Trolls, goblins, and gnomes. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll join them all in the Hall of the Mountain King, when we hear Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite performed at the Artosphere Festival. Then, we'll head to New York to hear two special pieces: one old, one new...but both blue.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
George Gershwin (arr. Brad Dechter): Someone To Watch Over Me
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
Serenade: The Love Album
E One 7792
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Artosphere Festival Orchestra; Corrado Rovaris, conductor
Artosphere Festival, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
Variously Blue
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Jennifer Choi, violin; Alexandra Joan, piano
le poisson rouge, New York, NY
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Eldar Djangirov, piano
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham Civic Centre, Windham, NY
Hour 2
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97: 3. Nicht Schnell
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Schumann the Complete Symphonies, Mahler Edition
London/Decca 4780037
Eric Whitacre: Sleep
Minnesota High School Honors Choir; VocalEssence; St. Olaf Choir; Eric Whitacre, conductor
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphony in D Major, JC 14
Milano Classica; Marcello Scandelli, director and first cellist
Savannah Friends of Music, First Baptist Church, Savannah, GA
Max Bruch: Romance for Viola and Orchestra
Janine Jansen, violin; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Mendelsson, Bruch, Concertos and Romances
Decca 475 8328
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Janine Jansen, violin; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Mendelsson, Bruch, Concertos and Romances
Decca 475 8328
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