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the pressler connection

The Beaux Arts Trio's days may be drawing to a close, but fortunately much-loved pianist Menahem Pressler has no plans to retire. One of the greatest chamber musicians of our time, a concert at Lincoln Center featuring him was billed as "The Pressler Connection." We'll hear a performance of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet from that concert.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Cossack Dance" from "Mazeppa"
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Erich Kunzel

Anonymous: "Nutmegs and Ginger" from the Matthew Holmes manuscripts
The Baltimore Consort
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Bassoon and Cello in B-flat, K. 292
Bassoonist Peter Kolkay and cellist Edward Arron
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina

"The Piano Puzzler"
This week's contestant is Marilyn Wallace from Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia

Peter Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
The Hungarian Symphony Orchestra with conductor Janos Kovacs
Palace of the Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Hour 2

Maurice Ravel: Second movement from "Three Hebraic Melodies"
Guitarist Liat Cohen and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra with conductor Frederic Chaslin

Franz Schubert: Quintet in A for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, Op. 114, D. 667, "The Trout"
Pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Arnaud Sussmann, violist Beth Guterman, cellist Gary Hoffman, and bassist Daxun Zhang
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York

Maurice Ravel: "Menuet Antique"
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Matthias Pintscher
Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

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