Performance Today®

Richard Wagner's operas are so dramatic, they're sometimes an inch away from self-parody. On Tuesday's Performance Today, the Cleveland Orchestra gives a serious (and seriously great) performance of the Ride of the Valkyries. Plus, we'll hear a bit of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd's take on Wagner as well.

You know how you sometimes put something down and then you just can't remember where you left it? It happens to us all -- even composers. In the 1760s, Joseph Haydn lost a cello concerto. And that concerto was missing until the 1960s -- two full centuries later! On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a performance of Haydn's long-lost Cello Concerto from a concert in Los Angeles.

Violinist Yoojin Jang hated practicing when she was a kid. But she always loved performing -- even if only for her mom in the kitchen. Jang is our newest Young Artist in Residence, and this weekend she'll join Fred in the studio to discuss her earliest kitchen performances and to play music by Jean Sibelius.

Violinist Yoojin Jang hated practicing when she was a kid. But she always loved performing -- even if only for her mom in the kitchen. Jang is our newest Young Artist in Residence, and on Friday she'll join Fred in the studio to discuss her earliest kitchen performances and more.

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear two musical pictures about nature; both are delicate late Romantic masterpieces. Plus Yoojin Jang, our newest Young Artist, joins us for day two of her PT residency.

On Wednesday's PT, we'll meet our brand new Young Artist in Residence -- violinist Yoojin Jang. She'll join Fred in the studio for conversation and music, including a performance of Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 1.

Listen to in-studio interviews with host Fred Child and exclusive musical performances by violinist Yoojin Jang.

On Tuesday's Performance Today, we have two great violin concertos. First, Janine Jansen teams up with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for a performance of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1. Then, we'll hear Joel Link solo with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4.

Joseph Haydn wrote his String Quartet No. 50 for four players -- but not these four players. Coming up on Monday's Performance Today, well hear the Amstel Saxophone Quartet playing their version of Haydn's string quartet in concert in Los Angeles.