Al’ Italia

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We’re off to Italy for the morning’s music, including an "Italian" Overture by Franz Schubert, Rossini’s song I Gondolleri (The Gondoliers), and a typically ornamented Chiacona by Verona native Antonio Bertali.

Playlist:
8:08 am
  • Im Fruhling Overture , Op. 36
  • Composer: Karl Goldmark
  • Ensemble: Polish National Radio Orchestra
  • Conductor: Michael Bartos
  • CD/Album: "Goldmark: Rustic Wedding"
  • Record co./Cat #: Newport 85503
  • Note: ("In Spring")
8:18 am
  • I Gondolleri
  • Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
  • Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Choir
  • Soloists: Kerstin Hindart, piano
  • Conductor: Eric Ericson
  • CD/Album: "500 Years of European Choral Music"
  • Record co./Cat #: Clarion 901
  • Note: (song: "The Gondolier")
8:24 am
  • Chiacona
  • Composer: Antonio Bertali
  • Ensemble: Rare Fruits Council
  • Conductor: Manfredo Kraemer
  • CD/Album: "Rariora & Marginalia"
  • Record co./Cat #: Naive 8840
8:33 am
  • Quintet in Eb for Piano & Winds , K 452
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Soloists: Mitsuko Uchida, piano ; Neil Black, oboe ; Thea King, clarinet ; Frank Lloyd, horn ; Robin O'Neill, bassoon
  • CD/Album: "Mozart: Piano Concerto KV 453 - Piano Quintet KV 452"
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 422592
9:02 am
  • Overture in C, "In the Italian Style" , D 591
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Ensemble: Hanover Band
  • Conductor: Roy Goodman
  • CD/Album: "Schubert: Symphonies No. 3 in D & No. 5 in B flat"
  • Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5172
9:10 am
  • Orchestral Suite #3 in D , BWV 1068
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ensemble: Ensemble Sonnerie
  • Conductor: Monica Huggett
  • CD/Album: "Bach: Four Orchestral Suites"
  • Record co./Cat #: Avie 2171
9:29 am
  • Duo Baroque (for double bass & harp)
  • Composer: Jean Francaix
  • Soloists: Jeremy McCoy, double bass ; June Han, harp
  • CD/Album: "Dialogues With Double Bass"
  • Record co./Cat #: Bridge 9163
  • Note: (written in 1980)
9:52 am
  • Roumanian Folk Dances , SZ 56
  • Composer: Bela Bartok
  • Ensemble: Hungarian State Orchestra
  • Conductor: Adam Fischer
  • CD/Album: "Bartok: Dance Suite"
  • Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5309

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