Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along on this weekend's Performance Today to see if you can guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Dances for Harp and String Orchestra: 2. Danse Profane
Vera Badings, harp; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
Debussy: Orchestral Music
Philips 438 742
Georg Philipp Telemann: Burlesque de Quichotte: Movements 1-7
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, artistic directors
Philadelphia, PA
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is David Hempling from San Francisco, CA
Claude Debussy: Jeux
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Hour 2
Isaac Albeniz (arr. Joseph Hagedorn): Iberia Book 1: No. 2. El puerto
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet: Pictures at an Exhibition
GPS 1026
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sinfonia in F, Wq 183/3
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor
Concert Hall, Freiburg, Germany
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano in B-flat Major, K. 502: 1. Allegro; 2. Larghetto; 3. Allegretto
Benjamin Beilman, violin; Bion Tsang, cello; Joyce Yang, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall Seattle, WA
Isaac Albeniz: Excerpts from Suite espanola No. 1, Op. 47: 5. Asturias; 3. Sevilla
Xuefei Yang, guitar
Great Mountains Music Festival, Alpensia Concert Hall, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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