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Emanuel Ax
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Performance Today®

Emanuel Ax

Pianist Emanuel Ax has won seven Grammy Awards, an Avery Fisher Prize, and he's soloed with the New York Philharmonic more than a hundred times. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Emanuel Ax gives a thrilling performance of Beethoven's last piano concerto, the Emperor Concerto.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B-flat Major: Movement 2
Ian Swensen, violin; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Geraldine Walther, viola; David Finckel, cello
Music@Menlo Live
Music@Menlo 20052

Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
Slavko Popovic, clarinet; Richard Narroway, cello; Weiyin Chen, piano
Lake George Music Festival, Sacred Heart Church, Lake George, NY

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream
Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR

Lalo Schifrin: Malambo de Los Llanos
Viva Tango: Cho-Liang Lin, violin; David Shifrin, clarinet; Alex Brown, piano; Hector Del Curto, bandoneon; Pablo Aslan, bass; Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA

Hour 2

Leonard Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's "Symposium"): Movement 2
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792

Miniatures for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 75a
Sandy Yamamoto, violin; Karen Kim, violin; Maurycy Banaszek, viola
Skaneateles Festival, First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY
Antonin Dvorak

Leonard Bernstein (arr. Kenji Bunch): West Side Story Medley
Intersection: John Novacek, piano; Laura Frautschi, violin; Christine Lamprea, cello
Tuesday Musical Club, Laurel Heights United Methodist Church, San Antonio, TX

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor': Movements 2 & 3
Emanuel Ax, piano; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langree, conductor
Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH

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