As we move towards the New Year, the Festival Prelude of Strauss, Schumann’s Carnival Prank, and lots of other festive music.
Festivals in the Air
|
Playlist:
7:01 am
- Fantasia on "La ci darem la mano" (from Mozart's Don Giovanni)
- Composer: Franz Danzi
- Ensemble: Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
- Soloists: Sabine Meyer, clarinet
- Conductor: Jorg Faerber
- CD/Album: Danzi: Flute and Clarinet Concertos
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 61976
7:12 am
- Cantata #42: Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats: Sinfonia , BWV 42 ("The evening, though, of the very same Sabbath...")
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina
- Conductor: Ottavio Dantone
- CD/Album: Bach Sinfonia
- Record co./Cat #: London Decca 4782718
7:20 am
- Le Rouet d'Omphale ("Omphale's Spinning Wheel")
- Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
- Ensemble: Orchestre National de O.R.T.F.
- Conductor: Jean Martinon
- CD/Album: Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 'Organ' / Poulenc Organ Concerto
- Record co./Cat #: Erato 89244
- Note: (orchestral version)
7:28 am
- Vocalise , Op. 34/14
- Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Soloists: Anne Akiko Meyers, violin ; Sandra Rivers, piano
- CD/Album: Salut d’Amour
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 62546
7:36 am
- Divertimento a Tre
- Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
- Soloists: Christopher Warren-Green, violin ; Michael Thompson, horn ; Andrew Shulman, cello
- Conductor: Christopher Warren-Green
- CD/Album: Haydn Trumpet and Horn Concertos
- Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5010
7:44 am
- Introduzione and Rondo Brillant in A , Op. 56
- Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Ensemble: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
- Soloists: Joshua Pierce, piano
- Conductor: Bystrik Rezucha
- CD/Album: Joshua Pierce: Rondo Brillante
- Record co./Cat #: MSR 1196
- Note: (Early Romantic works for Piano and Orchestra)
8:06 am
- Flute Concerto #7 , Op. 5
- Composer: Arcangelo Corelli
- Ensemble: The English Concert
- Soloists: Maurice Steger, recorder
- Conductor: Lawrence Cummings
- CD/Album: Mr. Corelli in London
- Record co./Cat #: Harmonia Mundi 907523
8:17 am
- Dolly Suite (orchestral version) , Op. 56
- Composer: Gabriel Faure
- Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
- CD/Album: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande - Dolly
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 423089
8:36 am
- Faschingsschwank aus Wien: First movement , Op. 26 ("Carnival Prank from Vienna")
- Composer: Robert Schumann
- Soloists: Murray Perahia, piano
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 46337
- Note: includes "La Marseillaise" reference
8:46 am
- Festival Prelude
- Composer: Richard Strauss
- Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
- Soloists: Wolfgang Meyer, organ
- Conductor: Karl Bohm
- CD/Album: Richard Strauss: Orchesterwerke
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 423488