Poster Taipei Music Academy & Festival performers on stage
Taipei Music Academy & Festival performers on stage
Photo: tey tat keng
Performance Today®

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The pandemic has profoundly affected the musical world, with concerts and festivals having been cancelled worldwide. There is hope though...in some places, concerts with audiences are safely back underway. On today's show, hear a highlight from a concert presented just last month by the Taipei Music Academy & Festival.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Robert Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 94; II. Einfach, innig (Idyllic)
Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Sandra Rivers, piano
Bravura Music
Sony 39133

Traditional, arr. Wei-Chieh Lin: Taiwanese Folk Songs
Cho-Liang Lin, Shih-Kai Lin, violins; Scott Lee, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello
Taipei Music Academy & Festival (TMAF), National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan

Piano Puzzler: Contestant is Brandon Baxter from Hastings, NE

Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
The Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
The Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN

Hour 2

Alexander Scriabin: Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 9 Alla ballata
Yuja Wang, piano
Yuja Wang: Fantasia
DG 16606

Leo Smit: Sextet for Winds and Piano
Carol Wincenc, flute; Nicholas Stovall, oboe; Amitai Vardi, clarinet; Drew Pattison, bassoon; Eli Pandolfi, horn; Bernadene Blaha, piano
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX

Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op.53
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Southeastern Piano Festival, University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Hall, Columbia, SC

William Grant Still: Panamanian Dances
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
William Grant Still: La Guiablesse, Danzas de Panama, Quit Dat Fool'nish, Summerland
Koch 7154

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