Conductor Valery Gergiev brings a penetrating intelligence to the podium, but when the moment for music-making arrives, he also has a primal intensity that can produce riveting performances. From a concert last month in London, Gergiev leads the London Symphony in Claude Debussy's musical picture of the primal power of the sea, "La Mer."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov: Intermezzo No. 2 in G for Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Neeme Jarvi
Bela Bartok: Excerpts from Duets for Two Violins
Violinists William Harvey and Erin Aldridge
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
"The Piano Puzzler": This week's contestant is Beth Hartman from St. Paul, MN.
Claude Debussy: "La Mer"
The London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
Barbican Hall, London, England
Hour 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Third movement from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathetique")
Pianist Jonathan Biss
Joseph Haydn: Overture to "L'infedelta Delusa" ("Deceit Outwitted")
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Perfchat with Jonathan Biss, Steven Copes, and Ronald Thomas
Felix Mendelssohn: First movement from Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Pianist Jonathan Biss, violinist Steven Copes, and cellist Ronald Thomas
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Antonio Vivaldi: Passacaglia from Violin Concerto in E, RV 583
Violinist Giuliano Carmignola with the Venice Baroque Orchestra and conductor Andrea Marcon
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
George Frideric Handel: Passacaglia
Violinist Paolo Ciociola and cellist David Amadio with Interpreti Veneziani Baroque Orchestra
Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Anton Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin with conductor Ingo Metzmacher
Edinburgh Festival International, Edinburgh, Scotland
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