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What's your favorite Mozart work? Mozart himself addressed that question, and he picked his Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds as his best. We'll hear it performed today by pianist Jon Kimura Parker and members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, from a concert given in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G Minor
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Leonard Bernstein

Antonin Dvorak: "I Know That on My Love to Thee" from "Cypresses"
The Hagen Quartet
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany

John King: "Shuffle"
Ethel
Windham Chamber Music Festival, Windham, New York

"The Piano Puzzler": This week's contestant is Anne Kocsis from Orchard Hill, Georgia

Antonin Dvorak: "The Water Sprite," Op. 107
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Petr Altrichter
Janacek Theatre, Brno, Czech Republic

Hour 2

Frederic Chopin: Etude in E, Op. 10, No. 3
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Flight of the Bumblebee"
Pianist Olga Kern
Portland International Piano Festival, Portland, Oregon

Joseph Schwantner: "Black Anemones"
Flutist Leonard Garrison and pianist Jay Mauchley
Red Lodge Civic Center, Red Lodge, Montana

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker and members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from "Les Indes Galantes"
The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic with conductor Ton Koopman
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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