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Eternity in your Hands

We're continuing our week-long look at the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vermont. Co-artistic director Mitsuko Uchida sums up the magic of the place: "Time passes very slowly in Marlboro, and at the same time very fast. You blink, and seven weeks are gone. But it seems as if you had eternity in your hands." We'll hear a couple of standout Marlboro performances today. Plus, the New York Philharmonic, at home and on the road in Hanoi.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Felix Mendelssohn: Intermezzo from String Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 13
The Juilliard String Quartet

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Rhine Church Festival Dances
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England

Michael Praetorius: Four Dances from the Late Renaissance
The Georgia Guitar Quartet
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia

Witold Lutoslawski: Excerpt from Dance Preludes
Musicians from the Music Academy of the West
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California

The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Chuck Lavazzi from St. Louis, Missouri

Felix Mendelssohn: Scherzo in G Minor from Octet for Strings
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi, Vietnam

George Gershwin: An American in Paris
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City

Hour 2

Robert Schumann: Selections from Carnaval, Op. 9
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, S. 104
The Marlboro Festival Orchestra
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont

Johannes Brahms: The Sea, from Three Duets, Op. 20
Susanna Phillips, soprano, Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano, Lydia Brown, piano
Marlboro Music Festival, Marlboro, Vermont

Franz Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock, D. 965
Benita Valente, soprano, Harold Wright, clarinet, Rudolf Serkin, piano

Gustav Mahler: First movement from Piano Quartet (unfinished)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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