Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a great composer. One of our listeners calls in, tries to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Tune in and play along with our weekly musical game: the Piano Puzzler.
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
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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution.
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