Thursday July 17, 2003

Performance Today

Music Review: Tartini Violin Concertos

July 17, 2003 • David Hurwitz is Executive Editor at ClassicsToday.com. He joins Fred Child to talk about a new recording of music by Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770).

Music Review: Tartini Violin Concertos

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Tuesday July 15, 2003

Performance Today

Vieaux, Shanghai & Child

July 15, 2003 • Performing Luigi Boccherini's (1743-1805)Guitar Quintet in D Major is the Shanghai Quartet with guitarist Jason Vieaux, and guest percussionist Fred Child, playing castanets. The concert took place in Richmond, Virginia, where Fred was also on hand to tell the audience about each piece of music on the program.

Vieaux, Shanghai & Child

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Thursday June 26, 2003

Performance Today

Live in Studio 4A

June 26, 2003 • Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi join Fred Child in NPR's Studio 4A for the first of two conversations (today and tomorrow) about the music Gabriel Faure wrote for violin and piano. Faure isn't in the same category as, for example, Beethoven and Mozart, but when it comes to his violin music, many fiddlers place him on a high pedestal. Shaham and Eguchi play three short pieces for violin and piano -- Faure's "Berceuse," "Romance," and "Morceau."

Live in Studio 4A

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Tuesday June 10, 2003

Performance Today

O'Riley & Radiohead

June 10, 2003 • A new CD by pianist Christopher O'Riley is being released on the Sony Classical label today. O'Riley has done his own solo piano transcriptions of songs by the English art-rock band Radiohead. A year ago, O'Riley stopped by NPR's Studio 4A to play some of the songs and talk Fred Child about the project.

O'Riley & Radiohead

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Friday May 16, 2003

Live in Studio 4A: Gil and Orli Shaham

May 16, 2003 • Orli and Gil Shaham have not performed together in public as often as one might suspect. Apparently, their parents discouraged them from doing so. As Orli Shaham explains to NPR's Fred Child, she was "just ready to come out of the sandbox" when Gil was already started on a career. So, instead of tagging along with her big brother, she has become a renowned and respected concert pianist in her own right.

Live in Studio 4A: Gil and Orli Shaham

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Thursday May 15, 2003

Performance Today

Takacs Quartet in Studio 4A

May 15, 2003 • The Takacs Quartet spends the rest of the hour in the studio with Fred Child, talking about their recent Grammy win, and the life of the ensemble over the past 28 years. The Quartet plays Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) String Quartet in C, Op. 54, No. 2.

Takacs Quartet in Studio 4A

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Performance Today

Takacs plays Mozart

May 15, 2003 • We're spending the hour with one of the best string quartets performing today, the Takacs Quartet. Before the Quartet joins Fred Child in NPR's Studio 4A, we hear them on CD. From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) Quartet No. 17, nicknamed "The Hunt," we hear the Minuet movement.

Takacs plays Mozart

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Friday May 9, 2003

Performance Today

The Children of Willesden Lane

May 9, 2003 • We note Mother's Day as writer and pianist Mona Golabek joins Fred Child in the studio to talk about her new book, The Children of Willesden Lane. It traces her family's passion for music back three generations. The story begins in the shadow of the Holocaust, as her grandmother sends her mother away from Austria, with a command to always keep music close to her heart. We also hear Mona Golbek play some of the music that was most important to her mother, including Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) and Edvard Grieg (1843-1907).

The Children of Willesden Lane

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Performance Today

Letters & Comments

May 9, 2003 • Many listeners wrote in response to this week's Piano Puzzler with Bruce Adolphe, in which neither our guest on the phone nor Fred Child could guess the tune Bruce was playing. Fred reads from several letters.

Letters & Comments

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Monday April 28, 2003

Simon Rattles Beethoven

April 28, 2003 • Sir Simon Rattle joins Fred Child to talk about Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, as our Beethoven symphony series continues.

Friday April 18, 2003

Performance Today

Simon Wraps Up Beethoven

April 18, 2003 • Today concludes our series of all nine Beethoven Symphonies on Performance Today. Simon Rattle joins Fred Child one last time for reflections on Beethoven and the Vienna Philharmonic.

Simon Wraps Up Beethoven

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Thursday April 17, 2003

Performance Today

Simon Rattles Beethoven

April 17, 2003 • Sir Rattle is back to talk with Fred Child about Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Then we hear movements 3, 4 and 5 of the Symphony No. 9, with Rattle conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

Simon Rattles Beethoven

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Wednesday April 16, 2003

Performance Today

Simon Rattles Beethoven

April 16, 2003 • Conductor Sir Simon Rattle joins us once again to introduce the next Beethoven symphony in our series. Today he talks with Fred Child about the Symphony No. 8.

Simon Rattles Beethoven

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Tuesday April 15, 2003

Performance Today

Simon Rattles Beethoven

April 15, 2003 • Our Beethoven Symphony series continues today with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Simon Rattle. Simon again joins Fred Child to introduce the seventh symphony.

Simon Rattles Beethoven

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Monday April 14, 2003

Performance Today

Simon Rattles Beethoven

April 14, 2003 • Sir Simon Rattle joins Fred Child to talk about Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, as our Beethoven symphony series continues.

Simon Rattles Beethoven

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