Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune, and the composer Bruce is mimicking. Is it "Stand by Your Man" in the style of Tchaikovsky? Or maybe "Do Re Mi" in the style of Arnold Schoenberg? Play along, see if you can guess the tune and the composer in this week's Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third movement from Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 (368b)
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Paul McCartney: Here, There, and Everywhere
Frank Gabriel Campos, trumpet, Nicholas Walker, bass
Hockett Hall, Ithaca, New York
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Doug Griggs from Georgetown, Kentucky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Simon Rattle, conductor
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: Third movement from Trumpet Concerto in E-flat
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet, the English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, conductor
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for String Orchestra
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 60 in C, Hob. XVI:50
Mariangela Vacatello, piano
International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
Claude Debussy: Jardins sous la Pluie (Gardens in the Rain), from Estampes
Mariangela Vacatello, piano
International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
Maurice Ravel: Kaddish
Daniel Hope, violin, Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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