For the past 75 years, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been spending its summer seasons in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, at the Tanglewood Music Festival. This past July, the BSO celebrated with a star-studded gala anniversary concert. PT host Fred Child was there. We'll hear highlights from that very special concert at Tanglewood, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and the Boston Symphony.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Fourth movement from Cello Sonata in D Minor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Emanuel Ax, piano
Peter Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile, Op. 11
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and conductor, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
Joseph Haydn: Two movements from Keyboard Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII:11
Emanuel Ax, piano, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Stefan Asbury, conductor
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Gerry Churchill from Seabrook, Texas
Robert Schumann: Of foreign Lands and Peoples, from Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen), Op. 15
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Copenhagen Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hour 2
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
The Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, conductor
Nicola Piovani: La vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
The Accademia Quartet
Sergei Luchevici National Philharmonic, Chisinau, Moldova
Anonymous (text: Carmina Burana 31): Vite Perdite (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence)
Ars Coralis Coeln, Maria Jonas, director
Frauenkirche, Nuremberg, Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
Carol Wincenc, flute, Wu Han, harpsichord, Kristin Lee and Ian Swensen, violins, Paul Neubauer, viola, Dane Johansen, cello, Scott Pingel, bass
Music@Menlo, Atherton, California
Gyorgy Ligeti: Two Capriccios
Victor Stanislavsky, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op. 11, No. 1
The Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
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