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Weekend of January 16, 2010

The Piano Puzzler

This weekend on PT, it's our Piano Puzzler. Composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a great classical composer. We get a listener on the phone who tries to guess the hidden tune, and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. See if you can guess what Bruce is up to, on this weekend's Piano Puzzler.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Fourth movement from Sonata No. 2, Op. 14
    Pianist Barry Douglas
  • Giovanni Gabrieli
    Sonata XXI for Three Violins
    Violinists Ingrid Matthews, Tekla Cunningham, and Carrie Krause with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra
    Town Hall, Seattle
  • "The Piano Puzzler"
    This week's contestant is Steve Hoog from New Orleans
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491
    Pianist and conductor Barry Douglas with Camerata Ireland
    National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

hour 2

  • Edmund Rubbra
    Third movement from Viola Concerto in A, Op. 75
    Violist Lawrence Power with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov
  • Perotinus
    "Ex Semine"
    The Mediae Vox Ensemble with conductor Filipa Taipina
    Cathedral, Castelo Branco,
  • Karl Leopold Rollig
    Kleine Tonstucke for Glass Harmonica
    Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica
    Limestone Caves, Montserrat, Spain
  • Johann Albrechtsberger
    Finale from Concerto for Jew's Harp, Mandora, and Orchestra
    Fritz Mayr, Jew's harp, and Dieter Kirsch, mandora, with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Hans Stadlmeir
  • Tibor Serly
    Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra
    Violist Lawrence Power with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Marcus Stenz
    The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Antonin Dvorak
    Serenade for Winds in D Minor, Op. 44
    The Chicago Chamber Musicians
    Gottlieb Hall, Chicago
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