The Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven was revolutionary when it was first played in 1808. When it's played well, it still packs a tremendous emotional punch. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll take an epic thirty minute journey from darkness to light. Conductor Louis Langree leads the Cincinnati Symphony in Beethoven's Fifth.
Listen to Daniel Barenboim as both pianist and conductor. On piano, he'll join baritone Thomas Quasthoff for highlights from Schubert's Winterreise. As conductor, we'll hear Barenboim leading a remarkable concert on the West Bank, with music of Mozart and Elgar.
On this weekend's Performance Today, Fred Child is joined by a special co-host --violinist Hilary Hahn. Since her professional debut at age 16, Hilary Hahn has been counted as one of the very best classical violinists in the world. She's curated a special playlist for PT listeners that includes performances that influenced her as a young violinist and ones that she admires today.
We're celebrating the 70th birthday of Keith Jarrett. He's legendary as a jazz pianist, and over the course of his 50 year career, Keith Jarrett has made some remarkable classical recordings as well. We'll hear him improvise and play Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3.
On Thursday's Performance Today, Fred Child is joined by a special co-host --violinist Hilary Hahn. Since her professional debut at age 16, Hilary Hahn has been counted as one of the very best classical violinists in the world. She's curated a special playlist for PT listeners that includes performances that influenced her as a young violinist and ones that she admires today.
Composer Bruce Adolphe joins us with this week's Piano Puzzler. We'll hear members of the Vienna Philharmonic literally getting up and walking away as they play Haydn's Farewell Symphony. And it's off to Warsaw, Poland for a set of Chopin Mazurkas played as folk music. Tune in to today's show to hear it all.
Beethoven wrote his Piano Concerto No. 1 when he was living in Vienna. We'll hear it from a concert IN Vienna. Played by an orchestra that was founded to play music by Beethoven. Rudolf Buchbinder at the piano, and conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, on today's show.
Edvard Grieg was 44 years old when he wrote his Violin Sonata No. 3. He was at a point in his life when he was, in his words, "turning toward wider horizons." We'll hear Grieg's violin sontata from a concert at the Virginia Arts Festival, plus the many moods of the Symphony No. 2 by Sibelius. That's all coming up on today's show.
Violinist Gil Shaham has been going to the Aspen Music Festival since he was ten; he was a student there, he met his wife there, and now he goes back every summer for the fresh mountain air and to play music. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear Gil Shaham and the Aspen Festival Orchestra play music by Bach.
