She may be just turning 20 this year, but French pianist Lise de la Salle has skill and interpretive depth far beyond her years. We'll hear her in concert in Metz, France, performing Camille Saint-Saens' Second Piano Concerto with conductor Jack Martin Handler and the Luxembourg European Soloists.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Vittorio Monti: Csardas
Violinist Josef Sakonov with the London Festival Orchestra
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Quartet for Flute, Viola, Cello and Piano, Wq 94
Flutist Lorna McGhee, violist David Harding, cellist David Hardy and pianist Katherine Collier
Strings in the Mountains, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 5 for Piano, Four Hands
Pianists Jeremy Denk and Benjamin Hochman
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
Camille Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
Pianist Lise de la Salle with the Luxembourg European Soloists and conductor Jack Martin Handler
Arsenal Hall, Metz, France
Hour 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "A Scene at a Fair" from Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33, No. 7, and "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" from Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 6
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra with conductor Yoav Talmi
Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus No. 9
The New Century Saxophone Quartet
Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 30 in C, Hob I/30 ("Alleluia")
The Aspen Chamber Symphony with conductor Nicholas McGegan
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Third movement from Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Orquestra de Sao Paulo with conductor John Neschling
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Second movement from Piano Concerto "No. 5"
Pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy with the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Theodore Kuchar
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