Poster Sol Gabetta, cello
Sol Gabetta, cello
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Performance Today®

Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta plays cello with intelligence, emotion, and a lively wit. She lives in Switzerland, and her career is mainly in Europe. But on Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear from a concert Sol Gabetta gave here in the states with the Houston Symphony.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonin Dvorak (arr. Fritz Kreisler): Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 100
Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Patricia Zander, piano
Kreisler, Paganini: Works
Sony 37280

Bruce Broughton: Fanfares, Marches, Hymns, and Finale
Grand Teton Music Festival Brass; Michael Mulcahy, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY

Andy Akiho: In/Exchange, for string quartet and steel pan
Friction Quartet; Andy Ahiko, steel pan
Classical KING FM, The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA

Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American": Movements 3 & 4
Attacca Quartet
Virginia Arts Festival, St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, VA

Black History Spotlight: Will Marion Cook

Hour 2

Camille Saint-Saens: Une Nuit a Lisbonne (A Night in Lisbon)
Orchestre Symphonique Francais; Laurent Petitgirard, conductor
Saint-Saens
Adda 590064

Camille Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Sol Gabetta, cello; Houston Symphony; John Storgards, conductor
Houston Symphony, Jones Hall, Houston, TX

Robert Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132
David Shifrin, clarinet; Paul Neubauer, viola; Gloria Chien, piano
String Theory at the Hunter, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Astor Piazzolla: Resurreccion del Angel
Hector del Curto Quintet
The Aspen Music Festival and School, Harris Hall, Aspen, CO

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