Poster Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist
Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist
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Quite a find

In 2004, the executor of an estate in Switzerland found a dusty old book of hand-written music... music that he recognized... it was the score that Sergei Rachmaninoff used to conduct the premiere of his second symphony in 1908. Find out more about the manuscript's dormancy and rediscovery on Tuesday's Performance Today... and hear Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 performed by the Houston Symphony.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claude Debussy: Pour le piano Movement 2 Sarabande
Zoltan Koscis, piano
Debussy: Zoltan Kcosis
Philips 412118

Dietrich Buxtehude: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, BuxWV 266
Owen Dalby, violin; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Christopher Constanza, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord
Spoleto Festival USA, Bank of America's Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
Grand Teton Festival Orchestra; Donald Runnicles, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Grant Teton, WY

Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, L. 85
Calder Quartet
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA

Hour 2

Richard Strauss: Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
Renee Fleming, soprano; Houston Symphony; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
4 Last Songs - Orchesterlieder - Der Rosenkavalier Suite
RCA 68539

Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz, D. 703
Modigliani String Quartet: Philippe Bernhard, violin; Loic Rio, violin; Laurent Marfaing, viola; Francois Kieffer, cello
Union College Concert Series, Union College Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY

John Corigliano: Selections from the 'Red Violin Caprices', for solo violin
Paul Huang, violin
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2: Movements 2 & 3
Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Houston Symphony, Jones Hall, Houston, TX

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