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August 28, 2008

Beaux Arts' American Swan Song

We'll conclude two days of music from last Thursday's final American concert by the Beaux Arts Trio. The legendary piano trio performed an all-Schubert program at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts. On today's show, they'll play Schubert's Piano Trio No. 1.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Johannes Brahms
    Third movement from Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101
    The Beaux Arts Trio
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
    The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Charles Dutoit
    Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Overture to "Don Giovanni"
    The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Alan Gilbert
    Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
  • Franz Schubert
    Piano Trio No. 1, D. 898
    The Beaux Arts Trio
    Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts

hour 2

  • Hugo Wolf
    "The Harper's Song"
    Baritone Matthias Goerne with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Selections from "Call of the Birds"
    Calefax
    The Frick Collection, New York City
  • Pierre Passereau
    "Il est bel et bon"
    The King's Singers
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • Frank Bridge
    "The Goslings"
    The King's Singers
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • Traditional
    "The Turtle Dove"
    The King's Singers
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    "Leonore" Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
    The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with conductor Leonard Slatkin
    The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Leonard Bernstein
    Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
    Clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
    New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York City
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