Poster Kit Armstrong, pianist
Kit Armstrong, pianist
Neda Navaee
Performance Today®

Kit Armstrong

The legendary pianist Alfred Brendel doesn't really like to teach, but he made an exception for a young man named Kit Armstrong. The story and Kit Armstrong in concert, on the Wednesday's Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Astor Piazzolla: Milonga en re
Gidon Kremer, violin
Hommage a Piazzolla
Nonesuch 79407

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Tuileries
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Awadagin Pratt: Transformations
EMI 56836

George Enescu: String Octet in C Major, Op. 7: Movements 3-4
Bella Hristova, Danbi Um, Arnaud Sussmann, Soovin Kim, violins; Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, violas; Nicholas Canellakis, Clive Greensmith, cellos
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Kristen Zoetewey from Grand Rapids, MI

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Jeff Scott): Contrabajissimo
Imani Winds
Beaches Fine Arts Series, St. Paul's by the Sea Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, FL

Hour 2

Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune (Moonlight)
Janine Jansen, violin; Itamar Golan, piano
Beau Soir
London/Decca 15249

Tyzen Hsiao: Fantasy Heng-Chhun Melody
Amber Sung, violin; Ta-Wei Tsai, piano
Heifetz International Music Institute, Francis Auditorium, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15
Kit Armstrong, Piano; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langree, conductor
Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH

Peter Tchaikovsky (arr. Alexander Glazunov): Melodie, from 'Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42/3'
Janine Jansen, violin; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard, conductor
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway

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