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Performance Today®

A musical puzzle

Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along on this weekend's Performance Today to see if you can guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claude Debussy: Dances for Harp and String Orchestra: 2. Danse Profane
Vera Badings, harp; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
Debussy: Orchestral Music
Philips 438 742

Georg Philipp Telemann: Burlesque de Quichotte: Movements 1-7
Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone, artistic directors
Philadelphia, PA

The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is David Hempling from San Francisco, CA

Claude Debussy: Jeux
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

Hour 2

Isaac Albeniz (arr. Joseph Hagedorn): Iberia Book 1: No. 2. El puerto
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet: Pictures at an Exhibition
GPS 1026

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sinfonia in F, Wq 183/3
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor
Concert Hall, Freiburg, Germany

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano in B-flat Major, K. 502: 1. Allegro; 2. Larghetto; 3. Allegretto
Benjamin Beilman, violin; Bion Tsang, cello; Joyce Yang, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall Seattle, WA

Isaac Albeniz: Excerpts from Suite espanola No. 1, Op. 47: 5. Asturias; 3. Sevilla
Xuefei Yang, guitar
Great Mountains Music Festival, Alpensia Concert Hall, Pyeongchang, South Korea

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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.

Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.

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