Performance Today®

The Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) have become widely known and sought-after for playing Baroque music with period instruments. On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear members of the BCJ perform a flute sonata by J. S. Bach, featuring Kiyomi Suga on baroque wood flute.

The 5 Browns have a goal of introducing classical music to a wider, more diverse audience. They perform in various combinations, from duos to complex five-piano arrangements. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear The 5 Browns perform an arrangement of The Planets by Gustav Holst, from a concert in Athens, Georgia.

Mozart Guarnieri's father was an opera buff who named his kids after composers... his brothers were named Rossine and Verde. On Monday's Performance today, take a seat at Lincoln Center for a performance of "Three Dances for Orchestra" by Brazilian composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri.

In 2013, Pianist and composer Tatev Amiryan wrote an engaging work for solo piano, inspired by Armenian folk music. On the weekend edition of Performance Today, hear Amiryan perform her composition, Ortus, at a concert in Kansas City.

A month after he became a U.S. citizen, composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his Symphony in Three Movements. The New York Philharmonic premiered the piece in 1946; on Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear a much more recent performance by that same ensemble.

When cellist Raphael Bell was younger, he didn't like music by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. On Thursday's Performance Today, learn more about Bohuslav Martinu and why Raphael Bell now loves his music.

In 2013, Pianist and composer Tatev Amiryan wrote an engaging work for solo piano, inspired by Armenian folk music. On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear Amiryan perform her composition, Ortus, at a concert in Kansas City.

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason had been planning to be in Los Angeles this past weekend. He was going to make his American concert debut, playing with the L.A. Chamber Orchestra, but he gave it up for a wedding gig... the British royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear Sheku Kanneh-Mason's performance at the ceremony, alongside conductor Christopher Warren-Green and an all-star British orchestra.

After fighting in the Austrian army during the first World War, composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler moved to the US, where, initially, he did not receive a warm welcome. Kreisler missed his home in Vienna, and he wrote that sense of longing into music. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear his String Quartet in A minor, from a live performance at the Music@Menlo festival.