James Conlon and Menahem Pressler explore two approaches to the performance of great music: Plato's inside-out approach and Aristotle's bottom-to-top methods of discovery.

In this philosophical journey through the process of re-creating great art, James Conlon and Menahem Pressler explore two approaches to the performance of great music: Plato's inside-out approach and Aristotle's bottom-to-top methods of discovery from source to product and from product to source. The program provides a look back at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held in Fort Worth, Texas, in the spring of 2005. Musical excerpts and rehearsals feature Alexander Kobrin and the Takács Quartet.