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 Thursday's Performance Today, Emanuel Ax gives a thrilling performance of Beethoven's last piano concerto, the Emperor Concerto.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leonard Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's "Symposium")
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Antonin Dvorak: Miniatures for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 75a
Sandy Yamamoto, violin; Karen Kim, violin; Maurycy Banaszek, viola
Skaneateles Festival, First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY
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
Hour 2
Edward Elgar: Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1
English Sinfonia; Sir Charles Groves, conductor
English Sinfonia -- Sir Charles Groves
MCA 25885
Johann Sebastian Bach: Allegro, from 'Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048'
VIDA Guitar Quartet: Chris Stell, Mark Eden, Amanda Cook, Mark Ashford, guitars
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Harold Shapero: Sonata for Piano Four Hands
ZOFO: Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Old First Concerts, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA
Sir Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat, op. 63: Movements 3 & 4
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra; Nikolaj Znaider, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg
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