Edward Elgar says it best in his choral partsong, There is Sweet Music.
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There Is Sweet Music
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Playlist:
8:11 am
- Danzon Cubano
- Composer: Aaron Copland
- Ensemble: New World Orchestra
- Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
- CD/Album: "Tanzago - Music of Latin America"
- Record co./Cat #: Argo 436737
8:22 am
- The Bells of St. Genevieve
- Composer: Marin Marais
- Ensemble: Les Concerts du Monde
- Conductor: Keith Clark
- CD/Album: "Movies Go Baroque"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80336
- Note: (aka: "Les Sonneries du St. Genevieve")
8:31 am
- There is Sweet Music
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Ensemble: Choir of Worcester Cathedral
- Conductor: Donald Hunt
- CD/Album: "Elgar: Complete Choral Works"
- Record co./Cat #: Hyperion 66271
- Note: (setting of the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
8:41 am
- L'isle Joyeuse
- Composer: Claude Debussy
- Soloists: Van Cliburn, piano
- CD/Album: "My Favorite Encores"
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 60726
- Note: ("The Joyous Isle")
8:52 am
- Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 11: Allamarcia
- Composer: Dag Wiren
- Ensemble: CBC Vancouver Orchestra
- Conductor: Mario Bernardi
- CD/Album: "Northern Landscapes"
- Record co./Cat #: CBC (RCI) 5157
9:02 am
- Symphony #30 in C, HOB 1/30 "Alleluja"
- Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: Cantilena
- Conductor: Adrian Shepherd
- CD/Album: "Haydn Symphonies 22, 24, 30"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8505
9:17 am
- Canzon IX (1615)
- Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ensemble: LSO Brass
- CD/Album: "Gabrieli: Music for Brass vol. 1"
- Record co./Cat #: Naxos 8.553609
9:20 am
- Canzon Septimi a Octavi Toni a 12
- Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ensemble: LSO Brass
- CD/Album: "Gabrieli: Music for Brass vol. 1"
- Record co./Cat #: Naxos 8.553609
9:22 am
- Canzon XVII (1615)
- Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ensemble: LSO Brass
- CD/Album: "Gabrieli: Music for Brass vol. 1"
- Record co./Cat #: Naxos 8.553609
9:28 am
- An die Sonne , D 439
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Soloists: Kammerchor Stuttgart ; Andreas Rothkopf, piano
- Conductor: Frieder Bernius
- CD/Album: "Franz Schubert: Chorwerke"
- Record co./Cat #: Profil 6020
- Note: (text by Johann Peter Uz: "To the sun")
9:37 am
- Cendrillon: Suite
- Composer: Jules Massenet
- Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
- Conductor: Neville Marriner
- CD/Album: "Jules Massenet: Ballettsuiten"
- Record co./Cat #: Capriccio 10569