cymbeline at a concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Nick Canellakis guest hosts.
Rachel Barton Pine is much more than a fine violinist. She has some concerns about the future of classical music in American society, and she's doing something about it. On this weekend's Performance Today, Rachel Barton Pine joins us in the studio and tells us about the next big phase of her career.
Rachel Barton Pine is much more than a fine violinist. She has some concerns about the future of classical music in American society, and she's doing something about it. On Friday's Performance Today, Rachel Barton Pine joins us in the studio and tells us about the next big phase of her career.
Rachel Barton Pine is so much more than a violin soloist. This October, she is seeing the start of the next phase of her enormous, 15-year project that adds to her brand publisher, researcher, advocate and educator.
A few years ago, composer Osvaldo Golijov was in Israel and witnessed the effects of a wave of violence. A few weeks later, he found himself viewing images of our blue planet at a planetarium show in New York City. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear music inspired by contrasting perspectives: Tenebrae, by Osvaldo Golijov.
When Claude Debussy wrote music for the ballet "Jeux," he was picturing a game of tennis between two women and one young man. In tennis, "love" means nothing; in Debussy's music, 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.
