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Program #1
SCHICKELE SYMPHONY

(uplink 12/29/03; recorded 9/22/01)

	Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele joins us in our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program to introduce his new Second Symphony, an homage to Spring, The Sweet Season. It's a piece filled with invention, presented here in its world premiere. The young conductor Stefan Sanderling makes his Chamber Orchestra debut, too, with an Italian overture by Schubert and some deft and delightful movements by Gabriel Fauré, Masques and Bergamasques. And pianist Yefim Bronfman provides an heroic account of the fantasy-filled G-minor Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns, which mixes Bach and Offenbach..

Peter Shickele: Symphony No. 2 (The Sweet Season) (world premiere)
Gabriel Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112
Franz Schubert: Overture in D, D. 590
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in g, Op. 22

—Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano

Program #2
COPLAND'S APPALACHIAN SPRING
(uplink 1/5/04; recorded 9/20/03)

	Daedalus String Quartet

It is a gift to be simple, and on our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program Aaron Copland gives a perfect example in his American ballet, Appalachian Spring, which we present in its original orchestration for thirteen players. Mozart was anything BUT simple with his 38th Symphony, several steps more advanced than anything in that genre he had composed before, but wildly appreciated by audiences in Prague when it was premiered. And we think you'll be quite wild about a jazzy Concerto for String Quartet and Winds by Erwin Schulhoff, a talented Czech composer whose life was cut short by Nazi repression but whose music soars again in the hands of the young Daedalus String Quartet. Andreas Delfs champions them all…Copland, Schulhoff and Mozart…with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in broadcast concert this week.

AARON COPLAND Appalachian Spring Ballet Suite

ERWIN SCHULHOFF Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1930)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504, (Prague)

—Andreas Delfs, conductor; Daedalus String Quartet

View program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #3
MOZART'S CLARINET CONCERTO
(uplink 1/12/04; recorded 9/26-27/03)

	Douglas Boyd

From friendship grew a unique masterpiece…this Clarinet Concerto by Mozart, composed for Anton Stadler and played by our Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra principal Timothy Paradise. Music for strings is featured as well…Elgar's luxuriant Introduction and Allegro, and Michael Tippett's reflections on antiquity…Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli. The Schubert's empassioned Symphony No. 8 reminds us that unfinished business is not always incomplete. Douglas Boyd is guest conductor with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in broadcast concert this week. I'm Michael Barone, inviting you to join us here.

EDWARD ELGAR Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622

MICHAEL TIPPETT Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953)

FRANZ SCHUBERT : Symphony No. 8 in b, D. 759, ( Unfinished )

Program #4
BRUBECK & CORIGLIANO
(uplink 1/19/04; recorded 10/9/03)

	The Brubeck brothers

American music is the focus of our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program. We'll have one of John Adams' seminal scores, "Shaker Loops", an intricate web of interacting themes for an orchestra of strings. Flutist Julia Bogorad-Kogan adds her voice to the string ensemble for John Corigliano's dream-like tone poem, "Voyage", and Chris Brubeck and the Brubeck Brother's Quartet show us how jazz and the modern classics are all part of the same family, particularly in Brubeck's new Vignettes for Wind Quintet and Jazz Quartet. Expect fresh sounds and a lively experience as Reinbert de Leeuw conducts contemporary American scores with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in broadcast concert this week.

JOHN ADAMS Shaker Loops
JOHN CORIGLIANO Voyage
CHRIS BRUBECK Vignettes for Nonet for Woodwind Quintet and Jazz Quartet
BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET Bulwinkle's Revenge, Lydian Grin (Mike Dimicco), Take 5

—Reinbert de Leeuw, guest conductor; The Brubeck Brothers Quartet

Program #5
MOZART'S FIRST SYMPHONY
(uplink 1/26/04; recorded 10/17-18/03)

	Roy Goodman

Strauss was by no means the first to set the Don Quixote story to music. Our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program proves that Georg Philip Telemann had fun with windmills and galloping mules in his programatic suite from 1761. We'll also serve up two symphonies…No. 22 by Haydn, featuring horns both English and French, and Mozart's very first essay in this format. Charles Ullery plays Mozart's one and only Concerto for Bassoon, which captures the instrument's spirit perfectly. Roy Goodman is our guest conductor, a specialist in Period Performance, bringing fresh insights to our Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra broadcast concert this week.

FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Symphony No. 22 in E-flat ("The Philosopher")
W. A. MOZART Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, K. 191
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Don Quichotte Suite
MOZART Symphony No. 1 in E-flat, K. 16

—Roy Goodman, guest conductor; Charles Ullery, bassoon

Program Note

Program #6
HEIDI SCALES THE HEIGHTS
(uplink 2/2/04; recorded 1/20/01)

PAUL HINDEMITH : Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24, no. 1
SAMUEL BARBER : Knoxville: Summer of 1915 , Op. 24
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART : Concert Arias ( Non temer amato bene, K. 490; Bella mia fiamma – Resta, oh cara , K. 528)
FRANS JOSEF HAYDN : Symphony No. 83 in g ( The Hen )

—Hans Graf, conductor; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Steven Copes, violin

Program #7
MOZART'S HORN CONCERTO NO. 4
(uplink 2/9/04; recorded 10/25-26/03)

	Christian Lindberg (Photo: Mats Bäcker)

Trombonist Christian Lindberg had a bright idea and the Fourth Horn Concerto by Mozart proves to be a perfect vehicle for his engaging musicianship. On our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program Lindberg also plays a new concerto of his own creation, a wildly coloful fantasy titled Mandrake in the Corner, and already a possible story line begins in the imagination. Plus, we'll have two symphonies, an early one by Mozart and an exquisitely beautiful piece by an overlooked Viennese master Franz Schreker, a wistful farewell to a passing era. Andreas Delfs conducts.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART:  Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, K. 495
CHRISTIAN LINDBERG :  Mandrake in the Corner
FRANZ SCHREKER : Chamber Symphony (1916)
MOZART : Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201

—Andreas Delfs, conductor; Christian Lindberg, trombone

Program #8
SCHUBERT & MOZART
(uplink 2/16/04; recorded 10/31/03)

	Thomas Zehetmair

A Salzburg Connection is at play on this week's Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program, a link between soloist Thomas Zehetmair and this Mozart Concerto—both products of the same home town. And it's also about youth, as Zehetmair conducts an early Mozart Symphony (Number 10, written when he was 14), a modern Chamber Concerto for 16 Instruments by Englishman Philip Cashian, who numbers Frank Zappa among his youthful influences, and a genuinely romantic Third Symphony by Schubert, product of a charmed 18-year-old genius. Thomas Zehetmair talks with us, too, about his life and art, as we visit the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for this week's broadcast concert.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 10 in G, K. 74
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218
PHILIP CASHIAN Chamber Concerto
FRANZ SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

—Thomas Zehetmair, conductor & violin

Program #9
ADAMS & MCDUFFIE
(uplink 2/23/04; recorded 2/11/01)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY : Petite Suite
ERIC SATIE (arr. Adams): Gymnopédies (Nos. 1 & 3)
MAURICE RAVEL : Le Tombeau de Couperin
JOHN ADAMS : Violin Concerto (1993)

—John Adams, conductor; Robert McDuffie, violin

Program #10
MURRAY PERAHIA'S RETURN
(uplink 3/1/04; recorded 1/17/01)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART : Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN : Symphony No. 88 in G
MOZART : Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503

—Murray Perahia, conductor & piano

Program #11
MOZART'S REQUIEM with the ST. OLAF CHOIR
(uplink 3/8/04; recorded 11/7-8/03)

	Hans Kráza

There are few more poignant works in the entire history of music than the two which Andreas Delfs has brought together for this astonishing program. Although both were created under the most difficult circumstances, the music itself doesn't reflect the turmoil and suffering that surrounded its creation. Before he was sent to his death at Auschwitz, Czech composer Hans Krása put on Brundibár, a parable of the triumph of good over evil, at least 55 times at Terezín (Theresienstadt), the notorious ghetto established in 1941 by the Nazis, and this enchanting children's opera offered a ray of hope to young and old prisoners alike. Mozart was mortally ill when he composed his Requiem, and died before he could complete it, yet it is a work of unique emotional power and musical genius. Maestro Delfs dedicates these performances of the Requiem to Krása, the children of Terezín and all others who perished in the Holocaust.

HANS KRÁSKA : Brundibár (children's opera) (1939)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Requiem in d, K. 626

—Andreas Delfs, conductor; Bel Canto Voices & Minnesota Boychoir; St. Olaf Choir; Alexandra Deshorties, soprano; Jennifer Larmore, alto; James Taylor, tenor; Eric Owens, bass

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Hans Krása's Brundibár, and the Surreal Cultural Life of Theresienstadt
Feature essay and slideshow by Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota

Program #12
A CELEBRATION OF PURCELL
(uplink 3/15/04; recorded 11/20-21/03)

	Gary Bordner and Curtis Streetman

It's an authentic Purcell Trumpet Tune which Gary Bordner performs as part of our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program. We focus on the English Baroque, with Purcell's first Ode to Saint Cecilia and a Masque from "The Fairy Queen", a Symphony by William Boyce, and Jeremiah Clarke's sorrowful Ode upon the Death of Mr. H. Purcell—the best there was in England for some time to come. Solo singers Christine Brandes, Maria Jette, Ryland Angel, Alan Bennett and Curtis Streetman team up with the University of Minnesota Chamber Singers and Concert Choir as Nicholas McGegan and members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for music of delightful celebration during this week's broadcast.

HENRY PURCELL: Ode for St. Cecilia (Welcome to All the Pleasures)
WILLIAM BOYCE: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat
PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in d
PURCELL: The Faerie Queen, from Masque from Act 5
JEREMIAH CLARKE: Ode on the Death of Purcell (Come, come along)

—Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Christine Brandes, soprano; Maria Jette, soprano;Ryland Angel, alto;Alan Bennett, tenor; Curtis Streetman, bass; University of Minnesota Concert Choir and Chamber Singers; Gary Bordner, trumpet

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #13
ARIA READY FOR THIS
(uplink 3/22/04; recorded 3/24/01)

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL : Entrance of the Queen of Sheba , fr Solomon
HANDEL : 2 Arias ( Cara sposa and Or la tromba ), fr Rinaldo
HANDEL : Oreste Ballet Music
CHRISTOPH WILIBALD GLUCK : Dance of the Blessed Spirits and 2 Arias ( J'ai perdu mon Euridice and Amour, viens rendre a mon ame ), fr Orfeo ed Euridice
GLUCK : Don Juan Suite

—Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Ewa Podles, contralto

Program #14
MENDELSSOHN'S ITALIAN SYMPHONY
(uplink 3/29/04; recorded 11/28-29/03)

	Emmanuel Krivine

It's music for the imagination. Provide your own in this Concerto for Strings by Stravinsky and dance along at home, if you wish. Pianist Steward Goodyear provides his own cadenzas for Mozart's Concerto No. 21, in a gesture of which Mozart certainly would have approved. Luigi Dallapiccola provides a distinctly modern, and distinctly Italian review of a notion of A Little Night Music. His Piccola Musica Notturna is miniature marvel in tone, in contrast to the effervescent Felix Mendelssohn, who sends home postcards from an Italian sojourn Rome and Naples. Emmanuel Krivine conducts Mendelssohn's sun-drenched Italian Symphony as the final stop on our international musical itinerary served up in characterful manner by friends in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert.

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Concerto in D for Strings (1946)
WOLFGANG MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA: Piccola musica notturna (1954)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 (Italian)

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #15

Concertmaster's Collection
(uplink 4/5/04; recorded 12/5-6/03)

	Mary Nessinger
	Steven Copes

Life, love, lust and loss, we have it all on our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program, which includes a zesty Wind Serenade by Richard Strauss, the care-free work of a teenaged talent. Poems of Friedrich Rückert set by by Gustav Mahler explore nuances of human emotion. Mary Nessinger sings songs, some intended as wedding gifts. She also portrays the deranged heroine in Benjamin Britten's cantata "Phaedra", overcome by desire. From Vienna, microcosmic movements for string quartet by Webern contrast with the exhuberant Haffner Serenade by Mozart, party music of a most stylish sort. It's a Concertmaster's Collection, with Stephen Copes at the helm of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in broadcast concert this week.

RICHARD STRAUSS: Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7
ANTON WEBERN: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5
GUSTAV MAHLER: (arr. West) Rückert Songs
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Phaedra, Op. 93 (1975)
WOLFGANG MOZART: Serenade No. 7 in D, K.250 (Haffner) (mvmts. 1-4)

Steven Copes, director and violin
Mary Nessinger, meszzo-soprano

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #16
NICK'S PICKS
(uplink 4/12/04; recorded 3/10/01)

J.S. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D, S. 1069
ANTONIO VIVALDI Cello Concerto in a, R. 419
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, no. 2
VIVALDI Cello Concerto in D, R. 230
JEAN PHILLIPPE RAMEAU Dardanus Suite

—Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Mark Kosower, cello

Program #17
BEETHOVEN'S EMPEROR CONCERTO
(uplink 4/19/04; recorded 1/18/04)

	Garrick Ohlsson (photo: Philip Jones Griffiths)

An Austrian theme weaves through our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program. Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, scored for a rather small ensemble, nonetheless packs plenty of big ideas into a very compact space. By contrast, a Divertimento by Mozart seems all whipped cream. But it is party music, after all, and a youthful venture. Beethoven achieves perfect poise in his Fifth Piano Concerto, and Garrick Ohlsson gives a performance worthy of an Emperor. Andreas Delfs conducts the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in this week's concert broadcast.

WOLFGANG MOZART Divertimento in F for Strings, K. 138
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1906)
LUDWING van BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 (Emperor)

Andreas Delfs, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #18
KEYBOARD FOR TWO
(uplink 4/26/04; recorded 1/23-24/04)

Was it diplomacy, or forward thinking? On our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program, Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach sets up the passing of an era in a concerto where the Baroque harpsichord and classical fortepiano share the spotlight. Karl Dittersdorf depicts Andromeda's Rescue by Perseus, a classical Greek legend captured in a classical symphony. And a youthful Mozart cedes the laurel to the mature Haydn, whose symphony for Paris was specially adapted to the French taste. It's a little slice of life from the end of the 18th century when Nicholas McGegan conducts the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with harpsichordist Skip James, in broadcast concert this week.

WOLFGANG MOZART: Symphony No. 28 in C, K. 200
C.P.E BACH: Double Concerto in E-flat for Fortepiano and Harpsicord, Wq. 47
KARL DITTERS von DITTORSDORF: Symphony in F (Perseus and Andromeda)
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN: Symphony No. 86 in D

—Nicholas McGegan, conductor, Layton James, harpsicord

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #19
SCHICKELE MIX AND MATCH
(uplink 5/3/04; recorded 5/5/01)

	Peter Schickele

We're not really going to the dogs, but this week's program does include a charming piece inspired by sketches of dogs. American humorist James Thurber depicts everything from hunting hounds to a litter of perfectly healthy puppies raised on fried pancakes. Who else but Peter Schickele could successfully manage a musical evocation of such a scene? Along with Thurber's Dogs, we'll have a youthful wind serenade by Richard Strauss in homage to Mozart, a chamber symphony by Shostakovich reflecting on the trauma of World War II, and Chopin's glittering F minor concerto with which he made his much-applauded public debut.

PETER SCHICKELE Thurber's Dogs (1994)

FREDERIC CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in f, Op. 21

RICHARD STRAUSS Serenade in E-flat for 13 Winds, Op. 7

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (arr. Barshai): Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

—Peter Oundjian, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Listen to an interview with Peter Schickele (50:46s)
by Tom Voegeli, for the American Mavericks project, Minnesota Public Radio

Program #20
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
(uplink 5/10/04; recorded 2/6-7/04)

	Lisa Saffer

How do you relate to time when listening to music? Do you count the pulse, or nervously check your watch? Do you make time to hear new things, question your place in the scheme of time, or thank the heavens for the time you have? In our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra broadcast concert, a provocative progression of works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, Charles Ives and Lukas Foss offer timely examples of a timeless art with Robert Spano conducting. Time marches on, but I hope you'll take the time to tune in.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Adagio and Fugue in c, K. 546
LUKAS FOSS: Time Cycle (1960)
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN: Molto Adagio, fr String Quartet No. 15 in a, Op. 132
CHARLES IVES: The Unanswered Question
J.S. BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, S. 1068

—Robert Spano, conductor; Lisa Saffer, soprano

Program notes from the SPCO Web site

Program #21
ANDRE WATTS PLAYS MOZART
(uplink 5/17/04; recorded 2/14/04)

	André Watts

There's a ruminative elegance to Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto, which André Watts conveys so well on our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program. Though its middle movement seems serene, there's a brooding intensity to the piece overall. Even Mozart seems to have struggled here, since there is no final version of the score and no cadenza, so Mr. Watts provides his own. Intense in other ways is the new Sinfonia by Roberto Sierra, which we premiere, and the rarely played Second Symphony by Kurt Weill, written "between worlds", beyond Berlin but before Broadway. Andreas Delfs conducts with special insight as we present our Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in this week's broadcast concert.

ROBERT SIERRA: Sinfonia No. 1 (world premiere)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in c, K. 491
KURT WEILL: Symphony No. 2 (1933)

Andreas Delfs, conductor
André Watts, piano

Program #22
GREAT TASTE
(uplink 5/24/04; recorded 5/19/01)

	Martin Haselböck

He wasn't just a chip off the old Bach. When Carl Philip Emmanuel wrote for the organ, he did it in a style very different from that of his famous father. Conductor Martin Haselbock delights in the frothy fantasy… and poignant emotion… of C.P.E. Bach's Concerto in G, created for King Frederick the Great's sister who must have been a pretty good player. Otherwise, it's music from the Viennese tradition into which Haselbock was born… a suite depicting soldiers in battle, plus two symphonies by Haydn, No. 85 for Paris, and a favorite of Marie Antoinette's, and No. 8 for Haydn's first season at the Esterhazy court where he made friends in the orchestra by giving everyone interesting solos.

FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Symphony No. 8 in G, Evening
CARL PHILIP EMMANUEL BACH Organ Concerto in G
HEINRICH IGNAZ von BIBER Battaglia
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Symphony No. 85 in B-flat, The Queen of France

—Martin Haselböck, conductor & organ

Program #23
SARAH CHANG PLAYS DVORAK
(uplink 5/31/04; recorded 4/23-24/04)

	Sarah chang

Prodigeous talent converges on our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program. Mendelssohn was all of sixteen when he wrote his miraculous Octet, dream music for any string player, which is why guest conductor Joseph Silverstein plays the first fiddle part in our ensemble--a hands-on approach. He conducts Mozart's 33rd Symphony, and provides the sort of insightful accompaniment that only another violinist can provide as Sarah Chang lights a fire under the dramatic and energetic A-minor Concerto by Dvořák, a romantic masterwork.

WOLFGANG MOZART Symphony No. 33 in B-flat, K. 319
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat for Strings, Op. 20
ANTON DVORAK Violin Concerto in a, Op. 53

Joseph Silverstein, conductor
Sarah Chang, violin

Interview with violinists Sarah Chang and Joseph Silverstein

Program #24
SWENSEN CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN
(uplink 6/07/04; recorded 4/30/04)

JEAN SIBELIUS Rakastava
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Symphony No. 103 in E-flat ( Drumroll )

—Joseph Swensen, conductor; Stephen Kovacevich, piano

Program #25
MOZART'S ABDUCTION
(uplink 6/14/04; recorded 9/29/01)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Abduction from the Seraglio , K. 384

—Andreas Delfs, conductor; Esther Heideman, soprano; Laura Aikin, soprano; Stanford Olsen, Theodore Green, tenor, Alan Ewing, bass; John de Lancie, narrator; Minnesota Chorale

Program #26
BACH'S CELLO SUITE & BRANDENBURG 4
(uplink 6/21/04; recorded 5/21-22/04)

WOLFGANG MOZART Serenade No. 3 in D, K. 185
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Cello Concerto in D
J.S. BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C, S. 1009
J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, S. 1049

—Steven Copes, director & violin; Pieter Wispelwey, director & cello; Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute; Alicia McQuerrey, flute

Program #27
SCHICKELE SYMPHONY
(uplink 6/28/04; recorded 9/22/01)

	Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele joins us in our next Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra program to introduce his new Second Symphony, an homage to Spring, The Sweet Season. It's a piece filled with invention, presented here in its world premiere. The young conductor Stefan Sanderling makes his Chamber Orchestra debut, too, with an Italian overture by Schubert and some deft and delightful movements by Gabriel Fauré, Masques and Bergamasques. And pianist Yefim Bronfman provides an heroic account of the fantasy-filled G-minor Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns, which mixes Bach and Offenbach..

Peter Shickele: Symphony No. 2 (The Sweet Season) (world premiere)
Gabriel Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112
Franz Schubert: Overture in D, D. 590
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in g, Op. 22

--Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano