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Tonight in Montpelier, Counterpoint will perform music of Michael Isaacson, led by Director Emeritus Robert DeCormier, a former teacher of Isaacson.  Since Isaacson was DeCormier’s teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music he has had a successful career composing for film and television and has become one of America’s leading composers of Jewish sacred music.  At 11 today we’ll hear a few comments from Isaacson and his composition, Through These Windows, inspired by the Marc Chagall windows of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. 

Listen to Michael Isaacson’s conversation with VPR’s Neal Charnoff.

Playlist:
9:01 am
  • Andante with Variations
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Soloists: Alfred Brendel, piano
  • CD/Album: Haydn: 11 Piano Sonatas
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 416643
9:18 am
  • Gwendoline: Overture
  • Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier
  • Ensemble: Toulouse Capitol Orchestra
  • Conductor: Michel Plasson
  • CD/Album: Chabrier: Oeuvres pour Orchestre
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 74336
9:31 am
  • Clarinet Concerto in A , K 622
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Sabine Meyer, clarinet
  • Conductor: Claudio Abbado
  • CD/Album: Mozart: Concertos
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 57128
10:01 am
  • Suite Bergamasque
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Soloists: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • CD/Album: Debussy: Images, Etudes, etc.
  • Record co./Cat #: London 460247
10:20 am
  • String Sextet #1 in Bb , Op. 18
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
  • CD/Album: Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9151
11:01 am
  • Michael Isaacson comments
11:04 am
  • Through These Windows
  • Composer: Michael Isaacson
  • Ensemble: University of Miami Master Chorale
  • Soloists: Cantor Faith Steinsnyder
  • CD/Album: Michael Isaacson
  • Record co./Cat #: Michael Isaacson 2012
11:10 am
  • Concerto Grosso #1
  • Composer: Ernest Bloch
  • Ensemble: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Patricia Michaelian, piano
  • Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
  • CD/Album: Ernest Bloch: America - Concerto Grosso
  • Record co./Cat #: Delos 3135
11:34 am
  • Cello Concerto in a , Op. 129
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Heinrich Schiff, cello
  • Conductor: Bernard Haitink
  • CD/Album: Schumann: Cello Concerto
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 422414
11:58 am
  • Seufzer-Galopp
  • Composer: Johann Strauss
  • Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Claudio Abbado
  • CD/Album: New Year's Concert in Vienna 1991
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 431628
12:05 pm
  • Ciaccona
  • Composer: Alessandro Piccinini (after Monteverdi?)
  • Ensemble: Lislevand Ensemble
  • Soloists: Rolf Lislevand, lute & guitar
  • Conductor: Rolf Lislevand
  • CD/Album: Rolf Lislevand: Nuove musiche
  • Record co./Cat #: ECM 1922
12:08 pm
  • Zefiro's Ground
  • Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
  • Arranger: arr. Maurizio Cazzati
  • Ensemble: Red Priest
  • CD/Album: Priest On The Run
  • Record co./Cat #: Dorian 93208
12:13 pm
  • Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue #18 in g# , BWV 863
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Christopher Atzinger, piano
  • CD/Album: Debut: Bach - Beethoven - Barber - Fritze / Christopher Atzinger
  • Record co./Cat #: MSR 1189
12:19 pm
  • From Dusk to Dawn
  • Composer: Arnold Bax
  • Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Bryden Thomson
  • CD/Album: Bax: Orchestral Works, Volume 9
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 10457
12:41 pm
  • Fountains of Rome
  • Composer: Ottorino Respighi
  • Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Giuseppi Sinopoli
  • CD/Album: Respighi: Pina di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Feste Romane
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 437534

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