Performance Today®

Performance Today for Saturday, May 19, 2007

Episode Playlist

Gioacchino Rossini: Overture to "Il Signor Bruschino"
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra with conductor Charles Dutoit

Sulkhan Zinzadze: Georgian Folk Suite
The Rastrelli Cello Quartet

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Pianist Dong-Hyek Lim

Richard Wagner: "Dawn,""Siegfried's Rhine Journey,""Funeral March" and "Finale" from "Gotterdammerung"
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra with conductor Franz-Paul Decker

Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with conductor Igor Stravinsky

Astor Piazzolla: "Otono Porteno"
Guitarists the Katona Twins

Isaac Albeniz: "Majorca"
Guitarists the Katona Twins

Isaac Albeniz: "Evocacion" from Book One of "Iberia"
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin

Gioacchino Rossini: "Per lui che adoro" from "The Italian Girl in Algiers"
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos

Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella" Suite
The North German Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi

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