Rhine maidens, water spirits and music "to be sung on water" – this is
the fluid reality of the morning’s music as we hear music inspired by
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Water Music
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Playlist:
8:11 am
- Les Fees du Rhin: Overture
- Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Ensemble: Musicians of the Louvre
- Conductor: Marc Minkowski
- CD/Album: "Offenbach Romantique"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4776403
- Note: (the "Rhine-fairies")
8:20 am
- Auf dem Wasser zu Singen
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Arranger: (piano transcription by Franz Liszt)
- Soloists: Jorge Bolet, piano
- CD/Album: "Liszt: Piano Works Vol. 2"
- Record co./Cat #: London 414575
- Note: (song: "To be sung on the water")
8:30 am
- Rusalka: O Silver Moon
- Composer: Antonin Dvorak
- Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
- Soloists: Renee Fleming, soprano
- Conductor: Georg Solti
- CD/Album: "Renee Fleming By Request"
- Record co./Cat #: London 1024
- Note: (Rusalka's "Hymn to the Moon")
8:40 am
- The Water is Wide
- Composer: Traditional (American)
- Soloists: Mark Small, guitar ; Robert Torres, guitar ; (and various other soloists)
- CD/Album: "The Water Is Wide"
- Record co./Cat #: Channel Classics 3301
8:51 am
- Water Music: Variations 1 & 2
- Composer: Georg Frideric Handel
- Ensemble: English String Orchestra
- Soloists: John Wallace, trumpet
- Conductor: William Boughton
- CD/Album: "Rule Brittania"
- Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5155
9:02 am
- Variations on the name "Abegg" , Op. 1
- Composer: Robert Schumann
- Soloists: Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
- CD/Album: "Schumann: The Works for Solo Piano"
- Record co./Cat #: London 470915
9:13 am
- The Red Pony: Film suite
- Composer: Aaron Copland
- Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
- CD/Album: "Copland: Music for Films"
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 61699
- Note: (written 1948)
9:37 am
- Simple Gifts
- Composer: Traditional (American Shaker hymn)
- Ensemble: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Soloists: Robert Cundick, organ
- Conductor: Jerold Ottley
- CD/Album: "Songs From America's Heartland"
- Record co./Cat #: Argo 430834
- Note: (aka: "Variations on a Shaker Melody")
9:43 am
- Leonore Overture #3 , Op. 72b
- Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony
- Conductor: Colin Davis
- CD/Album: "Beethoven: Overtures - C. Davis"
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 44790