On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Joshua Roman play Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations - a theme with a set of elegant and virtuosic variations for cello and orchestra. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Ayres
American Brass Quintet; John D. Rojak, conductor
BPL Chamber Players Concert Series, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Nichael Cramer from Guilford, VT
Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz. 119
Anna Vinnitskaya, piano; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Marek Janowski, conductor
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Hour 2
Moritz Moszkowski: Suite for Two Violins and Piano in g minor, Op. 71 (these are the excerpts they approved): Movement 1, 4
Grigory Kalinovsky, violin; Masha Lakisova, violin; Dina Vainshtein, piano
Heifetz International Music Institute, Francis Auditorium, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Joshua Roman, cello; Bellingham Festival Orchestra; Michael Palmer, conductor
Bellingham Festival of Music, Western Washington University Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution.
Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.
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