He tilted at windmills and went to battle with armies of sheep. Miguel de Cervantes' mad hero, Don Quixote, has been a classic literary figure since the early 1600s. In today's show, a full hour of nothing but the Don and his faithful sidekick, Sancho Panza, in works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Richard Strauss.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Manuel de Falla: Excerpts from Popular Spanish Suite
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Marquis de Ferriol: Turkish Concerto in the Hijaz Scale
Armonico Tributo and Sarband
St. James's Church, Bruges, Belgium
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is David Anderson from Lawton, Oklahoma.
Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme in A, Op. 33
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Johann Sebastian Bach: Bouree from Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Hour 2
Leon Minkus: Excerpt from Don Quijote
The Sofia National Opera Orchestra, Boris Spassov, conductor
Georg Philipp Telemann: Excerpts from Don Quixote, Suite for Strings and Continuo
Festival Musicians
Music from Angel Fire, Taos, New Mexico
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184
Gautier Capucon, cello, Ilan Schneider, viola, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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