As part of our new series, New York Out Loud, we commissioned composer Arun Luthra to write five new works using sounds from each of New York's five boroughs. Brand new music inspired by the sounds and feelings of the city. On this edition of Performance Today, hear these five works written just for us by Arun Luthra.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Miklos Rozsa: El Cid: Love Theme
Daniel Hope, violin; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor
Escape To Paradise: The Hollywood Album
DG 4792954
Dan Visconti: Legendary Love (in honor of Christian Kidd)
ROCO
ROCO, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX
Franz Schubert: 12 Deutsche (Landler), D. 790
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85: Movements 1-2
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Elgar
Decca Classics NA
Ernest Bloch, arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason: From Jewish Life B. 54, Prayer No. 1
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Braimah Kanneh-Mason, violin
Elgar
Decca Classics NA
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor, BWV 1043 Movement 3 Allegro
Pekka Kuusisto, Jaakko Kuusisto, violins; Tapiola Sinfonietta; Tero Latvala, conductor
J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos
Ondine 980
Jean Sibelius: Rakastava (The Lover), Op. 14
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Marin Marais: Les Folias d'Espagne
Cavatina Duo: Eugenia Moliner, flute; Denis Azabagic, guitar
San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Temple Beth-El San Antonio, TX
Arun Luthra: Brooklyn: runners and riders
Arun Luthra, saxophone; Marko Churnchetz, piano; Thomson Kneeland, double bass; Jonathan Barber, percussion
Recorded at Pyramid Recording Studios, New York, NY
Leonard Bernstein: Ballet: Imaginary Coney Island, from On the Town
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: A Portraid
Sony 47154
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