In 2015, the Syrian civil war forced violinist Shalan Alhamwy and his family into a perilous journey of exile. Alhamwy says "I cannot face a tank with my violin, but music is a way to say no to war." On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear Shalan Alhamwy's "Two Images from Aleppo," from a concert in Cologne, Germany.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Vincenzo Bellini: Chi veggio? La regina!
Pretty Yende, soprano; Piero Pretti, tenor; Mattia Olivieri, baritone; Carlo Lepore, bass; Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; Giacom Sagripanti, conductor
Dreams
Sony Music Entertainment 617
Charles Gounod: Ah! Je veux vivre (Juliette) From Romeo et Juliette
Pretty Yende, soprano; Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi; Giacomo Sagripanti, conductor
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, West Room, Palm Beach, FL
Dreams
Sony Music Entertainment 617
Aldo Lopez-Gavilan: Emporium for Solo Piano and Orchestra
Aldo Lopez-Gavilan, piano; The Classical Tahoe Orchestra; Joel Revzen, conductor
Classical Tahoe, The Pavilion, Incline Village, NV
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sinfonia in C Major for Strings, W. 182, No. 3
Danbi Um, violin; Daniel Phillips, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello; David Grossman, double bass; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center & University of Georgia, University of Georgia, Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
Hour 2
Scott Joplin (arr. Itzhak Perlman): Elite Syncopations
Matthew Trusler, violin; Wayne Marshall, piano
Blues
Orchid 100002
George Gershwin (arr. Jascha Heifetz): from 'Three Preludes'
Matthew Trusler, violin; Wayne Marshall, piano
Blues
Orchid 100002
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67
Yura Lee, violin; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Roberto Diaz, viola; Bion Tsang, cello; Adam Neiman, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
Shalan Alhamwy: Two Images from Aleppo
Members of the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra; WDR Radio Orchestra; Wayne Marshall, conductor
Klaus von Bismarck Hall, WDR Broadcasting House, Cologne, Germany
Mary Lou Williams (arr. David Milne): Zodiac Suite
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
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