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Eroica Cafe: The Eroica Trio--pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Adela Pena, and cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio--were the opening act at this summer's String In the Mountains festival on July 1st in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. From their concert, we'll hear a pieces that mixes blues and ragtime with African-American spirituals and Broadway-style tunes. It's Cafe Music for piano trio by composer Paul Schoenfield (SHOH-en-feeld). We'll also hear their encore: the Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras (bahk-YAH-nahsh brah-zee-LAY-rahsh) by Heitor Villa-Lobos (HAY-tor VEE-lah LOH-bohss). (Paul Eachus/Tape One Recordings)

Corelli at 8000 feet: From high in the Rockies at this year's Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the International Sejong (SAY-jong) Soloists perform the Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4, by Arcangelo Corelli (ahr-KAHN-jel-loh koh-REL-lee). Recorded in concert on July 5th. (Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute)

The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado is now in the midst of its 13th summer season. From a concert on July 11th, festival director and flutist Eugenia Zukerman (ZOO-ker-mahn) joins violist Roberto Diaz (roh-BAIR-toh DEE-ahz) and cellist Andres (ahn-DRAYSS) Diaz in a performance of the Trio No. 3 in D minor by French composer Francois Devienne (frah(n)-swah dev-YEN). (Dave Wilson Recordings)

The Fourth of July Down Under brings the rolling of drums, the ringing of bells, the blare of brass and . . . yodeling? Mary Schneider (SHNY-dehr), Australia's Queen of Yodeling performs a medley of marches, including Sousa's Semper Fidelis and Liberty Bell as you've never heard them before. Tommy Tycho conducts the Sydney International Orchestra and Khan Dawson Singers. (Koch International Classics 3-6650-2)

Music by American composer Arnold Black, who died last Sunday at the age of 77: The St. Petersburg String Quartet performs the second movement of Black's Quartet for Strings,My Country 1998-1999. He composed the piece for the 30th anniversary of the festival he founded, the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Mass., and it was premiered there last July. (Harrison Digital Audio Services) (

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