If you go to a concert and clap between movements of a symphony some audience members might shoosh you or even scold you. When Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 premiered in 1893, the Carnegie Hall audience gave a standing ovation at the end of EVERY movement. Hear the New York Philharmonic perform Dvorak's triumphant ninth, the New World Symphony, on Monday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major: Movement 2 Scherzo: Allegro
Takacs Quartet
Borodin String Quartets
London/Decca 452239
Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
Svetlana Smolina, piano; Christopher O'Riley, piano; Elmer Churampi, trumpet
Tippet Rise, LLC, The Olivier Music Barn, Fishtail, MT
Alexander Borodin: String Sextet in D minor
Daniel Hope, violin; Benny Kim, violin; Philip Dukes, viola; CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Keith Robinson, cello
Savannah Music Festival, Trinity United Methodist Church, Savannah, GA
Virgil Thomson: Plow That Broke the Plains Suite
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
Virgil Thompson: Music for Film, "The River" & "Plow That Broke the Plains"
EMI 47715
Black History Spotlight: Nora Holt
Nora Holt: Negro Dance, Op. 25, No. 1
Helen Walker-Hill, piano
Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women
Leonarda 339
Hour 2
Bedrich Smetana: Ten Czech Dances: The Bear
The Czech Nonet
Smetana: Ten Czech Dances; Trojan
Campion 1315
Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Tatiana Mikova: Spanish Serenade
The Czech Nonet; Vladimira Klanska, conductor
Arco Diva studio in Domovina, Prague
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "New World": Movements 3 & 4
New York Philharmonic; Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York City, NY
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