Nahre Sol is a composer, pianist, and educator. She loves digging into the nitty-gritty of what makes music great... and she is also our guest host for today's show! Hear concert highlights from around the world, and a taste of Nahre Sol's explorations into composing and music theory, on this episode of Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Bravo! Chopin Piano Works
Telarc 82003
Eugene Ysaye: Sonata in G Major for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 5
Yura Lee, violin
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Jasper String Quartet & Jupiter String Quartet
WSKG Public Media, Honest Brook Music Festival, Delhi, NY
Nahre Sol: Anonymous Footsteps
Nahre Sol, piano
personal recording, provided by the artist
Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in A minor Op. 17, No. 4
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Chopin: Mazurkas
London 417584
Hour 2
Francis Poulenc: Villageoises
Gabriel Tacchino, piano
Poulenc Piano Works
EMI 62551
Gioachino Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture
Texas Festival Orchestra; Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Round Top Festival Institute, Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, TX
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44: Movements 1, 3-4
Anna Polonsky, piano; Accordo: Ruggero Allifranchini, Steven Copes, violins; Rebecca Albers, viola; Tony Ross, cello
Schubert Club, Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, MN
Francis Poulenc: Nocturne No. 1
Gabriel Tacchino, piano
Poulenc Piano Works
EMI 62551
Francis Poulenc: Nocturne No. 2
Gabriel Tacchino, piano
Poulenc: Works for Piano
EMI 62551
Francis Poulenc: Melancolie
Gabriel Tacchino, piano
Poulenc Piano Works
EMI 62551
Nahre Sol: Homage to Satie
Nahre Sol, piano
personal recording, provided by the artist
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