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Performance Today®

PT at the Aspen Festival

All week long, PT will be coming to you from the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Host Fred Child is there. We'll be featuring interviews, special on-stage events, and great performances from America's biggest summer music festival. In today's show, a gondola ride up Aspen Mountain for an informal concert, and performances by Time for Three, guitarist Sharon Isbin, flutist Marina Piccinini, the Brasil Guitar Duo, and much more.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Overture to Platee
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Astor Piazzolla: Zita
Marina Piccinini, flute, the Brasil Guitar Duo
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Felix Mendelssohn: Excerpts from a Midsummer Night's Dream
Matthew Rhys, narrator, Deanna Breiwick, soprano, Nian Wang, mezzo-soprano, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, Opera Theatre Center Singers, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Hour 2

Augustin Barrios: Julia Florida
Sharon Isbin, guitar

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304
James Ehnes, violin, Andrew Armstrong, piano
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune
The Aspen Chamber Symphony, Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Antonio Vivaldi: Second movement from Guitar Concerto in D, RV 93
Sharon Isbin, guitar, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in F for Three Violins, TWV 53:F1
Gil Shaham, Naoko Tanaka, and Adele Anthony, violins, Festival Musicians, Nicholas McGegan, conductor and harpsichord
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Johann Sebastian Bach and Time for Three: Bach Double
Time for Three
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado

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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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