On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll celebrate Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's birthday by hearing his poignant, noble masterpiece: "Scheherazade." Plus we'll highlight three very different versions of his best-known piece, "Flight of the Bumblebee."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy: 3. Rufford Park Poachers
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
Music for Band by Percy Grainger
Reference 117
Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland
Amstel Saxophone Quartet
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louis Spohr: Nonet in F Major, Op. 31
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Philip Myers, horn; Glenn Dicterow, violin; Teng Li, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Marji Danilow,
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Frank Ticheli: San Antonio Dances: 1. Alamo Gardens; 2. Tex-Mex on the Riverwalk
Dallas Wind Symphony; Frank Ticheli, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX
Hour 2
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor, Op 3 No. 11, RV 565 :Movements 3, 4
Daniel Hope, violin; Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Daniel Hope plays Vivaldi
DG 4777463
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Makoto Nakura): Flight of the Bumblebee
Makoto Nakura, marimba
Young Concert Artists and Symphonyspace, Symphonyspace, New York, NY
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
Miami International Piano Festival, Amaturo Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Canadian Brass
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Fortepiano, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1027
Jonathan Cohen, cello; Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Savannah Music Festival, Trinity United Methodist Church, Savannah, GA
Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter: Four Seasons: Autumn 3
Daniel Hope, violin; Concert House Chamber Orchestra of Berlin; Andre de Ridder, conductor
Recomposed by Max Richter - Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
DG 4765040
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Symphonic Suite, Op. 35: 3. Andantino quasi allegretto; 4. Allegro molto
Glenn Dicterow, violin; New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
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