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Performance Today for Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Argentine composer and tango master Astor Piazzolla wrote dozens of pieces inspired by tango, but none more ethereal than the one we'll hear called Oblivion. We'll go to a concert by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, in Houston for music by the tango master on Tuesday's Performance Today from APM.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Silvius Leopold Weiss: Concerto for Lute and Flute in F major, SC 9
Members of Tempesta di Mare: Gwyn Roberts, flute; Richard Stone, lute

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in G Major, H.XV.25 - IV. Finale "Gypsy Rondo"
OPUS ONE

Mark O'Connor: March of the Gypsy Fiddler (Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano, and orchestra)
The Ahn Trio; ProMusica Chamber Orchestra; Timothy Russell, conductor
Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concerto in D Major, FWV L:D8 (North American Premiere)
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, artistic directors
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in g minor - III. Andante
Jamie Walton, cello; Daniel Grimwood, piano
Wigmore Hall, London, England

Hour 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, Overture
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Percy Grainger: English Morris Dance, "Shepherd's Hey"
United States Marine Band; Major Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Choir of Clare College; Tim Brown, director
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425
Academy Festival Orchesta; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, California

Jacques Ibert: Hommage a Mozart
Music Academy of the West; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, California

Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Church of St. John The Divine, Houston, Texas

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