Manchester Music Festival Artistic Director Philip Setzer is our guide through a vivid, varied dreamscape in sound, slipping from a musical curio by Benjamin Franklin ... yes, that Benjamin Franklin ... to Samuel Barber’s elegiac Adagio for Strings.
Benjamin Franklin String Quartet
Paul Epstein Dream Sonata
Amy Beach Serenade
Carlos Simon Sleep Well
Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag & The Entertainer Rag
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings
Philip Setzer, violin • Paul Epstein, piano • Festival Young Artists