The Performance Today tour of the Danube River is currently underway; Fred Child and PT listeners are off exploring musical landmarks. This weekend, we'll follow their path -- musically -- with a quintet written by Mozart while he lived in Salzburg. Plus, Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
The Classics - Mozart: Overtures
Virgin Classics 63284
Hans Werner Henze: I Sentimenti di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carol Wincenc, flute; Nancy Allen, harp; Attacca Quartet
Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, NY
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Sherry Mills from Austin, TX
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407
Andrew Bain, horn; Jasmine Lin, violin; Burchard Tang, viola; Nathan Cole, viola; Priscilla Lee, cello
Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, Fasig-Tipton Pavilion, Lexington, KY
Hour 2
Hans Christian Lumbye: Columbine Polka Mazurka
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Lumbye - Festival at Tivoli
Chandos 10354
Louis Spohr: Fantasia and Variations on a Theme by Danzi for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 81
Todd Palmer, clarinet; Livia Sohn and Geoff Nuttall, violins; Benjamin Beilman, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Geoff Nuttall, conductor
Bank of America's Chamber Music Series, Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Johann Christoph Pez: Concerto Pastorale
Tempesta di Mare
Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, Chestnut, Philadelphia, PA
Traditional Scandinavian: Wood Works: Ye Honest Bridal Couple / Sonderho Bridal Trilogy parts 1 & 2; Sekstur fra Vendsyssel (Den toppede hone); Waltz after Lasse in Lyby; Old Reinlender from Sonndala
Danish String Quartet
Bergen International Festival, King Haakon Hall, Bergen, Norway
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