Italian composer Nino Rota is best known for the soundtracks he composed for more than 170 films...but, he also wrote operas, ballets, choral music. On today's show, hear a piece that Nino Rota wrote in 1943, before he became really famous for his film scores.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Alyssa Morris: Motion: Movement 1 Bike Ride (2010)
Alyssa Morris, oboe | Elizabeth Darling, flute | Andrea Vos-Rochefort, clarinet | Jessica Findley Yang, bassoon
Album: Alyssa Morris - A Higher Place
MSR Classics 1668

Alyssa Morris: Tlapalli, Tlahuilli, Sinfonia Concertante
ROCO | Ward Stare, conductor
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, TX

Piano Puzzler
Contestant: Duncan Holmes from Fredericksburg, TX

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 40 in F Major, Op. 50, No. 5 "The Dream"
Omer Quartet
Honest Brook Music Festival, Honest Brook Farm, Delaware County, New York, NY

Hour 2

Charles Gounod, arr. Damien Sneed: Ave Maria
Randall Goosby, violin | Damien Sneed, piano
Album: The Three Sides of Damien Sneed: Classical, Jazz and Sanctified Soul
LeChateau Earl Records

Nino Rota: Piccola Offerta Musicale for Wind Quintet
Marya Martin, flute | Kemp Jernigan, oboe | Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet | Peter Kolkay, bassoon | Stewart Rose, horn
Bridgehampton Chamber Music, Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, NY

George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G Major, Op. 6
Strings Festival Orchestra | John Macfarlane, conductor
Strings Music Festival, Strings Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, CO

Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18
Randall Goosby, violin | Zhu Wang, piano
Honest Brook Music Festival, Honest Brook Farm, Delhi, NY