Composer Bruce Adolphe (pictured) joins PT host Fred Child with this week's Piano Puzzler. Bruce re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along as a PT listener tries to name the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking, and the hidden tune. Plus, a full hour of music inspired by castles, and recent concerts that took place inside castles. A castle-inspired symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, the Tokyo Quartet and Leif Ove Andsnes in concert at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, and Vivaldi's "Summer" in concert at the Castello di Amorosa (the "Castle of Love") in Napa Valley, California.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: June: Barcarolle from The Seasons, Op. 37b
Van Cliburn, piano
Franz Schubert: Excerpts from Incidental Music to Rosamunde
Taavi Oramo, clarinet, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, conductor
Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Reuben Manring from Columbia, Missouri
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a
Eduard Kunz, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
Samuel Barber: Second movement from Sonata for Piano, Op. 26
Yeol Eum Son, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Osculetur me
Stile Antico
The BBC Proms, London England
Traditional: Maqam Al-Khanabat
Khyam Allami, oud, Andrea Piccioni, percussion
The BBC Proms, London England
Claudio Monteverdi: Excerpts from Act II of Orfeo
I Fagiolini, Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
The BBC Proms, London England
Hour 2
Susumu Miyashita: Sunlight Shining Through the Trees
James Galway, flute, Tokyo String Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki, conductor
Rentaro Taki: The Moon on the Ruined Castle
James Galway, flute, Tokyo String Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki, conductor
Arnold Bax: Tintagel
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5, Hob. III:79
The Tokyo String Quartet
Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in B, Op. 62, No. 1
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Antonio Vivaldi: Third movement from Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 (Summer from the Four Seasons)
Chad Hoopes, violin, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Alondra de la Parra, conductor
Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, California
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