Every week Performance Today features music written in the 21st Century. This week, we'll hear the world premiere performance of a piece Magnus Lindberg wrote to celebrate Alan Gilbert's first concert as music director of the New York Philharmonic. Lindberg is a Finnish composer. His piece is called EXPO. We'll hear that music signalling a brand new era from a live concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky
: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
Album: Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 6, Telarc 80130
Gabriela Montero
: Improvisation on a given theme - Summertime
Gabriela Montero, piano
RSI Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland
Zoltan Kodaly
: Summer Evening
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Robert Moody, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX
Peter Tchaikovsky
: The Seasons, Op. 37b - 6. June: Barcarolle
Denis Matsuev, piano
Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Judith Lang Zaimont
: A Calendar Set -- 12 Virtuosic Preludes - 6. June: 'Then, if ever, come perfect days.' (James Russell Lowell) - 7. July: The Glorious Fourth!
Christopher Atzinger, piano
Album: Judith Lang Zaimont -- Sonata, A Calendar Set, Nocturne, Naxos 8.559665
Igor Stravinsky
: Concerto in D Major
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Hour 2
Claude Debussy
: Suite Bergamasque - 2. Menuet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Album: Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Debussy: Images, Etudes, London/Decca 460 247
Magnus Lindberg
: EXPO (2009)
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Album: Magnus Lindberg: EXPO, Piano Concerto No. 2, Al largo, Dacapo 8226076
: Young Artist in Residence
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN
Claude Debussy
: First Rhapsody
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Fabien Gabel, conductor; Martin Frost, clarinet
Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
