Les Nuits d’été

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Ahh, summer nights: starry skies and warm, flower-perfumed breezes
wafting in through open windows. This morning’s music features highlights from Hector
Berlioz’s evocative song cycle "Les Nuits d’été" – "Summer nights" with
the incomparable soprano Régine Crespin. Manuel de Falla’s "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" completes the picture in our 9am hour together.

Playlist:
8:08 am
  • Danse
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Ensemble: The Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
  • CD/Album: "Debussy: La Mer, Prelude, Nocturnes"
  • Record co./Cat #: Sony 53256
8:14 am
  • Jeux d'eau
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Soloists: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • CD/Album: "Ravel: Complete works for solo piano"
  • Record co./Cat #: London 433515
  • Note: ("water games")
8:20 am
  • Orchestral Suite #4 in G, Op. 61 "Mozartiana"
  • Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Ensemble: Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • CD/Album: "Tchaikovsky: Suites 3 & 4 ' Mozartiana' "
  • Record co./Cat #: Capriccio 10200
  • Note: (including themes from "Don Giovanni" and the motet "Ave Verum Corpus")
8:46 am
  • Trio Sonata #5 in C , BWV 529
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Heinz Holliger, oboe ; Tabea Zimmermann, viola ; Christiane Jaccottet, harpsichord ; Thomas Demenga, cello
  • CD/Album: "Bach - The Trio Sonatas"
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 422328
  • Note: (arr. from Organ Sonata #5)
9:02 am
  • The Secret: Overture
  • Composer: Bedrich Smetana
  • Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
  • CD/Album: "Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2"
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 10518
9:10 am
  • Les Nuits d'ete: Villanelle; Le Spectre de la rose; L'Ile inconunue
  • Composer: Hector Berlioz
  • Ensemble: L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
  • Soloists: Regine Crespin, soprano
  • Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
  • CD/Album: "Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete, Ravel: Sheherazade, etc"
  • Record co./Cat #: London 4757712
  • Note: ("Summer Nights: Villanelle; The spectre of the rose; The unknown island")
9:24 am
  • Nights in the Gardens of Spain
  • Composer: Manuel de Falla
  • Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Alicia de Larrocha, piano
  • Conductor: Rafael Fruhbeck-de Burgos
  • CD/Album: "Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain"
  • Record co./Cat #: London 410289
9:50 am
  • Jacaras & Tarantelas
  • Composer: Santiago de Murcia
  • Soloists: Paul O'Dette, lute ; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp ; Pedro Estevan, percussion
  • CD/Album: "Jacaras! 18th Century Guitar Music of Santiago de Murcia"
  • Record co./Cat #: Harmonia Mundi 907212

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