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Fanny Mendelssohn

Fanny Mendelssohn wrote more than 500 pieces of music, and she also was a conductor. One musician recalled, "A gesture of her little finger ran like an electric shock through our souls." More about the multi-talented Fanny Mendelssohn this edition of Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Igor Stravinsky: Scherzo a la russe
Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Stravinsky: Symphony in E-flat, Op. 1/"Firebird" Suite/Scherzo a la russe
DG 453434

Matthew Locke: Music for The Tempest
Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts & Richard Stone, Directors; Emlyn Ngai, Concertmaster
Tempesta di Mare, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Jackie Aivaliotis from Pittsburgh, PA

Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento from the Fairy's Kiss, (1928, 1934)
Augustin Hadelich, violin; Jason Hardink, piano
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jacskson Hole, WY

Hour 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro in B-flat for clarinet, two violins, viola and cello
Emma Johnson, clarinet; Rebecca Hirsch & Gabor Takacs-Nagy, violins; Tim Boulton, viola; Andrew Shulman, cello
Mozart - Weber: Clarinet Quintets
ASV 1079

Cesar Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
Micah McLaurin, piano
The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival 2016, Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet in E-flat Major, K 407
Peter Moore, alto trombone; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Masumi Per Rostad and Meena Bhasin, viola; Nina Lee, cello
Spoleto Festival USA, South Carolina Public Radio, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C Major
ROCO; Mei Ann Chen, conductor
ROCO Chamber Orchestra, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX

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