When he was growing up in Vienna, nobody in Rudolf Buchbinder's house played music. But for some reason, the family had a piano. It was more of a furniture piece, he says, until he started to imitate music he had heard on the radio on the piano. Very quickly, he became the youngest student ever accepted at the Vienna Conservatory. Buchbinder has grown up to have a tremendous career as a pianist. We'll hear him on the radio, playing Beethoven, on Thursday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony in C Major, Hob. I.: 48 "Maria Theresia" - IV. Finale: Allegro
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Semperoper, Dresden, Germany
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus - Act IV, Scene 1: La Descente de Venus, ritournelle; Prologue, Scene 2: Tambourins
Le Concert d'Astree; Emmanuelle Haim, conductor
Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major, Hob. I:88
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC
Hour 2
Edward Elgar: Nursery Suite - 1. Aubade
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Paul Goodwin, conductor
Ordway Center for Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN
Johann Strauss (arr. Schoenberg): Kaiserwalzer, op. 437
Carol Wincenc, flute; Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano; Ian Swensen, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Dane Johansen, cello
The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, CA
Radiohead: Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Holley Hall, Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, Sarasota, FL
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6 No. 2
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Paul Goodwin, conductor
Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Saint Paul, MN
Michael Tippett: Fantasia concertanta on a Theme of Corelli for Strings
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Paul Goodwin, conductor
Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Saint Paul, MN
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