This music is old and new, at the same time. On today's show we'll hear a group from Paris called L'Arpeggiata. They play music from the 1600s and 1700s, but much of what they do is improvise around those pieces from hundreds of years ago. Listen to Monday's Performance Today for L'Arpeggiata from a gorgeous concert earlier this month at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alberto Ginastera: Panambi: Claro deluna sobre el Parana (Moonlight on the Parana)
London Symphony Orchestra; Gesele Ben-Dor, conductor
Richard Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles California
Henry Purcell: The Old Bachelor
A Far Cry
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Benedictus from Responsoria
Berlin Vocal Consort; James Wood, conductor
Basilica of St. Martin, Bingen, Germany
Astor Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Roberto Plano, piano
Wellspring Theater, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Alberto Ginastera: Dances from the Ballet 'Estancia', Op. 8bis
New York Philharmonic, David Robertson, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City
Hour 2
Heinz Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonata "La Pastorella"
Heinz Ignaz
Romanesca; Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, theorbo; John Toll, harpsichord
Georg Philipp Telemann: Air for trumpet
Stephen Burns, trumpet
Traditional: Maria, le sette spade; Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: L'Annonciation; Claudio Merulo: Hor ch'e tempo di dormire; Traditional: Ninna, Nanna Spra la Romanesca; Traditional: Maria; Benedetto Ferrari: Queste pungente spine; Maurizio Cazzati: Passacaglia
L'Arpeggiata and Ensemble Barbara Furtuna; Lucilla Galeazzi, vocalist; Raquel Andueza, soprano
Carnegie Hall: Zankel Hall, New York City, New York
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12; I. Des Abends
Emanuel Ax, piano
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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