All summer long we have featured great music inspired by distinctive American places. On Friday's Performance Today, our summer road trip reaches its final stop. We'll hear a new piece by Timothy Mahr called "by blue lake, listening, dreaming" -- music that describes a very special setting in Michigan's Manistee National Forest.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Franz Schubert: Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780, C# minor: 4. Moderato
Shai Wosner, piano
MPR Recording
Jozef Krogulski: Piano Octet in D minor, Op.6
Nelson Goerner, piano; Lena Neudauer, Erzhan Kulibaev, violins; Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka, viola; Marcin Zdunik, cello; Slawomir Rozloch, dbl bass; Jan Krzeszowiec, flute; Radoslaw Soroka, clarinet
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Witold Lugoslawki Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Franz Schubert (arr. Dan Graser): Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703
Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet
Rockport Music Festival, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Timothy Mahr: by blue lake, listening, dreaming
The St. Olaf Band; Timothy Mahr, conductor
St. Olaf College, Skoglund Center Auditorium, Northfield, MN
Hour 2
Richard Wagner: Romanza (Albumblatt)
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin; Robert Koenig, piano
Heartbreak, Romantic Encores for Violin
Dorian 90268
George Frederic Handel: Concerto Grosso in D Minor, HWV 328: Movements 1, 4, 5
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Willi Zimmerman, concertmaster
Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Elliot Cole: Postlude, No. 8
Richard Brown, Riely Francis, Craig Hausschildt, Tom Sherwood, bowed vibraphone; Grand Teton Music Festival Chamber Musicians
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village, WY
Wes Price: Negative Space
Seattle Rock Orchestra; Kim Roy, music director; Scott Teske, artistic director and founder
Second Inversion, Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
New Century Chamber Orchestra; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, music director and concertmaster
First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA
Louis Alter and Eddie DeLange: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Ellis Marsalis, piano; Makoto Ozone, piano
Pure Pleasure for the Piano
EmArcy
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