Poster Composer Wang Jie and JoAnn Falletta
Composer Wang Jie and JoAnn Falletta
Fred Child
Performance Today®

Wang Jie: Symphony No. 1

"If you find yourself elated by my music," composer Wang Jie says, "the credit goes to the muses. If you hate it," she continues, "well, it's only 15 minutes long." On the next Performance Today, a composer who calls herself "part cartoon character, part virtuoso." We'll hear her Symphony No. 1.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor, BWV 1043: Movement 3 Allegro
Pekka Kuusisto, Jaakko Kuusisto, violins; Tapiola Sinfonietta; Tero Latvala, concertmaster
J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos
Ondine 980

Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro, Pastorale
Bil Jackson, clarinet; Toby Appel, viola
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, CO

Wang Jie: Symphony No. 1 "Spring Awakening"
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN

Hour 2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in C minor: Movement 3 Finale Prestissimo
Paul Lewis, piano
Beethoven #4 - Paul Lewis
Harmoni Mundi 901909

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 No. 2
Tesla Quartet
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Music Series, Palm Beach, FL

Olivier Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliees (The Forgotten Offerings)
Jonathan Biss, piano; Houston Symphony; Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX

Natalie Dietterich: Chainlink Fences
Addy Sterrett, soprano; 2017 Norfolk Festival Chorus and Orchestra; Simon Carrington, conductor
Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Barn, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk, CT

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