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Performance Today®

Piano for 10 hands

The 5 Browns have a goal of introducing classical music to a wider, more diverse audience. They perform in various combinations, from duos to complex five-piano arrangements. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear The 5 Browns perform an arrangement of The Planets by Gustav Holst, from a concert in Athens, Georgia.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Leos Janacek: Romance for Violin & Piano
Petr Messieurer, violin; Radoslav Kvapil, piano
Leos Janacek: solo piano, violin & piano, cello & piano
Adda 581136

Luigi Boccherini: String Quartet Op. 2, No. 6 in C Major
Quartetto di Cremona
San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, TX

Leos Janacek: Mladi
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute and piccolo; Liang Wang, oboe; Michael Rusinek, clarinet; Kyle Knox, clarinet; Nancy Goeres, bassoon; Julie Landsman, horn
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

Gustav Holst: The Planets (excerpts)
The 5 Browns
University of Georgia, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA

Hour 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro in B-flat for clarinet, two violins, viola and cello
Emma Johnson, clarinet; Rebecca Hirsch & Gabor Takacs-Nagy, violins; Tim Boulton, viola; Andrew Shulman, cello
Mozart - Weber: Clarinet Quintets
ASV 1079

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2 (cadenza by Rachmaninoff)
George Li, piano
Tippet Rise, LLC, The Olivier Music Barn, Fishtail, MT

Traditional (arr. Danish String Quartet): Swift Like a Falcon
Danish String Quartet
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C Major, K 538
Artosphere Festival Orchestra; Corrado Rovaris, conductor
Walton Arts Center, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution.

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