Poster Avi Avital
Avi Avital
Uwe Arens
Performance Today®

David Bruce: Cymbeline

David Bruce wrote Cymbeline in 2013 for mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital, and it's a PT listener favorite. On this weekend's Performance Today, hear Avi Avital and the Dover Quartet play Cymbeline at a concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Hildegard von Bingen: Veni creator spiritus
Anonymous 4
Hildegard Von Bingen: Origin Of Fire
Harmonia Mundi 907327

Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Alex Fortes): Columba aspexit
Aizuri Quartet
Sundin Hall, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN

Carlo Gesualdo (arr. Alex Fortes): Io parto e non pi u dissi
Aizuri Quartet
Sundin Hall, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN

Carlo Gesualdo (arr. Alex Fortes): O tenebroso giorno
Aizuri Quartet
Sundin Hall, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN

Felix Mendelssohn: Excerpts from 'Concert Piece No. 1 in F minor, op. 113'
Mmbrs of Syrian National Symphony Orchestra; WDR Radio Orchestra; Wayne Marshall, conductor
Klaus von Bismarck Hall, WDR Broadcasting House, Cologne, Germany

Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta
RTE National Symphony Orchestra; Hakan Hardenberger, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Hour 2

Vittorio Monti (arr. Avi Avital and Richard Galliano): Czardas
Avi Avital, mandolin; Richard Galliano, accordion
Avi Avital: Between Worlds
DG 19758

Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

David Bruce: Cymbeline
Avi Avital, mandolin; The Dover String Quartet
String Theory at the Hunter the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Zoltan Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8: I. Allegro maestoso ma appas
Cicely Parnas, cello; Kati Gleiser, cello
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

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