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On Friday's Performance Today we're celebrating Valentine's Day with music and love. We'll hear a pianist in concert last month making a public declaration of love, and a quartet by Robert Schumann featuring a private, secret code of love.
Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt join host Fred Child in the studio to discuss their musical collaboration and to perform several songs from their album Night.
Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin believes that the Symphony No. 5 by Dmitri Shostakovich is both a cry and a confession; it is music that has always spoken to the most intimate part of his soul. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Nezet-Seguin lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in a concert performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 at Carnegie Hall.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Cardiff, Wales, to hear a rarely-played American gem: the jazzy Symphony No. 2 by composer Randall Thompson. Plus composer Bruce Adolphe joins us with this week's musical game, our Piano Puzzler.
When he was 17 years old, pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk was in a terrible car accident: part of his skull was crushed and he was in a coma. Now he's fully recovered and back on the concert scene, and on Tuesday's Performance Today we'll hear from a recent concert he gave in Fort Lauderdale.
American pianist Richard Goode is thoughtful, precise, and introverted, with a smart and goofy sense of humor: all of which makes him perfect for music by Mozart. On Monday's Performance Today, Goode joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20.
On this weekend's Performance Today, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us with this week's Piano Puzzler. Plus we'll go to Geneva for a concert from a remarkable venue, located in the middle of the river that runs through the city.
On the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games we'll hear from several musicians taking part in the grand opening in Sochi, including pianist Denis Matsuev, violist Yuri Bashmet, and conductor Valery Gergiev. Plus, an Olympic theme by Dmitri Shostakovich. Music for and about the Olympics, on Friday's Performance Today.
When she was a teenager, Clara Wieck loved to write music. A day before her 21st birthday, Clara Wieck married a man who was a composer himself - Robert Schumann. She wrote a few more pieces in her 30s, but for the most part she gave up composition. Coming up on Thursday's Performance Today, a concert performance of the Piano Concerto that young Clara wrote before she was Clara Schumann.
