At 1:00 PM, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera brings you Gluck's Alceste in a new reissue of a 1981 recording featuring Sir Charles Mackerras leading a cast featuring Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, and Matthew Best with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus. From the Royal Opera House Heritage Series.
Tonight begins the annual summer series of broadcasts from the Music Mountain Summer Music Festival, bringing you chamber music recorded at this summer's festival in Falls Village, Connecticut, until September 27. Tune in at 9:00 to hear The Penderecki String Quartet performing Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, "Emperor"; and Janacek's String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer"; and, joined by cellist Mihai Tetel, Beethoven's Cello Quintet in A Major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer."
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Don't Miss These Highlights:
Music with Bill Jerome: Dvorak's Slavonic Rhapsody, Op. 45, No. 2, performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur; and a performance of Mozart's Rondo for Piano in D Major, K. 485, by Vladimir Horowitz, in the 10:00 AM hour
Music with Clayelle Dalferes: Saint-Saens's Concerto for Piano No. 4 performed by Stephen Hough and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo; and David Diamond's Rounds for String Orchestra performed by the Seattle Symphony led by Gerard Schwarz in the noon hour
Music with Candice Agree: Haydn's Symphony No. 8, "Le Soir," performed by the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Antal Dorati in the 6:00 PM hour
From the Top features performances by soloists or ensembles ages 9-18 taped before a live audience in halls and centers across the country, at 7:00 PM. Tonight's program, recorded at Chandler Music Hall in the Green Mountains of Vermont, features French horn player Katie Jordan (17, Charlotte, VT) performing Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, first movement; violinist Dorothea Talento (18, Woodstock, VT) playing Frizt Kreisler's Tempo di Minuetto; clarinetist Christopher Pell (16, Bronx, NY) playing a movement from Weber's Grand Duo Concertante; the Cerberus Trio (14-17, Chicago area) playing the Finale from Smetana's Piano Trio in G minor; and pianist Alvin Zhu (16, Pittsburgh, PA) a From the Top Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist, playing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor.
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