Several musical highlights today, among them: an elegant performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 2 from the 2009 Aspen Music Festival. Gil Shaham solos, David Zinman conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra. An athletic performance of Three Movements from Petrushka, the finger-twister for pianists by Igor Stravinsky. Alexei Volodin in concert at the Ernen Festival in Switzerland. And the Georgia Guitar Quartet plays their version of Vince Guaraldi's Christmas classic, "Linus and Lucy," in concert in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. Fred also throws in a quick examination of the bizarre "Jews Harp" concertos, by Johann Albrechtsberger.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonin Dvorak: Excerpts from Romantic Pieces, Op. 75, B 150
Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham
Traditional: "Sailor's Hornpipe,""Crossing the Minch," and "Asturian Reels"
Fiddler Bonnie Rideout, piper Jerry O'Sullivan, and friends
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Vince Guaraldi: "Linus and Lucy"
The Georgia Guitar Quartet
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: "Jubilemus Salvatori"
Domkantorei St Polten and Solamente Naturali of Bratislava with conductor Otto Kargl
Cathedral, St Polten, Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211
Violinist Gil Shaham with the Aspen Festival Orchestra and conductor David Zinman
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Igor Stravinsky: Excerpts from "Petrushka"
Pianist Alexei Volodin
Ernen Festival, Ernen, Switzerland
Alexander Gretchaninoff: "Nunc Dimittis"
The St. Olaf College Combined Choirs with conductor Sigrid Johnson
St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Northfield, Minnesota
Hour 2
Georges Bizet: "Danse Boheme" from "Carmen"
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with conductor Leonard Slatkin
Steve Barnett: "For the Miracles"
The Dale Warland Singers with conductor Jerry Rubino
Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Naftule Brandwein: "The Hot Bulgar," from Three Traditional Klezmer Songs
Trio Solisti with clarinetist Alan Kay
Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas
Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in A, Op. 118, No. 2
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Gustav Holst: "Jesu Fili Virgine"
Ars Nova with conductor Paul Hillier
Garrison Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gustav Holst: Excerpts from "The Planets"
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Leonard Slatkin
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Carl Nielsen: "Serenata in Vano"
Clarinetist Pascal Archer, bassoonist Jennifer Collins Monroe, French hornist Paul LaFollette, cellist Peter Wiley, and bassist Peter Lloyd
Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bernard-Aymable Dupuy: Excerpts from "In the Middle of the Night"
Les Violins du Roy with conductor Bernard Labadie
Palais Montcalm, Quebec City, Quebec
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