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 this weekend's Performance Today, a composer who calls herself "part cartoon character, part virtuoso." We'll hear the Symphony No. 1 by Wang Jie.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Modest Mussorgsky: In the Village
Vovka Ashkenazy, piano
Mussorgsky Songs, Vol. 4
Conifer 51274

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasia in C Minor, Op. 80
Lori Sims, piano; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Westminster Choir; Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Joe Miller, conductor
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston Gaillard Center, Charleston, SC

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Jessie J. Marshall from Tallahassee, FL

Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov): Night on Bald Mountain
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Hour 2

Frederic Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 No 2, 7, 16
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Chopin: The Complete Preludes
DG 10870

Franz Strauss: Nocturno for Horn
Addison Maye-Saxon, trombone; Benjamin Krasner, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN

C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonata in A minor
Addison Maye-Saxon, trombone; Benjamin Krasner, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St Paul, MN

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

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

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