Poster Pianist Simon Trpceski
Pianist Simon Trpceski
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Simon Trpceski plays Prokofiev

When writing his Piano Concerto No. 3, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote a single word above a particular point in the composition..."coldly." It's a chilling musical descent, entombed in the concerto's fiery heat. On Friday's Performance Today, pianist Simon Trpceski and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra perform Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 at a concert in Stavanger, Norway.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune
Simon Trpceski, piano
Debussy: Images; Arabesques; Children's Corner; Clair de lune; L'Isle joyeuse
EMI 272

Johann Sebastian Bach: Selections from Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Stephanie McNab, flute; Calidore String Quartet
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA

Alfonso Montes: Llanura
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York City, NY

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
Simon Trpceski, piano; Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fartein Valen, Stavanger Konserthus, Stavanger, Norway

Hour 2

Camilla de Rossi: Sinfonia from "Il Sacrifizio di Abramo" (excerpt)
JoAnn Falletta, lute; Bay Area Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Baroquen Treasures
Newport 60102

Darius Milhaud: Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, Op. 157b
Prima Trio
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, West Room, Palm Beach, FL

Robert Paterson: Dark Mountains
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68: Movement 1
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8
Sony 47517

Giuseppe Verdi: Ave Maria from Otello
Leontyne Price, soprano; RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor
Leontyne Price: Verdi Heroines
RCA 7016

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