Edicson Ruiz was born in 1985, in Caracas, Venezuela. He began playing double bass when he was 11 years old. Just six years later, Ruiz became the youngest-ever member of the Berlin Philharmonic. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Edicson Ruiz - front and center - with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, performing a concertante for double bass by Nino Rota.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Nino Rota: The Godfather: Suite
James Galway, flute; Galway Pops Orchestra; Vincent Fanuele, conductor
Galway At The Movies
RCA 61326
Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov): Night on Bald Mountain
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Jozef Krogulski: Piano Octet in D minor, Op.6: Movement 4
Nelson Goerner, piano; Lena Neudauer, violin; Erzhan Kulibaev, violin; Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka, viola; Marcin Zdunik, cello; Slawomir Rozloch, double bass
10th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Witold Lugoslawki Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Nino Rota: Divertimento concertante
Edicson Ruiz, double bass; Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra; Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg
Hour 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations: Aria
Igor Levit, piano
Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski
Sony 6096
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Miami String Quartet
Virginia Arts Festival, Robin Hixon Theater, Clay and Jay Barr Education Center, Norfolk, VA
Robert Schumann (arr. Franz Liszt): Widmung
Thomas Yu, piano
The Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, Van Cliburn Recital Hall, Fort Worth, TX
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Igor Levit, piano; SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg; Tito Munoz, conductor
20th Heidelberg Spring Festival, Congress House, Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany
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