Love and Death... it's all right there in the title: The Liebestod. On this episode of Performance Today, take a seat at the home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to hear them perform the Prelude und Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 "Prussian": II. Andante (Live)
Calidore String Quartet
Music@Menlo Live: Creative Capitals, Vol. 5
Music@Menlo Live NA
Felix Mendelssohn
: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13: Mvts 1 & 2
Calidore String Quartet
Young Artist in Residence, Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Piano Puzzler
: This week's contestant is Walt Warren from Wheeling, WV
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
Texas Festival Orchestra; Linus Lerner, conductor
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach
: Partita No. 2 in G Minor, S. 1004 Gigue
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
J. S. Bach Partitas
EDI Records 829757673820
Joseph Haydn
: Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:29
Gilbert Kalish, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; David Finckel, cello
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Nokuthula Ngwenyama
: Primal Message
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola; Dover Quartet
Chamber Music Northwest, Lincoln Recital Hall, Portland, OR
Richard Wagner
: Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Marek Janowski, conductor
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH
