Performance Today®

Listen to in-studio interviews with host Fred Child and exclusive musical performances by violinist Boson Mo and pianist Andrew Staupe.

Renaud and Gautier Capucon are celebrities in their native France. This is hardly surprising, given that the two brothers are smart, photogenic, and deeply talented. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear from a concert they gave in the birthplace of celebrity: Los Angeles.

When you hear dramatic strings in a movie soundtrack, you can thank Erich Korngold. In the 1930s, he helped create the template for the Hollywood movie score. On Monday's Performance Today you may recognize the same epic sound in Korngold's Violin Concerto, which we'll hear from a concert in Stockholm, Sweden.

Violinist Hilary Hahn recently got twenty-seven composers to write encores for her. On this weekend's Performance Today we'll hear more about the motivation behind her project, as well four of these newly-composed pieces.

Violinist Hilary Hahn recently got twenty-seven composers to write encores for her. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear more about the motivation behind her project, as well four of these newly-composed pieces.

On Thursday's Performance Today, Canadian pianist Louis Lortie joins Fred in the studio to discuss the art of coaxing curves at the keyboard, and to perform Wagner's famous Liebestod.

French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie joins host Fred Child to talk about coaxing nuance out of a percussive instrument, and to perform music by Wagner.

American mandolin virtuoso Mike Marshall is a big fan of both bluegrass and Bach. So when the New Century Chamber Orchestra asked him to write a new piece, he drew on these two musical styles for inspiration. On Wednesday's Performance Today we'll hear the resulting piece, Marshall's Mandolin Concerto No. 1.

It's been a busy spring for 20-year-old American pianist Conrad Tao; he's given concerts in China, all around the US, and in Europe. On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll catch up with Tao in concert in Stockholm, Sweden, where we'll hear him play George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F.