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Beatrice Rana
Parlorphone Records, photo: Simon Fowler
Performance Today®

Beatrice Rana plays Ravel

Pianist Beatrice Rana finds both precision and ambiguity in the works of Maurice Ravel. She says "It's like a Swiss clock, with every detail in the music... but at the same time it's like water: there's so much depth." On today's show, Beatrice Rana gives an intimate performance of music from Miroirs by Maurice Ravel.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claudio Grafulla: Washington Grays
United States Marine Band; Colonel Michael J. Colburn, conductor
Military Workout With Military Music
Altissimo! NA

Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: Movement 1
Xiaoxuan Li, piano; Canton Symphony Orchestra; Gerhardt Zimmermann, conductor
Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, Maltz Performing Arts Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Pierre Jalbert: L'esprit du Nord (Spirit of the North)
Apollo Chamber Players
Apollo Chamber Players, Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH), Houston, TX

Joel Puckett: It Perched for Vespers Nine
United States Marine Band; Col. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
United States Marine Band, Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall, Alexandria, VA

Hour 2

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor Movement 3 Scherzo
Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies
Bis 1286

Tessa Lark: Telemann Medley
Tessa Lark, violin
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA

Tessa Lark: Appalachian Fantasy
Tessa Lark, violin
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA

Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN

Maurice Ravel: Miroirs: Movements 4-5
Beatrice Rana, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

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