Josef Suk was a composition student of Antonin Dvorak in Prague, and later became his teacher's own son-in-law. This weekend on Performance Today, we'll hear Suk's Serenade for Strings performed in Berkeley, California. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe has a musical riddle in this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Maurice Ravel (orch. Narcis Bonet): Three Hebraic Melodies, II. Mejerke, main Suhn (Chanson Hebraique)
Liat Cohen, guitar; Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; Frederic Chaslin, conductor
The Jewish Soul: Liat Cohen, guitar and The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Centaur 2537
Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-Flat major, Op. 6
New Century Chamber Orchestra
First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Elizabeth Bird from Bozeman, MT
Maurice Ravel: Kaddish
Daniel Hope, violin; Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Aspen Music Festival, Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 4 in D major, 3. Courante, 4. Menuet
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
BACH: Partita/Inventions
Nonesuch 79121
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Suite d'Alceste': 1. Marche des Combattants, 2. Menuet, 3. Loure pour les Pekheurs, 6. La Pompe Funebre, 7. La Fete Infernale: Aria 1, 8. Les Demons: Aria 2, 9. Marche des Assiegeants
Concerto Copenhagen; Jordi Savall, conductor
Garrison Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Op. 44
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, music director
Royce Hall, Westwood, CA
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Jacques Lacombe, conductor
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
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