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August 18, 2009
Our week at Aspen continues
Our week of highlights from the Aspen Music Festival and School continues with Music Director David Zinman talking about the mysterious art of conducting. (Zinman compares conducting to being a traffic cop and to riding a horse, and adds that you must be the "conscience of the orchestra," and in the end, the conductor must "BE the music.") Zinman talks the talk, and walks the walk - we'll hear him conduct the Aspen Festival Orchestra in Dvorak's rollicking Carnival Overture. And the Takacs Quartet plays Robert Schumann's A-Major Quartet.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Bohuslav Martinu
Sinfonia Concertante for Two Orchestras: IV. Allegretto
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, cond.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture der Freischutz
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
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Pablo de Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen, op. 20
Israel Chamber Orchestra; Gil Shohat, conductor
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde WWV 90: Introduction & Love-Death
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor
Herkulessaal, Munich, Germany
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Geirr Tveitt
Excerpts from 100 folk tunes from Hardanger, Suite No. 2: In the Mountains with Strong Beer; The Grouse on the Folgefonna Glacier; Jews Harp Song; The Mountain Girl on the Hillside
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Ola Kristian Ruud, conductor
Concert Hall, Stavanger, Norway
hour 2
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Adagio (Elegy) for string quartet after Katerina's Aria from Scene 3 " Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district"
Emerson string quartet
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Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture, B. 169, Op. 92
Aspen Festival Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO
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Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit - I. Ondine
Inon Barnatan, piano
Aspen Music Festival: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO
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Robert Schumann
String Quartet in A major, op. 41, no. 3
Takacs Quartet: Edward Dusinberre, violin; Karoly Schranz, violin; Geraldine Walther, viola; Andras Fejer, cello
Aspen Music Festival: Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO
