Poster Xavier Foley
Double bassist Xavier Foley
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Performance Today®

The 2014 Sphinx competition

The 2014 Sphinx Competition took place last week in Detroit. On Thursday's Performance Today we'll hear the winning performance, plus we'll speak with the winner of this year's competition: 19-year-old bass soloist Xavier Foley.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Peter Tchaikovsky: June: Barcarolle
Van Cliburn, piano
The World's Favorite Piano Music
RCA 60973

Brad Richter: City Song
Brad Richter, guitar
Abounding Grace Sanctuary, Tucson, AZ

Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes, S. 139: No.11: Harmonies du soir
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Van Cliburn Competition, Bass Performance Hall, Forth Worth, TX

Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: 1. To a Wild Rose
Van Cliburn, piano
Schumann and MacDowell Piano Concertos
RCA 60420

Peteris Vasks: Distant Light
Alina Pogostkina, violin; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Hour 2

Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Op. 19: No. 2 in a minor, Andante espressivo; No. 3 in A Major, "Hunting Song" Molto Allegro e viva
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words / Daniel Barenboim
DG 453061

Giovanni Bottesini: Concerto No. 2 for Double Bass
Xavier Foley, double bass; Sphinx Symphony Orchestra; Brandon Keith Brown, conductor
Sphinx Competition, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI

Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 7 in d minor: 1. Allegro; 4. Allegro molto
Sphinx Virtuosi; Damon Gupton, conductor Staples Family Concert Hall, Central
Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

Jan Zelenka: Trio Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, ZWV 181
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; James Austin Smith, oboe; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord
Spoleto Festival, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Howard Hanson: Elegy for Serge Koussevitsky
BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK

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