Performance Today

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.

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Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata

July 7, 2026 7:00 pm

Lost for 182 years and wrongly attributed to her brother Felix, Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata was finally recognized as her own in 2010. Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason highlights the work’s hymn-like textures as signatures of Fanny’s distinctive musical voice. On today’s show, Kanneh-Mason performs this long-hidden masterpiece at a concert at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in...

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    María Dueñas plays Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole

    July 8, 2026 7:00 pm

    In 2019, a 17-year-old from Spain took the stage in Estonia to perform Édouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. That performance captivated the classical world and quickly went viral. Today, at just 23, violinist María Dueñas has made Lalo’s concerto her definitive musical calling card. In today's episode, we'll travel to a concert in Granada, Spain, to hear Andrés Orozco-Estrada lead the Spanish National Orchestra, with soloist María Dueñas, in Édouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole.
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    Takemitsu's Night Signal

    July 9, 2026 7:00 pm

    Composer Toru Takemitsu says, "My music is something like a signal sent to the unknown. I imagine and believe that my signal meets another's and the resulting physical change creates a new harmony." We'll hear Takemitsu's Night Signal featuring the brass section of the Minnesota Orchestra on this episode of Performance Today.