In 2004, the executor of an estate in Switzerland found a dusty old book of hand-written music... that he recognized! It was the score that Sergei Rachmaninoff had used to conduct the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in 1908. On this episode of Performance Today, get the story and hear the Houston Symphony play Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat, K 191: Movement 3 Rondo - Tempo di Menuetto
Benjamin Kamins, bassoon; Houston Symphony; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Mozart: Wind Concerti (Wind Concertos)
IMP 77
Jacques Offenbach (arr. WindSync): Overture from "A Trip to the Moon"
WindSync
Skaneateles Festival, First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY
Erberk Eryilmaz: Flying Sirto
Andres Cardenes, violin; ROCO; Erberk Eryilmaz, conductor
ROCO Chamber Orchestra, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2: Movements 3-4
Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Houston Symphony, Jones Hall, Houston, TX
Hour 2
Robert Schumann: Carnaval: Movements 1 & 2
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Kirill Gerstein: Imaginary Pictures
Myrios 13
Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Otto Tausk, conductor
Concert Hall, DR Concert House, Copenhagen, Denmark
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Renata Arado, violin; Espen Lilleslatten, viola; Darrett Adkins, cello; Rita Sloan, piano
Aspen Music Festival and School, Harris Hall, Aspen, CO
Auguste Franchomme (arr. Caitlin Sullivan): Douze Caprices No. 11 & No. 7
Decoda Cello Quartet
String Theory at the Hunter, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
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