Performance Today®

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear pianist Anton Kuerti talk about the many moods of Beethoven. Plus we'll hear him play Beethoven's "Les adieux" sonata from a spring 2011 performance in our studios.

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll drop in on a concert at the Savannah Music Festival for a sprightly piano quartet by French composer Gabriel Faure.

On Wednesday's Performance Today we'll hear the intense piano virtuosity of Yuja Wang from a concert in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Plus a playful piano puzzler by Bruce Adolphe.

On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll celebrate Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's birthday by hearing his poignant, noble masterpiece: "Scheherazade." Plus we'll highlight three very different versions of his best-known piece, "Flight of the Bumblebee."

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Stockholm for the Italian Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn. And since Monday is a day for all things Irish, we'll also get a set of Irish tunes from the Ensemble Galilei.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is a half-hour long journey from darkness to light. Coming up on this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear it performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is a half-hour long journey from darkness to light. Coming up on Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear it performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Camille Saint-Saens wrote the Carnival of the Animals for a private party; he'd hoped that would be the last time it was ever heard. Of course, that's not what happened. On Thursday's Performance Today we'll hear Saint-Saens' much-loved musical menagerie from a concert in Buffalo, New York.

Contemporary composer David Maslanka begins every day by playing and singing Bach. On Wednesday's Performance Today we'll hear Maslanka's Wind Quintet No. 3, which features a direct musical quote from a Bach chorale.