Performance Today®

On Monday's Performance Today, we're featuring final concert performances by three 20th century legends: violinist Nathan Milstein, conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

The Butterfly Lovers is often considered the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. It's the story of two star-crossed lovers who, after their tragic deaths, are reincarnated and reunited as butterflies. On this weekend's Performance Today we'll hear a musical interpretation of this tale performed by Gil Shaham and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

The Butterfly Lovers is often considered the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. It's the story of two star-crossed lovers who, after their tragic deaths, are reincarnated and reunited as butterflies. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear a musical interpretation of this tale performed by Gil Shaham and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

It wouldn't be New Year's Day without highlights from the annual New Year's concert in Vienna. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll go to the Musikverein to hear a sparkling Strauss waltz for the New Year.

2014 has been a great year for classical music. To celebrate the last day of the year, we'll hear your picks for the top musical moments of 2014, including a Piano Puzzler; the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, Become Ocean; a knockout performance of Rhapsody in Blue; and an onstage marriage proposal.

On Tuesday's Performance Today, Emily Reese of Top Score Podcast joins Fred in the studio to discuss the classical roots of modern video game music.

Sergei Taneyev's Symphony No. 4 is a great piece of Romantic Russian music, and it's not played nearly often enough. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra play it in concert in Rotterdam.

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin believes that composer Joseph Haydn was every bit as talented as Mozart. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear Hamelin make his case with an elegant performance of Haydn's Sonata No. 53.

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin believes that composer Joseph Haydn was every bit as talented as Mozart. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear Hamelin make his case with an elegant performance of Haydn's Sonata No. 53.