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In 1915, Manuel de Falla wrote music based on an old Spanish legend. It's a classic boy-meets-girl story... except the girl is haunted by her dead husband. On Thursday's Performance Today, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet plays Falla's El Amor Brujo ("Love, the Sorcerer").
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin loves playing a particular piano sonata by Franz Schubert. He says, "It's one of my greatest friends... I can't do without it." On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear Marc-Andre Hamelin play Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major from a concert in Fort Worth, Texas.
A few years ago violinist Hilary Hahn made some cold calls asking big-name composers for one-of-a-kind encores. Hear a happy result of those cold calls on Tuesday's Performance Today.
The Calder Quartet have been together for nearly 20 years, so they like to spice things up. They play at traditional concert venues, but also perform in places like rock clubs. On Monday's Performance Today, learn more about the Calder Quartet, and hear them perform Debussy's one and only string quartet.
Timotheos Petrin left his home country of Greece to go to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia... and he's starting to feel at home. On Friday's Performance Today, join us for a discussion with cellist Timotheos Petrin, and hear him play music by Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff.
Timotheos Petrin left his home country of Greece to go to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia... and he's starting to feel at home. On Friday's Performance Today, join us for a discussion with cellist Timotheos Petrin, and hear him play music by Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff.
Our PT Young Artist in Residence, cellist Tim Petrin, grew up in Greece... and he often misses the beauty of his home. On Thursday's Performance Today, Tim Petrin shares memories of Greece and plays a cello sonata by Cesar Franck.
Timotheos Petrin is a cellist, and also a painter. For him, the two forms of art are connected. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we talk with PT Young Artist in Residence Timotheos Petrin, and hear him perform music by Gabriel Faure.
Join host Fred Child for in-studio interviews with cellist/painter Timotheos Petrin, as well as exclusive musical performances.
