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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



hour 1

  • Joaquin Rodrigo
    "Que buen caminito" from "Dos Pequenas Fantasias"
    Guitarist Scott Tennant
  • 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
  • "The Piano Puzzler"
    This week's contestant is Paul Mack from Salem, Oregon
  • 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

hour 2

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Capriccio in C, K. 395
    Harpsichordist Ton Koopman
  • Samuel Barber
    Quartet for Strings, Op. 11
    The Jupiter String Quartet
    American Voices Festival, New York
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat, K. 333
    Pianist Lang Lang
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • 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
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