Performance Today®

Performance Today for Saturday, May 16, 2009

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johannes Brahms: Antantino from Intermezzo in E Minor, Op. 119, No. 2
Pianist Emanuel Ax

Pablo de Sarasate: "Caprice Basque,""Romanza Andaluza," and "Zigeunerweisen"
The American String Project
Benaroya Hall, Seattle

Robert Schumann: "Papillons," Op. 2
Pianist Emanuel Ax
International Festival of Chamber Music, Schenectady, New York

Paul Reade: Saxophone Quartet
The Italian Saxophone Quartet
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California

Hour 2

Joseph Haydn: Finale from Symphony No. 89 in F
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century with conductor Franz Bruggen

William Grant Still: Suite for Violin, "Mother and Child"
Violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tito Munoz
Sphinx Competition, Detroit

Johannes Brahms: Excerpts from Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11
The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic with conductor Franz Bruggen
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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