Yuja Wang
On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear the intense piano virtuosity of Yuja Wang from a concert in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Plus a playful piano puzzler by Bruce Adolphe.
Performance Today®
with host Valerie Kahler
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The many moods of Beethoven
On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear pianist Anton Kuerti talk about the many moods of Beethoven. Plus we'll hear him play Beethoven's "Les adieux" sonata from a spring 2011 performance in our studios.
Faure's piano quartet
On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll drop in on a concert at the Savannah Music Festival for a sprightly piano quartet by French composer Gabriel Faure.
Yuja Wang
On Wednesday's Performance Today we'll hear the intense piano virtuosity of Yuja Wang from a concert in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Plus a playful piano puzzler by Bruce Adolphe.
Rimsky-Korsakov's birthday
On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll celebrate Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's birthday by hearing his poignant, noble masterpiece: "Scheherazade." Plus we'll highlight three very different versions of his best-known piece, "Flight of the Bumblebee."
All things Irish
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Stockholm for the Italian Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn. And since Monday is a day for all things Irish, we'll also get a set of Irish tunes from the Ensemble Galilei.
From darkness to light
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is a half-hour long journey from darkness to light. Coming up on this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear it performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark.
From darkness to light
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is a half-hour long journey from darkness to light. Coming up on Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear it performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Saint-Saens' musical menagerie
Camille Saint-Saens wrote the Carnival of the Animals for a private party; he'd hoped that would be the last time it was ever heard. Of course, that's not what happened. On Thursday's Performance Today we'll hear Saint-Saens' much-loved musical menagerie from a concert in Buffalo, New York.