Performance Today Features

Listen to conductor and pianist Robert Spano perform one of his own compositions at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Listen to 19 year-old Nathan Chan play music by Rachmaninoff and Kreisler at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

American cellist Wendy Warner and Russian pianist Irina Nuzova are a study in contrasts, but they share one important interest: Russian music for cello and piano.

Pianist Alessio Bax joins host Fred Child in the studio to perform music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff and talk about what it's like to share an apartment with his toughest, kindest critic.

Listen to the young British ensemble sing music from the 1500s.

What has two heads, four arms, twenty fingers and more than four million hits on YouTube? The Anderson & Roe piano duo. They host Fred Child in the studio to play old (Mozart) and new (Michael Jackson) classics and talk about their signature music videos, now online sensations.

Pianist Roberto Plano talks with Fred about the discoveries of his recent musical sleuthing.

Marie-Claire Alain was the first French female organist to record the collected works of J.S. Bach. She also championed the music of her brother who died in World War II. Michael Barone talks with Fred Child about her legacy.

Violinist Joshua Bell performs in the studio with pianist Sam Haywood and talks about his new role as music director for The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han talk about musical chemistry with host Fred Child in the PT studio.