Years ago, pianist Jeremy Denk was a PT Young Artist in Residence. Since then, he's gone on to have a stellar career, including receiving a MacArthur Genius Grant and concert appearances around the world. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Denk in concert with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra playing music by Mozart.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll take you to a concert in New York City to hear pianist Emanuel Ax and the New York Philharmonic play Brahms' dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us with this week's Piano Puzzler.
Gustav Mahler got over a bad breakup, in part, by writing his Symphony No. 1. He confided to a friend: "The music begins where the love affair ends." On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll Mahler's First from a concert by the Cincinnati Symphony.
The first time Johannes Brahms wrote his Piano Quintet, a violinist said it didn't quite work. The second time, Brahms' friend Clara Schumann said nope, still not right. But the third time was a charm. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear take three of Brahms' Piano Quintet in concert from Bergen, Norway.
On this weekend's Performance Today, we've got a PT listener favorite: Cymbeline, by composer David Bruce. We'll hear it performed by mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and the Dover Quartet in Savannah, Georgia.
On Friday's Performance Today, we've got a PT listener favorite: Cymbeline, by composer David Bruce. We'll hear it performed by mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and the Dover Quartet in Savannah, Georgia.
In 1930, composer Maurice Ravel wrote a special concerto for a pianist who had lost his right arm during the First World War. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear pianist Kirill Gerstein play that piece; Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand.
Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a great composer. Then, one of our listeners calls in and tries to guess two things: the tune, and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Play along with our weekly musical game, on Wednesday's Performance Today.
Today is French composer Erik Satie's 150th birthday. In celebration, we'll hear pieces composed by Satie, and pieces that he inspired. Plus, pianist David Kadouch will share his take on Satie's legacy.
