We'll have music and conversation with some of the freshly crowned classical Grammy winners, including composers Joan Tower and Peter Lieberson, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, violinist James Ehnes, and members of Eighth Blackbird and the Turtle Island Quartet. And we'll go to Amsterdam to hear Neeme Jarvi lead the Hague Philharmonic in Sibelius' Fifth Symphony.
Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring" Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Aria from the prologue of "The Snow Maiden" Soprano Anna Netrebko with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and conductor Valery Gergiev
Traditional, Chinese: "Fengyang Ge" Chanticleer
Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 2 Pianist Kyoko Tabe
Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring" Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Running Set" The Bournemouth Sinfonietta with conductor George Hurst
Jean Francaix: Fourth movement from Symphony in G Major The Ulster Orchestra with conductor Thierry Fischer
Manuel de Falla: "Ritual Fire Dance" from "El Amor Brujo" The Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Eugene Ormandy
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