It's one of the great showpieces for violin, played by one of the finest violin soloists of our time. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear violinist Janine Jansen and the Oslo Philharmonic give an extraordinary performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Franz Schubert: Der Lindenbaum
Frederic Chiu, piano
Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions
Harmonia Mundi 3957054
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante in C, K. 315
Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Nicholas Milton, conductor
Stelio Molo Auditorium, RSI, Lugano, Switzerland
Sebastian Currier: Verge, for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Duo Prism +1: Jesse Mills, violin; Rieko Aizawa, piano; Alan R. Kay, clarinet
Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D.887: Movements 3 & 4
Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-part Inventions No. 1 in C major, No. 2 in C Minor, No. 3 in D major
Janine Jansen, violin; Maxim Rysanov, viola; Torleif Thedeen, cello
Inventions & Partita
London/Decca 9905
Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Leonore No. 3
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Michael Stern, conductor
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX
Claude Debussy: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Union College Concert Series, Union College - Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35: Movements 2 & 3
Janine Jansen, violin; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard, conductor
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
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