On Monday's Performance Today we'll feature another member of the young classical vanguard: 20 year-old cellist Coleman Itzkoff. He was with PT this past year as a Young Artist in Residence and we're glad to bring him back this summer. Itzkoff plays music by Beethoven or, as he puts it, he acts music by Beethoven. There are so many different characters, coming and going from the stage, Coleman Itzkoff says he feels like an actor in a one-man play, performing Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 102.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ottornio Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3: - I. Italiano (anon.), IV. Passacaglia (Lodovico Roncalli)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances from Opus 46 & 72 - Op. 46, no. 1: Presto, Op. 72, no. 2: Allegretto grazioso; op. 72, no. 7: Allegro vivace
Bellingham Festival Orchestra; Michael Palmer, conductor
Mt. Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor (excerpt) - 4. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo - Presto, non troppo
Sean Chen, piano; Brentano String Quartet
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Bass Performance Hall, Forth Worth, TX
Ottorino Respighi: The Birds - 1. Preludio, 2. La colomba, 3. La gallina, 4. L'usignuolo, 5. Il cucu
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Royce Hall, Westwood, CA
Hour 2
Carl Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major for Winds, Op. 7, TrV 106
Ransom Wilson, flute; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Bram Van Sambeek, b
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, New York City, NY
PT Young Artist-in-Residence: Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 102, No. 1 - I. Andante, II. Allegro
Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Eliza Ching, piano
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN
Franz Liszt: Prometheus
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
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