Poster Pianist Jonathan Biss
Pianist Jonathan Biss
Photo: Benjamin Ealovega
Performance Today®

Jonathan Biss and Beethoven

American pianist Jonathan Biss plays a wide range of music, but something about Beethoven always pulls him back in. On today's show, Jonathan Biss pours his own passion into Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Houston Symphony.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87: III. Scherzo: Presto
Boston Trio: Heng-Jin Park, piano; Jonah Ellsworth, cello; Irina Muresanu, violin
The Boston Trio - Brahms, Ravel, Suk
Parjo Music NA

Frederic Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3
Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Eliza Ching, piano
Young Artist in Residence, Fitzgerald Theatre, St. Paul, MN

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Anne Nelson from Portland, Maine

Claude Debussy (arr. Sally Beamish): La Mer, Three Symphonic Sketches
Boston Trio: Heng-Jin Park, piano; Jonah Ellsworth, cello; Irina Muresanu, violin
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Flagler Museum, West Room, Palm Beach, FL

Hour 2

Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 III. Sehr aufgeregt
Jonathan Biss, piano
Schumann: Fantasie, Kreisleriana & Arabeske
EMI 65391

Cyril Scott (arr. Fritz Kreisler): Lotus Land, after Cyril Scott's Op. 47, No. 1
Benjamin Beilman, violin; Hyeyeon Park, piano
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 Op. 58
Jonathan Biss, piano; Houston Symphony; Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX

Billy Strayhorn: Take the "A" Train
Harlem Quartet
Beaches fine Arts Series, St. Paul's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, FL

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