Douglas Lora and Joao Luiz met when they were teenagers, and have been playing guitar together for almost 20 years as the Brasil Guitar Duo. On this weekend's Performance Today, hear them perform an arrangement of "A Fala Da Paixao" (Words of Passion) by Egberto Gismonti, from a concert in New York City.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1060: Movement 1 Allegro
Hilary Hahn, violin; Allan Vogel, oboe; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Hilary Hahn, Bach Concertos
DG 986
Yefim Rosenfeld (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov): My Happiness
The Astor Quartet: Gidon Kremer, violin; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double bass
Astor Quartet: Live at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio
Nonesuch 531411
Juan Carlos Cobian: Los Mareados
Gidon Kremer, violin; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double bass; Astor Quartet
Astor Quartet: Live at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio
Nonesuch 531411
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Shawn Hampton from Round Rock, TX
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, K. 238
Jeffrey Kahane, piano; New York Philharmonic; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Kenneth Frazelle: Fiddler's Galaxy
Joseph Swensen, violin; Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
Hour 2
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Fuga elegiaca: Preludio and Fuga
Brasil Guitar Duo
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2
Naxos 570779
Leos Janacek: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, "From The Street"
Deirbhile Brennan, piano
The Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, Van Cliburn Recital Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Carter Brey, cello; New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Egberto Gismonti, arr. Joao Luiz: A fala da paixao
Brasil Guitar Duo
Americas Society, New York, NY
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