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Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, by Richard Strauss, is a musical fairy-tale... a 15-minute orchestral romp that celebrates a crass, anti-establishment prankster. Hear the Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform the piece, as well as other concert highlights from around the world, on this weekend's Performance Today, with guest-host Yura Lee.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Richard Strauss: Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Eivind Aadland, conductor
Storyteller
EMI 88328

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 (1-5)
Steven Osborne, piano
Pau Casals Auditorium, El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Bob Lagerquist from Eugene, OR

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; David Afkham, conductor
Concert Hall, DR Concert House, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hour 2

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Court Sonata No. 2
Purcell Quartet
Album: Biber: Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes
Chandos 591

Anton Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32: Movements 1, 2, 4
Gloria Chien, piano; Paul Huang, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passacaglia in G minor for Solo Violin
Yura Lee, violin
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA

Reinhard Keiser: Concerto in D
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors; Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster, conductor
Tempesta di Mare, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA

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