Amid the symphonies around it in Beethoven's canon, his Eighth may look small and insubstantial. But the composer himself was very fond of it. We'll go to Los Angeles to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen lead the L.A. Philharmonic in concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edouard Lalo: Second movement from "Symphonie Espagnole" in D Minor, Op. 21
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta
Esa-Pekka Salonen: "Laughing Unlearned"
Violinist Leila Josefowicz
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Laughing and Shouting for Joy" from Cantata No. 15
The Spivey Hall Children's Choir with conductor Martha Shaw
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93
The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C Minor
Oboist Kathryn Greenbank with violinists Adam Barnett-Hart and Wu Jie, violist Pierre Lapointe, cellist Andrew Janss and bassist DaXun Zhang
Music@Menlo Festival, Palo Alto, California
Hour 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Third movement from Octet in E-flat, Op. 20
The Cleveland Quartet and the Meliora Quartet
Mariano Valverde: Suite of Works for Marimba
Matthew McClung, Bobby Fajardo, Douglas Soriano and Adam Pin, marimbas
Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Felix Mendelssohn: First movement from Viola Quintet in B-flat, Op. 87
The Ying Quartet with violist Sabina Thatcher
Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, Colorado
Chou Wen-Chung: "Leggeriezza" from "Clouds"
The Ying Quartet
Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, Colorado
Ferruccio Busoni: Four movements from "Turandot" Symphonic Suite, Op. 41
The National Orchestra of Belgium with conductor Roberto Minczuk
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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