Douglas Lora and Joao Luiz met when they were teenagers, and have been playing guitar together for almost 20 years as the Brasil Guitar Duo. On Tuesday's Performance Today, hear them perform an arrangement of "A Fala Da Paixao" (Passion Talk) by Egberto Gismonti, from a concert in New York City.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Fuga elegiaca: Preludio and Fuga
Brasil Guitar Duo
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2
Naxos 570779
Leos Janacek: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, "From The Street"
Deirbhile Brennan, piano
The Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, Van Cliburn Recital Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Carter Brey, cello; New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Egberto Gismonti, arr. Joao Luiz: A fala da paixao
Brasil Guitar Duo
Americas Society, New York, NY
Hour 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4 Movement 4 Allegro
Orion String Quartet
Orion String Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets
Koch 7682
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Bud Powell (arr. Mateusz Smoczynski): Bouncin' with Bud
Turtle Island Quartet
Second Inversion, KING FM Studios, Seattle, WA
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica": Movements 2-4
Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Jones Hall, Houston, TX
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