When Maurice Ravel wrote Gaspard de la Nuit, he was trying to make it the most difficult piano music ever written... perhaps even unplayable. Benjamin Grosvenor plays the unplayable, in concert, on Tuesday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jeremy Kittel: The Biting Reel/Lost Time
Jeremy Kittel, violin; Bodek Janke, percussion
Chasing Sparks
Compass Records 45312
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major, D. 485
Johannes Moser, cello; Houston Symphony; Matthew Halls, conductor
Houston Symphony, Jones Hall, Houston, TX
Astor Piazzolla: La Muerte del Angel
Viva Tango: Cho-Liang Lin, violin; David Shifrin, clarinet; Hector Del Curto, bandoneon; Alex Brown, piano; Satoshi Takeishi, percussion; Pablo Aslan, bass
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Jeremy Kittel: Pando
Teddy Abrams, piano; Eunice Kim, violin; The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Teddy Abrams, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Aaron Copland (arr. Hugh Wolff): Hoe-Down from Rodeo
Teddy Abrams, director and piano; The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Hour 2
Peter Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance
Trio Voronezh: Sergei Teleshev, bajan; Vladimir Volochin, domra; Valerie Petruchin, double-bass balalaika
Trio Voronezh
EMI 56892
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Union College Concert Series, Union College - Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3: Movement 4-5
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein, conductor
Bard College, Bard's Fisher Center for The Performing Arts, Annandale On-Hudson, NY
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango
Ebene Quartet
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
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