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SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST HOUR 1 From Bach to Bach: Good composers sometimes steal from themselves. Violinists Isabelle Faust, Muriel Cantoreggi (kan-tor-REH-jee) and Christoph Poppen collaborate on the "Allegro" (ah-LEH-groh) movement from J.S. Bach's Concerto for Three Violins. Bach arranged the music from his own Concerto for Three Harpsichords. The soloists are joined by members of the Stuttgart Bach-Collegium. Liszt-O-Mania: Franz Liszt was well known for his flashy, knuckle-busting piano pieces. From this Summer's Newport Music Festival, pianists Frederic Chiu (CHOO), Carlo Grante (GRAHN-tay), Piers Lane and Hamish Milne pair off for just such a piece--Liszt's "Grand Gallop Chromatique" (kroh-mah-TEEK) arranged for eight hands on two pianos. Haydn on the shore: From the seaside music festival called SummerFest La Jolla (lah HOY-yah), just north of San Diego, pianist Wu Han, violinist William Preucil, and cellist David Finckel perform the Piano Trio No. 18 in A-major by Franz Joseph Haydn. The concert was recorded on August 6th. Raff from Roundtop: Music by the forgotten composer Joachim Raff (yoh-AH-keem RAHF) got the spotlight in a June concert at the Roundtop Music Festival in Roundtop Texas. The Dorian Quintet joins five other wind players in a performance of the Sinfonietta (sin-fohn-YEH-tah) for Two Wind Quintets by Joachim Raff. HOUR 2 Vanhal (VAHN-hahl) for Four: Oboist Sarah Francis teams up with three friends from the Tagore (tah-GORE) String Trio for a performance of the second movement from the Oboe Quartet by Johann Baptist (bahp-TEEST) Vanhal. From an August 9th concert at the 2000 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a performance of the Wind Quintet in B-flat, Op. 56, No. 1 by Franz Danzi. The performers are Santa Fe veterans Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Allan Vogel, oboe; Franklin Cohen, clarinet; Lynette Diers Cohen, bassoon, and Julie Landsman, French Horn. More from Santa Fe: The energetic Minuetto from the Sextet in D major, Op. 110, by Mendelssohn, recorded in concert July 30th by this year's crop of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival musicians. Basic Brahms: Critic Ted Libbey drops by to recommend recordings of the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms for the PT Basic Record Library. The Brahms First has a special connection with host Susan Stamberg. From one of Ted's recommended recordings, we'll hear the final movement of the Brahms First Symphony in a performance by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Istvan Kertesz (EESHT-vahn KAIR-tez).

SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST IN WASHINGTON, WITH LISA SIMEONE IN SANTA FE HOUR 1 Dvorak in Santa Fe: We'll hear a performance preserved on C-D by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. From a 1996 concert at St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe, festival musicians perform the opening movement of Dvorak's Wind Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44. Poulenc in Santa Fe: Our Santa Fe correspondent Lisa Simeone joins Susan Stamberg to introduce a festival performance. From a concert on August 6th, we'll hear the Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano by Francis Poulenc (frah(n)-seess poo-LANK). Santa Fe musicians include Allen Vogel, oboe; Lynette Diers (DEERZ) Cohen, bassoon, and Marc Neikrug (NEYE-kroog), piano. Opening Night La Jolla (lah HOY-yah): From the opening concert of the ongoing SummerFest La Jolla, in California, flutist Wincenc (WIN-sents) teams up with violinist Chee Yun, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama (NOH-koo-TOO-lah en-gwen-YAH-mah), and cellist David Finckel for a performance of the Flute Quartet in D major by Mozart. Young Artists in Santa Fe: Santa Fe correspondent Lisa Simeone joins Susan to introduce several of the Santa Fe Distinguished Young Artists who gave a concert together yesterday. We'll hear them perform the finales from the "Dumky" (DOOM-kee) Trio by Antonin Dvorak and the String Quintet, K. 516 by Mozart. They are: violinists Viviane Hagner, Yoon Kwon, and Jessica Linnebach; violists Kirsten Johnson and Jethro Marks; cellist Alisa Weilerstein (WEYE-ler-steyen), and pianist Alon Goldstein (ah-LOHN GOHLD-steyen). HOUR 2 Mozart in Santa Fe: The artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, pianist Marc Neikrug has had a long affiliation with violinist Pinchas Zukerman. From a recording they made together, we'll hear them play the Rondo from Mozart's Violin Sonata in C, K 296. A Trio of cellists in Santa Fe: Live from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Lisa Simeone joins Susan Stamberg to introduce a festival performance of David Popper's Requiem for Three Cellos, featuring Artistic Director Marc Neikrug, piano, with cellists Ralph Kirshbaum, Timothy Eddy and Ronald Thomas. They played it at St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe on August 12th. The artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Marc Neikrug joins Lisa to discuss the piece by Popper we just heard. Haydn in Santa Fe: From a concert they gave on July 24th at St. Francis Auditorium during this summer's Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, violinist Jaime (JAY-mee) Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson and flutist Carol Wincenc play the London Trio No. 1 in C by Franz Joseph Haydn. Pinchas Zukerman in Santa Fe: Lisa Simeone joins Susan Stamberg with two movers and shakers of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival: pianist and Artistic Director Marc Neikrug and violinist Pinchas Zukerman. Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata: From a concert they gave at the end of July, we'll hear Pinchas Zukerman and Marc Neikrug play Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 5.

Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic perform two Brahms favorites: the Hungarian Dances Nos. 6 in D major and No. 14 in D minor.

SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST HOUR 1: Soviet Cinema: Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich earned part of his living composing film scores, and writing popular works for the theater. From a recent CD featuring Constantine Orbelian and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, we'll hear two of the composer's theatrical waltzes: the Waltz from the 1955 film "The Gadfly," and the Waltz from the 1959 operetta "Moscow." Jazzy Stravinsky: In 1945 Igor Stravinsky wrote his Ebony Concerto for Clarinet and Big Band. He designed it specifically for a wildly popular Swing band of the time led by clarinetist Woody Herman. From a concert in Berlin this March, we'll hear a performance of the Ebony Concerto by members of the Berlin Radio Symphony and the RIAS (REE-ahs) Big Band, featuring clarinetist Norbert Nagel (NAH-gel). This year marks the centennial of Weill's birth, and the 50th aniversary of his death. The most common way for instrumentalists to commemorate the Weill anniversaries is to play the suite from "the Threepenny Opera" the composer called his "Little Threepenny Music." Our performance is from the Chamber Music Northwest Festival in Portland, Oregon last month, with conductor was Joseph Silverstein. What Makes Irving Berlin So Great? Pianist, composer, conductor and our "What Makes it So Great" answer-man Rob Kapilow joins Susan to examine a song immortalized by Fred Astaire: "Cheek to Cheek" from the 1935 movie "Top Hat." Fred Astaire sings "Cheek to Cheek" from a 1935 recording with Leo Reisman and his orchestra. HOUR 2: Max Bruch is best known for his G minor Violin Concerto, but he was also a masterful composer of chamber music. We're going to hear clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, violist Jesse Levine and pianist Rex Woods play the first selection from Bruch's Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano. Schumann in the Big Apple: From the International Keyboard Festival 2000 in New York, pianist Anton Kuerti (KAIR-tee) plays two Novelettes from Robert Schumann's opus 21--No. 1 in F-major, and No. 8 in F-sharp minor. The Festival took place last month at Mannes (MAN-ess) College of Music in Manhattan. From an August 5th concert at SummerFest La Jolla (lah HOY-ah), just outside San Diego, we'll hear five top musicians play the String Quintet in B-flat, Op. 87, by Felix Mendelssohn. The violinists are Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil (PROO-sil) and Philip Setzer of the Emerson Quartet; the violists are New York Philharmonic principal Cynthia Phelps and Nokuthula Ngwenyama (noh-koo-TOO-lah en-gwen-YAH-mah), and the cellist is another NYPO principal, Carter Brey (BRAY).

SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST Hour 1 Inventions of Bach: From a brand-new CD, pianist Evegeni Koroliov (ev-GAY-nee koh-ROHL-yawf) plays two of J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions, in C-minor and E-flat major. They're part of a series of keyboard pieces Bach wrote for his son Wilhelm Friedemann (VILL-helm FREE-deh-mahn) to practice. Grainger on the Shore: From MusicFest La Jolla (la HOY-yah), just north of San Diego, we'll hear Percy Grainger's folk song setting called "Molly on the Shore" performed by flutist Carol Wincenc (WIN-sents), violinist William Preucil (PROO-sil), violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama (noh-koo-TOO-lah EN-gwen-YAH-mah), and cellist Carter Brey (BRAY). The ensemble Piffaro (PIF-fah-roh) performs a selection of French Renaissance music. We'll hear "Donna Quando" (DOH-nah KWON-doh), "Ben venga Maggio" (ben VAIN-gah MAH-joh), and "Tentalora" (ten-tah-LOH-rah) by Jakob Arcadelt (YAH-kohb AR-kah-delt), and three anonymous works: "La Rocha el fuso" (lah ROH-chah del FOO-soh), "Il desparato" (eel des-pah-RAH-toh), and "La Lavandara" (lah lah-vahn-DAH-rah). Recorded in concert on July 8th at the Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy. "Lark Ascending": In the novel "An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth (VEE-krahm SAIT), the central character falls head over heels in love with the violin after he hears the sublime "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph (RAIF) Vaughan Williams. We'll hear it performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields, with Neville Marriner conducting. The violin soloist is Iona Brown. "An Equal Music": Susan talks with author Vikram Seth about his book "An Equal Music" (Vintage), which was recently released in paperback. It's a story of lost love and the inner workings of a string quartet. Vikram Seth reads selections from the novel and he'll explain what it was like to write about music from non-musician's point of view. From the companion CD to "An Equal Music," we'll hear music that's featured prominently in the book: the Minuet from Beethoven's rarely-heard String Quintet in C minor, Op. 104. The performers are violinists Maya Iwabuchi and Philipp Honore, violist Rachel Roberts and Clive Howard and cellist Sally Pendlebury. Hour 2 Seasonal Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky's piano cycle called "The Seasons" turns into a piano trio in the hands of the Bekova (beh-KOH-vah) Sisters--pianist Eleonora, violinist Elvira, and cellist Alfia. We'll hear them perform their own arrangement of "August" from a two-CD set released last summer. The Baltimore Symphony tackles a Russian masterpiece: the Symphony No. 6, the "Pathetique," by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Music Director Yuri Temirkanov (YOO-ree tem-meer-KAH-nawf) conducts, from a June concert at Joseph Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. A Termirkanov encore: Yuri Temirkanov is principal guest conductor of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. In March he brought that ensemble to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where they played this encore: "Tango Jalousie" (zhah-loh-ZEE) by 20th-century Danish composer Jacob Gade (YAH-kohb GAH-deh).

In the score to this summer's movie The Perfect Storm, did James Horner borrow ideas from American composer Aaron Copland? Our film music critic Royal Brown thinks so. He'll weigh in on the scores to some of this summer's top films.

Behind this silver lining is a cloud. How many times have you had sunny midsummer excursion spoiled by severe weather? Beethoven felt your pain and memorialized the experience in a symphony. The North German Radio Symphony, led by Herbert Blomstedt, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F, the Pastoral Symphony. (North German Radio)

Busoni (boo-ZOH-nee) Bonanza: From her recital at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, last season, pianist Jeni Slotchiver (SLAH-chiv-er) performs two works by Ferruccio Busoni (fer-OO-choh boo-ZOH-nee). First we'll hear his Sonatina No. 6, a chamber-fantasy on Bizet's Carmen. That's followed by a piece from his Seven Elegies for Piano, the Intermezzo: Turandot's Boudoir (TOOR-an-dot's bood-WAHR). (NGA Audio Services)

Shostakovich out west: From this wear's Music Academy of the West, the Academy Festival Orchestra performs the Symphony No. 6 by Dmitri Shostokovch. The conductor is Graeme Jenkins. Recorded in concert on July 8th at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California. (Opus 1 Mobile Recordings)

From a new CD that Time magazine critic Terry Teachout reviews later this hour, pianist Arcadi Volodos (ahr-KAH-dee VOH-loh-dohss) performs two short piano pieces Sergei Rachmaninoff: the Prelude in F minor, Op. 32, No. 3, and the Etude-Tableaux in C-sharp minor, Op. 33, No. 6. (Sony Classical ASK 64384)