September 24, 2008
The Making of a Champion
The old joke goes, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Answer, "Practice!" And how do you get to win a major guitar competition? Practice even more. It took three tries, but guitarist Marco Sartor finally won the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition this year. We'll hear his winning performance of Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez."
Today's Playlist
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Joaquin Rodrigo
"Que buen caminito" from "Dos Pequenas Fantasias"
Guitarist Scott Tennant
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047
Musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall, New York
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"The Piano Puzzler"
This week's contestant is Paul Mack from Salem, Oregon
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Joaquin Rodrigo
"Concierto de Aranjuez"
Guitarist Marco Sartor with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta
JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, Buffalo, New York
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Capriccio in C, K. 395
Harpsichordist Ton Koopman
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Samuel Barber
Quartet for Strings, Op. 11
The Jupiter String Quartet
American Voices Festival, New York
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat, K. 333
Pianist Lang Lang
The BBC Proms, London, England
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Johann Strauss, Jr.
"A Thousand and One Nights Waltz," Op. 346
The North German Radio Pops Orchestra with conductor Howard Griffiths
Brunswick Classix Festival, Braunschweig, Germany