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For 150 years, nobody was sure who wrote a particular, mysterious cello concerto. Then in 1951, the original manuscript was discovered...and it was clearly signed by Joseph Haydn. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear a cello concerto that's definitely by Haydn, played by cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Aspen Chamber Symphony.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 is a monumental work, and on Monday's Performance Today we will hear it from a gorgeous location; nestled right between the Cascade mountains and Puget Sound. The Eroica symphony, from a concert at the Bellingham Music Festival in Washington State.
Bruce Adolphe joins us every week with a musical game; our Piano Puzzler. On this weekend's PT, play along to see if you can guess the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating.
The Chinese lute, or pipa, has been around for more than two thousand years. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear a 21st century composition for pipa performed by Wu Man and the Buffalo Philharmonic.
On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Bruce Adolphe joins us every week with a musical game; our Piano Puzzler. On Wednesday's PT, play along to see if you can guess the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating.
He's still in his 20s, but conductor Joshua Weilerstein is already making a tremendous impression on orchestras and audiences around the world. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Weilerstein conduct the Danish National Orchestra in Copenhagen.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 is music of glorious contradictions. Delicate, with an undercurrent of aggression; full of both vivid light, and creeping shadow. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll take look back at the very definition of avant-garde, on the way from a recent concert in Lugano, Switzerland.
On this weekend's Performance Today, Fred's joined in the studio by a special guest: pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer Ben Folds. He'll pick out some of his favorite classical pieces, and introduce us to his new piano concerto.
