It's expected for an artist to sign his or her work in the bottom corner of a painting. In this hour, the musical signature that Sergei Rachmaninoff used in a number of his works. It shows up at the end of his Second Piano Concerto. We'll hear a performance by pianist Alexander Kobrin and the KBS Symphony Orchestra of South Korea, and the sweet Schumann encore Kobrin played when it was over.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Paul Hindemith: March from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
The San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Francisco Tarrega: Gran Jota
Pepe Romero, guitar
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Francois Couperin: Concert Royal Concerto No. 2 in D
Ramon Ortega Quero, oboe, Olga Watts, harpsichord
Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
George Frideric Handel: Royal Fireworks Music
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Isaac Albeniz: Capricho Catalan
Stephen Hough, piano
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
Hour 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux No. 2 in C and No. 6 in E-flat, Op. 33
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: How Fair this Spot, Op. 21, No. 7
Arturo Delmoni, violin, Wendy Chen, piano
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Anatoly Liadov: A Musical Snuffbox, Op. 32
Denis Matsuev, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Traditional (Arranged by Gregory Brown): The Dying Californian
New York Polyphony
Urness Recital Hall, Northfield, Minnesota
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Alexander Kobrin, piano, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor, conductor
Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Robert Schumann: Of Foreign Lands and Peoples, from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Alexander Kobrin, piano
Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
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