This weekend on PT, pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins us for a conversation and music of Alexina Louie and Peter Schickele. Then we are off to Portland, OR for a performance by a string quartet from San Francisco, CA. Quartet San Francisco plays an arrangement of Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk".
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jacques Offenbach: Overture to "Rheinnixen" ("The Rhine Fairies")
The Philharmonia Orchestra with conductor Antonio de Almeida
Reynaldo Hahn: Overture to "Mozart"
The Hot Springs Festival Symphony Orchestra with conductor Rodolfo Saglimbeni
Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Michael Torke: "After the Forest Fire" for Flute, Cello, and Marimba
Flutist Marya Martin, cellist Eric Bartlett and marimbist Makoto Nakura
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
Richard Wagner: "Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey," from "Gotterdammerung"
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with conductor Riccardo Chailly
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in A, K 298
Flutist Marya Martin, violinist Martin Beaver, violist Kirsten Johnson and cellist Clive Greensmith
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, New York
Frederic Chopin: Etude in E, No. 3
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Musicians of the Music@Menlo Festival
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, California
Alexina Louie: "Memories of an Ancient Garden" from "Scenes from a Jade Terrace"
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
Peter Schickele: "Music for Orcas Island"
Violinist William Preucil, violist Aloysia Friedmann, cellist Desmond Hoebig and pianist Jon Kimura Parker
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Eastsound, Washington
Dave Brubeck: "Blue Rondo a la Turk"
Quartet San Francisco
Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
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