At 25 years old, Narek Hakhnazaryan is one of the great young cellists in the world today. He won a Gold Medal at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow despite receiving a notoriously offensive slight from a conductor. Hakhnazaryan has put all of that behind him and now he's introducing himself to the finest orchestras around the world. On Monday's Performance Today we'll catch up with him in Hamburg, Germany, playing the Cello Concerto by Robert Schumann.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Robert Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 - No. 17 Wie aus der Ferne
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Album: Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Fantasie; Decca 4782280 (001508902)
George Frideric Handel: Suite No. 3 from Water Music 1717 for Recorder, Violins, Viola, and Basso Continuo, HWV 350
REBEL Ensemble - Matthias Maute, recorder; Jorg-Michael Schwarz, violin; Karen Marie Marmer, violin; Mary Utiger, violin; Thomas Rink, viola; John Moran, cello; Eberhard Maldfeld, double bass; Dongsok
Auditorium of the Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello; North German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Nicholas Milton, conductor
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Oscar Levant: Blame It On My Youth
Kirill Gerstein, piano; Gary Burton, vibraphone
Chenery Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI
Hour 2
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 57 in F Major, Hob. XVI/47 - I.
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Album: Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2; Teldec 35794
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 - I. Allegro non troppo, II.Allegro appassionato
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano; New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F Major - I. Allegro vivace
Timothy Kantor, violin; Clare Longendyke, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
Louis Armstrong; arr. David Jolley:: Yes, I'm in the Barrel
Windscape - Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Randall Ellis, oboe; Alan R. Kay, clarinet; Frank Morelli, bassoon; David Jolley, horn
John C. Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
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