Performance Today®

The way you start your day says a lot about you. For pianist Andras Schiff, it's almost always the same; he spends an hour or so playing music preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear Andras Schiff play Prelude and Fugue No. 24 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2.

Franz Schubert wrote a fantasy so demanding and difficult that he himself was unable to play it. Never fear... we'll hear from a pianist who can! On Monday's Performance Today, Juho Pohjonen gives a virtuoso performance of the Wanderer Fantasy in concert at the Music@Menlo Festival.

Meet our current PT Young Artist in Residence: violinist Maria Ioudenitch. On this weekend'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, Sarasate, and more.

Alexander Scriabin was not so much a composer as a musical metaphysician. He tried to create music with the power to change the world. Did he succeed? On Friday's Performance Today, we head to Warsaw for a rare performance of the Piano Concerto by the young Scriabin. Nick Canellakis guest-hosts.

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.

Violinist Maria Ioudenitch is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Maria joins Fred Child in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more about Maria Ioudenitch and hear her perform music by Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann, Sarasate, and more.

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.

Alan Page played in nine Pro Bowls with the Minnesota Vikings. He then served over twenty years as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Now, he has a performance with the Minnesota Orchestra under his belt. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Alan Page narrates "Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copland, from a concert in Minneapolis.

On Monday's Performance Today, hear a composition by Valerie Coleman named "Portraits of Josephine"... inspired by the life and times of one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th Century: Josephine Baker.