Summer is winding down in the Rocky Mountains. The wildflowers are just beginning to fade. But there is still one more week of great music at the 2012 Aspen Festival. PT host Fred Child is there. All week, we'll feature compelling interviews and terrific performances from a mile and a half above sea level at the Aspen Festival.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C Minor for Strings and Harpsichord RV 119f
Capella Savaria, Nicholas McGegan, harpsichord and conductor
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
The Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Morten Lauridsen: Contre qui, Rose (Against whom, Rose)
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson, director
Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas
Traditional: Improvisation on Hvilket Postbud en Due (Which Postman a Dove)
Bolette Roed, recorder
Music in Paradise Festival, Paradyz, Poland
Johann Sebastian Bach: Piano Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052
Inon Barnatan, piano, festival musicians, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Hour 2
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 4 in F, Op. 15, No. 1
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Philip Phile and Alexander Reinagle: Music of the Early Republic
The American Brass Quintet
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
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