Poster Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Mathias Bothor
Performance Today®

New Classical Tracks...and Sammy

Every Thursday this month, Julie Amacher joins Fred to recommend a new classical CD. This week, Julie is in love with conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and the under-25 players in the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Plus, we'll meet Sammy, the tiny white fluffball of a dog who goes everywhere with American pianist Anne Marie McDermott.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C Minor, RV 441
Ensemble Rebel with Matthias Maute, recorder

Alan Shulman: "Rendezvous"
The Jasper String Quartet with clarinetist Paul Won Jin Cho
Morse Recital Hall, New Haven, Connecticut

Charles Trenet: "April in Paris"
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Georg Philipp Telemann: Polonaises
Ensemble Caprice
Town Hall, Seattle

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120
The Cleveland Orchestra with conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
Severance Hall, Cleveland

Hour 2

Johann Sebastian Bach: Excerpts from English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott

Henry Du Mont: "When I am Away from You"
Viola da gambists Erin Headley and Anne-Marie Lasla and organist Kristian Bezuidenhout
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston

Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Flutist Tom Ottar Andreassen, violist Jon Wien Sonstebo, and harpist Sidsel Walstad
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway

"New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher": New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher

Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2
The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra with conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 54 in G, Hob. XVI:40
Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
OK Mozart Festival, Bartlesville Oklahoma

Felix Mendelssohn: Three Songs for Violin and Piano, Op. 34, No. 2
Violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Sebastian Knauer
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia

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