This week’s Classics for Kids showcases the music of Giuseppe
Verdi (or, Americanized, that would be Mr. "Joe Green".) We’ll continue the
exploration in the 8am hour today including highlights from Aida, Otello, Nabucco, and La Traviata.
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Playlist:
8:18 am
- Aida: (Act II) Grand March
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Bologna Comic Opera Theatre Orchestra
- Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
- CD/Album: "Verdi: Ballet Music"
- Record co./Cat #: London 425108
8:28 am
- Nabucco: Va, pensiero
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: Robert Shaw
- CD/Album: "Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80333
- Note: (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
8:38 am
- Otello: Ballet music
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Conductor: James Levine
- CD/Album: "Verdi: Ballet Music - James Levine"
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 52489
8:48 am
- La Traviata: Chorus of the Gypsies & Matadors
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: Georg Solti
- CD/Album: "Verdi: Choruses"
- Record co./Cat #: London 430226
9:02 am
- Berceuse in Db , Op. 57
- Composer: Frederic Chopin
- Soloists: Stephen Hough, piano
- CD/Album: "Chopin: Late Masterpieces"
- Record co./Cat #: Hyperion 67764
9:07 am
- Sonata Ciacona in B
- Composer: Johann Christoph Pezel
- Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Koln
- Conductor: Reinhardt Goebel
- CD/Album: "Chaconnes by Blow, Corelli, Marini, Purcell"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 453418
9:26 am
- Faith in Spring
- Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky
- Ensemble: Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra
- Soloists: Mulheimer Kantorei
- Conductor: James Conlon
- CD/Album: "Zemlinsky: Complete Choral Works, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 86079
9:32 am
- Piano Quintet in f#
- Composer: Reynaldo Hahn
- Ensemble: Chilingirian Quartet
- CD/Album: "Hahn & Vierne Piano Quintets"
- Record co./Cat #: Hyperion 67258