Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune and the composer Bruce is mimicking. Play along. See if you can guess the tune and the composer.
NOTE: Through our agreement with the Mozart Week Festival, the weekend show is not available for web audio streaming. To listen to the Piano Puzzler, click here.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leos Janacek: Two movements from Glagolitic Mass
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, conductor
Anonymous: A New Hornpipe
Solamente Naturali, Milos Valent, violin and leader
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
Mark O'Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Kevin Kumar, violin, Maia Jasper, violin
Salastina Music Society, Los Angeles
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is George Sakakini from Beaufort, South Carolina
Ignaz Holzbauer: Anna's Recitative and Aria, from Gunther von Schwarzburg
Mojca Erdmann, soprano, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, David Afkham, conductor
Mozart Week, Salzburg, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two movements from Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K. 482
Emanuel Ax, piano, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor
Mozart Week, Salzburg, Austria
Hour 2
Manuel de Falla: Selections from Seven Popular Spanish Songs
Kim Kashkashian, viola, Robert Levin, piano
Nino Rota: La Passerella
The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Claude Debussy: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Nelson Freire, piano, the London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Barbican Hall, London, England
Donnacha Dennehy: He wishes his Beloved were Dead, from That the Night Come
Dawn Upshaw, soprano, the Crash Ensemble, Alan Pierson, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve Variations in B-flat, K. 500
Robert Levin, fortepiano
Mozart Week, Salzburg, Austria
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