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Performance Today for Thursday, February 14, 2008

Episode Playlist

Richard Rodgers: "My Romance" from "Jumbo"
Oboist Suzanne Lemieux with Symphony Nova Scotia and conductor Howard Cable

Giaccomo Puccini: "Vissi d'arte" from "Tosca"
Soprano Renee Fleming with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and conductor Valery Gergiev

Sergei Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" Suite
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Yuri Temirkanov

Robert Schumann: First movement from String Quartet No. 3 in A, Op. 41, No. 3
The Ysaye Quartet

Georges Bizet: "La fleur que tu m'avais jetee" from "Carmen"
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Marco Armiliato

Johannes Brahms: "Ein kleiner, hubscher Vogel" and "Es bebet das Gestrauche" from Liebeslieder Walzer for Vocal Quartet and Piano, Four Hands, Op. 52
Soprano Carole FitzPatrick; mezzo-soprano Emily Lodine; tenor Hoss Brock; baritone Jeffrey Strauss; and pianists Deborah Sobol and Kuang-Hao Huang

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano, K. 454
Violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist John Blacklow

Maurice Ravel: Fragments Symphoniques from "Daphnis and Chloe" Suite No. 2
The Juilliard Orchestra with conductor James DePreist

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