Composer Clarice Assad was born and raised in Brazil, but has spent the last few decades in the United States. When she's asked where home is, she says "The Americas." On this episode of Performance Today, hear Assad's "Without Borders," performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Hans Christian Lumbye
: Columbine Polka Mazurka
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Lumbye - Festival at Tivoli
Chandos 10354
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
: Cello Concerto
Johannes Moser, cello; Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Otto Tausk, conductor
Concert Hall, DR Concert House, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ernest Bloch
: Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Hassidic Life for Violin and Piano: Movement 2. Nigun (Improvisation)
Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Alon Goldstein, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Jean Sibelius
: Rakastava (The Lover), Op. 14
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Hour 2
Francis Poulenc
: from 15 Improvisations: No. 11 in G minor and No. 15 in c minor "Hommage a Edith Piaf"
Lucille Chung, piano
Poulenc: Works for Piano Solo and Duo
Signum 455
Clarice Assad
: Sin fronteras
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Project W
Cedille 33229
Alexander Scriabin
: Andante in B Major, Op. 16, No. 1
Lucille Chung, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Alexander Scriabin
: Andante in B-flat Major, Op. 11, No. 21
Lucille Chung, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Alexander Scriabin
: Vers la flamme (Towards the Flame), Op. 72
Lucille Chung, piano
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Benjamin Britten
: Simple Symphony for String Orchestra, Op. 4
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Teddy Abrams, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
