According to conductor Leonard Slatkin, leading an orchestra is a bit like being the coach of a football team. On Thursday's Performance Today, Coach Slatkin will tell us more about the curious art of conducting.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1: 3. Fuga
Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
Naxos 557470
Antonin Dvorak: Miniatures for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 75a
Sandy Yamamoto, violin; Karen Kim, violin; Maurycy Banaszek, viola
Skaneateles Festival, First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Prelude No. 3
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
Concert Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44: Movements 2-3
RTE Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Gourlay, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Hour 2
Marc-Andre Hamelin: Landler I, from Con intimissimo sentimento & Little Nocturne
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Etudes
Hyperion 67789
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp; Alexa Still, flute; Richard Hawkins, clarinet; Jupiter Quartet
Oberlin Artist Recital Series presented by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Finney Chapel, Oberlin, OH
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: Movements 4-5
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli, Supplement, S. 162
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
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