Performance Today for Monday, February 18, 2008
John Knowles Paine: Funeral March in Memory of President Lincoln, Op. 9 Pianist Denver Oldham
John Knowles Paine: Funeral March in Memory of President Lincoln, Op. 9 Pianist Denver Oldham
Georges Bizet: "La fleur que tu m'avais jetee" from "Carmen" Tenor Jonas Kaufmann with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Marco Armiliato
Ludwig van Beethoven: Third movement from Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93 The Minnesota Orchestra with conductor Osmo Vanska
Richard Rodgers: "My Romance" from "Jumbo" Oboist Suzanne Lemieux with Symphony Nova Scotia and conductor Howard Cable
George Frideric Handel: Overture and Sinfonia to Act III from "Serse" The Hanover Band with conductor Nicholas McGegan
The Calder Quartet plays some Philip Glass before one of the most exhilarating works in the classical canon - Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony - is performed in Prague by Pavel Safarik and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Alain Altinoglu leads the French National Orchestra in a Chausson symphony in Paris. And pianist Claude Frank plays Bach.
We'll have music and conversation with some of the freshly crowned classical Grammy winners, including composers Joan Tower and Peter Lieberson, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, violinist James Ehnes, and members of Eighth Blackbird and the Turtle Island Quartet. And we'll go to Amsterdam to hear Neeme Jarvi lead the Hague Philharmonic in Sibelius' Fifth Symphony.
Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring" Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Aria from the prologue of "The Snow Maiden" Soprano Anna Netrebko with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and conductor Valery Gergiev
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