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. Is it "Stand by Your Man" in the style of Tchaikovsky? Or maybe "Do Re Mi" in the style of Arnold Schoenberg? Play along, see if you can guess the tune and the composer in this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Luigi Boccherini: Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola, and 2 Cellos, Op. 28, No. 2, G. 308 - 2. Minuetto
Pina Carmirelli and Michaela Paetsch, violins; Toby Hoffman, viola; Ramon Bolipata and Gary Hoffman, cellos
SMK 47298 "Boccherini Quintets"
Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia
Ensemble Caprice
Town Hall, Seattle, WA
Anonymous (16th Century): My Lady Carey's Dompe
Ensemble Caprice
Town Hall, Seattle, WA
Andrea Falconieri: La Follia
Ensemble Caprice
Town Hall, Seattle, WA
The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Tom Veltre from Queens, New York
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in e minor - IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non troppo
Christine Lamrprea, cello; Sphinx Symphony Orchestra; Anthony Elliott, conductor
Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, MI
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 9 in B Flat Major - I. Allegro Moderato
Lev Mamuya, cello; Sphinx Symphony Orchestra; Anthony Elliott, conductor
Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, MI
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Cosi fan tutte - Overture
Berlin Philharmonic; Daniel Barenboim, cond.
Album: Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte - Highlights Erato 94821
Guillaume Dufay: Fuga duorum temporum, "Et in terra hominibus"
Snow Consort; Bolette Roed, director
Seminar Church, Paradyz, Poland
Innocentio Alberti: Pavin of Albarti and Galliard
Hesperion XXI
Refectory, Abbaye, Fontfroide, France
Johann Paul von Westhoff: 'Imitazione delle campane' from Violin Sonata No. 3
Daniel Hope, violin; Jakob Koranyi, cello
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY
Francois Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin, Sixieme Ordre in B flat Major - 4. Le Moucheron
Angela Hewitt, piano
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
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