Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Oskar Merikanto
  "Summer Night Waltz," Op. 1
  The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Leif Segerstam
  
• George Gershwin
  "Summertime"
  Pianist Fazil Say
  Fribourg, Switzerland
  
• Leroy Anderson
  Bugler's Holiday
  The Sotto Voce Tuba Quartet
  Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
• Anton Webern
  "Im Sommerwind," Idyll for Large Orchestra
  The NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Ejie Oue
  Grand Studio, Hanover, Germany
  
• Othmar Schoeck
  "Sommernacht," Pastoral Intermezzo for Strings, Op. 58
  The Lucerne Festival Strings with conductor Achim Fiedler
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Arts, Humlebaek, Denmark
  
• Augusta Read Thomas
  "Midsummer Blaze: Alleluia"
  Chanticleer with conductor Joseph Jennings
  St. Philip Neri Church, Portland, Oregon
  
• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  "Poco allegretto," from "Sensommarnatter (Late Summer Nights)"
  Pianist Lang Lang
  Nobel Prize Concert, Stockholm, Sweden
  

hour 2

• Astor Piazzolla
  "Verano Porteno (Summer in Buenos Aires)"
  Guitarist Manuel Barrueco
  
• Antonio Vivaldi
  "Spring" and "Summer" from "The Four Seasons"
  Violinist Joshua Bell and the Indiana University Festival Orchestra
  Summer Music Festival, Bloomington, Indiana
  
• Samuel Barber
  "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," Op. 24
  Soprano Carolyn Sampson and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Nicholas McGegan
  Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
  
• Amy Beach
  Third Movement from the Suite for Two Pianos on Irish Melodies, Op. 104
  Pianists Susan and Sarah Wang (second place winners)
  Dranoff International Two Piano Competition, Miami, Florida
  
• George Gershwin
  "Summertime"
  The New Century Saxophone Quartet
  Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon