On this weekend's Performance Today, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile will join Fred in the studio to co-host an hour of PT. He'll play some Bach, and talk about seeing his favorite Mahler symphony in concert. The musical enthusiasms of Chris Thile, on the next Performance Today.
On Friday's Performance Today, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile will join Fred in the studio to co-host an hour of PT. He'll play some Bach, and talk about seeing his favorite Mahler symphony in concert. The musical enthusiasms of Chris Thile, on the next Performance Today.
By it's very definition, a scherzo is a musical joke: spritely and playful. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a scherzo by Felix Mendelssohn that fits that definition exactly -- right down to a smirk. From a concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, we'll hear the scherzo from Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2.
Each week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We then get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. Play along with our Piano Puzzler, on Wednesday's Performance Today.
Tuesday's Performance Today features an all-star performance by players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; we'll hear some of the finest chamber musicians in the country play Ernst von Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet No. 1 from a concert they gave on tour in Athens, Georgia.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll drop in on a concert at Symphony Space in New York City to hear the Imani Winds playing an Afro-Cuban Concerto by their flutist, Valerie Coleman. And we'll hear a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 from a recent concert in Copenhagen.
On this weekend's Performance Today, we have music old and new from venues near and far, including a new composition for Passover by cantor and composer, Gerald Cohen. Plus, we'll hear a Brahms Symphony that was 20 years in the making.
On Friday's Performance Today, we have music old and new from venues near and far, including a new composition for Passover by cantor and composer, Gerald Cohen. Plus, we'll hear a Brahms Symphony that was 20 years in the making.
In many churches around the world, tonight marks one of the days of Tenebrae; the service of shadows. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a piece inspired by these religious services.
