SummerFest 2015 Schedule: Exclusive Live Broadcasts From Colorado Classical Music Festivals

May 23, 2015

Photo: Aspen Music Festival in tent wide — A performance at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

CPR Classical’s SummerFest live broadcast series is back for 2015, bringing you concerts from classical music festivals across Colorado.

From June 16 through Aug. 23, hear exclusive live music, interviews and concert recordings featuring today's top classical performers at the Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail, Colorado Music Festival, Central City Opera and other festivals around the state.

Related: The Colorado classical music fan’s 2015 guide to summer festivals

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2015 SummerFest live broadcasts:

Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. Colorado College Summer Music Festival	Richard Strauss: Serenade Bela Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Festival Orchestra Scott Yoo, conductor
Thursday, July 2 at 7 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	Bach: Cello Sonata No. 1 in G major Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C major Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Skryabin: Cinq préludes Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano
Wednesday, July 8 at 8:30 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, "The Rider" Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, "Razumovsky" Takacs Quartet
Saturday, July 11 at 8 p.m. Central City Opera	Verdi: La Traviata
Sunday, July 12 at 6 p.m. Bravo! Vail	Bernstein: "Candide" Overture Higdon: Violin Concerto Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World" The Philadelphia Orchestra Robert Spano, conductor Benjamin Beilman, violin
Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 p.m. Colorado Music Festival (pre-recorded)	Debussy: La Mer Ravel: Sheherazade Rossini: Selected arias Respighi: Pines of Rome Colorado Music Festival orchestra Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Daniel Hope, violin Alisa Weilerstein, cello Aspen Music Festival and School students
Sunday, July 26 at 6 p.m. Bravo! Vail	Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra Johann Strauss Jr.: Emperor Waltz Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite New York Philharmonic Bramwell Tovey, conductor Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Thursday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	"Guitar Passions" Sharon Isbin, guitar Stanley Jordan, guitar Romero Lubambo, guitar
Saturday, Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1, "Métamorphoses nocturnes" Shulamit Ran: String Quartet No. 3, "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory" Schubert: String Quintet in C Pacifica Quartet
Sunday, Aug. 23 at 4 p.m. Aspen Music Festival	Mozart: Bella mia fiamma . . . Resta, o cara Ravel: Shéhérazade Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor, “Tragic” Aspen Festival Orchestra Robert Spano, conductor Susanna Phillips, soprano