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 and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
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: Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello
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
Hour 2
Ethel Smyth: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in D Minor: III. Scherzo. Presto con brio
Chagall Trio: Lorenzo Nguyen. piano; Edoard Grieco, violin; Francesco Massimo, cello
The Impressions That Remain
Meridian NA
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E for String Orchestra, Op. 22
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Ethel Smyth: Piano Piece in E Major
Liana Serbescu, piano
Smyth: Complete Piano Works
CPO 3272
Max Bruch: Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 (Select Movements)
Prima Trio
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, West Room, Palm Beach, FL
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