In a surprising turn, our late-April world turned white today! The morning’s music
is a reflective mix including a request for Beethoven’s "Moonlight"
sonata, and a Rautavaara song that sings of snow-covered flowers.
April Showers Bring…Snow!?
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Playlist:
8:08 am
- Trio for Violin, Lute & basso continuo
- Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
- Ensemble: Bern Camerata
- Conductor: Thomas Fueri
- CD/Album: "Vivaldi: Concertos"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 415487
8:18 am
- Lyric Suite , Op. 54
- Composer: Edvard Grieg
- Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
- CD/Album: "Grieg: Klavierkonzert-Lyrische Suite-Im Herbst"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 437524
- Note: (Selections from the Lyric Pieces, Book 5 - orchestrated by Grieg to create this suite)
8:38 am
- With Joy We Go Dancing
- Composer: Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Ensemble: Conspirare
- CD/Album: "through the green fuse"
- Record co./Cat #: Clarion 915
- Note: (setting of verse by Alexander Slotte)
8:42 am
- Piano Sonata #14 in c#, Op. 27 "Moonlight"
- Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Soloists: Friedrich Gulda, piano
- CD/Album: "Beethoven: Piano Sonatas"
- Record co./Cat #: London 443012
- Note: * listener request * (Recorded 1957)
9:02 am
- Scotch Cap / The Flowers of the Forest / Kilt Thy Coat, Maggie / Canaries / I Will Not Go To Bed Till I Suld Die
- Composer: Anonymous (Scottish)
- Ensemble: The Baltimore Consort
- CD/Album: "On the Banks of Helicon"
- Record co./Cat #: Dorian 90139
9:10 am
- From Ayrshire
- Composer: James MacMillan
- Ensemble: The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
- Soloists: Nicola Benedetti, violin
- Conductor: James MacMillan
- CD/Album: "Nicola Benedetti: Mendelssohn-MacMillan-Mozart"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 7682
- Note: (written in 2005; commissioned by Nicola Benedetti and named after Macmillan's birthplace)
9:18 am
- Concerto in e for Flute, Strings & basso continuo
- Composer: Franz Benda
- Ensemble: CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra
- Soloists: Patrick Gallois, flute
- Conductor: Peter Schreier
- CD/Album: "Flotenkonzerte aus Sanssouci"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 439895
9:40 am
- Simple Symphony , Op. 4
- Composer: Benjamin Britten
- Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Benjamin Britten
- CD/Album: "Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: London 417509
- Note: (Recorded in 1968)