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Instrumental Works By Opera Composers
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Bellini, Rossini, and Verdi are best known as composers of opera, but today we hear some of their instrumental works.Interlude
Happy Birthday, Giuseppe Verdi
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We celebrate the October 9 (or perhaps 10), 1813 birthday of Giuseppe Verdi with a performance of his Four Sacred Pieces.
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George Gershwin
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We celebrate George Gershwin’s September 26, 1898 birthday with a few of his best known classical works.Interlude
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade sing in this recording of the complete incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn.Interlude
20th Century English Composers
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In honor of the "Last Night of the Proms," to be heard later this afternoon, we hear music by three prominent English composers: Edward Elgar, William Walton, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.Interlude
Respighi and Beethoven
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We hear two mellow works for the end of summer: one of Respighi’s suites of Ancient Airs and Dances and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.Interlude
Music by Mozart
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Murray Perahia performs a Mozart piano concerto, and the Emersons perform a Mozart string quartet.Interlude
