Poster Fred at Phelps Lake
Fred at Phelps Lake
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Performance Today®

from the Grand Teton Music Festival

The Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming is an annual celebration of music in a stunning mountain location. On this episode of Performance Today we'll hear music and conversation from a special PT event featuring Mendelssohn's Piano Trio at the 2017 festival in the Tetons.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonia No. 9 and Three-Part Sinfonia No. 12
Jeffery Kahane, piano
Bach: Partita No. 4; Three-Part Inventions
Nonesuch 79121

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe d'amore in A Major, BWV 1055R (excerpt)
James Austin Smith, oboe d'amore; Livia Sohn, violin; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio (excerpt)
Eva Cappelletti Chao, violin; David Garrett, cello; Andrew Palmer Todd, piano
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Hour 2

Alberto Ginastera: Impresiones de la Puna, II. Cancion and III. Danza
Eugenia Zukerman, flute; The Shanghai Quartet
Music for a Sunday Morning
Delos 3173

Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano
Carol Wincenc, flute; Orion Weiss, piano
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, CO

Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes, Op. 23
Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Norman Huynh, conductor
Spoleto Festival USA, St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina

Clara Schumann: Romanze, from Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
Kirill Gerstein, piano; Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello
Springer Auditorium, Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH

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