When Nina Lee was a young girl, a group of female musicians came to her school. They played a popular TV jingle... and Lee fell in love with the sound of the cello. Now, she's a member of the Brentano Quartet. More about Nina Lee's story, and a concert performance by the Brentano Quartet, on Friday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Camille Saint-Saens
: Carnival of the Animals (excerpts)
Renaud Capucon, violin; Esther Hoppe, violin; Beatrice Muthelet, viola; Gautier Capucon, cello; Frank Braley, piano; Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Le Carnaval Des Animaux
Virgin 45603
Jean-Baptiste Lully
: Extracts from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43
Sonnambula; Elizabeth Weinfield, Artistic Director
Baruch Performing Arts Center - Engelman Recital Hall, New York, NY
Camille Saint-Saens
: Sonata in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano
Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Michael Brown, piano
Late Night Rose, Lincoln Center Rose Studio, New York, NY
Anton Webern; Franz Schubert
: (Webern) Bagatellen, Op. 9 & (Schubert) Minuets, D. 89
Brentano String Quartet
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Hour 2
Astor Piazzolla (arr. Peter von Weinhardt)
: Oblivion
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Jennifer Higdon
: Dance Card
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX
Traditional (arr. Yi-Wen Jiang)
: Selections from "Chinasong"
Shanghai Quartet: Weigang Li, violin; Yi-Wen Jiang, violin; Honggang Li, viola; Nicholas Tzavaras, cello
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Scott Wheeler
: Morningside (Portrait of Monica Jakuc)
Donald Berman, piano
Adam Abeshouse, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
