This morning we’ll listen to some little-known gems spanning the
centuries of classical music. We’ll hear great works by composers that
have faded into obscurity, and obscure works more well-known composers.
Buried Treasure
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Playlist:
8:02 am
- Rienzi: Overture
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Christian Thielemann
- CD/Album: German Overtures
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 474502
8:18 am
- Concerto for Strings "Polish" in G
- Composer: Georg Phillip Telemann
- Ensemble: The English Concert
- Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
- CD/Album: Christmas Concertos
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 435262
8:30 am
- Piano Sonata #10 in C , K 330
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Soloists: Mitsuko Uchida, piano
- CD/Album: Mozart: 2 Piano Sonatas K. 330 & 333 - Adagio K. 540 & Gigue K 574
- Record co./Cat #: Philips 412616
8:53 am
- The Magic Flute: Overture , K 620
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Charles Mackerras
- CD/Album: Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Highlights) - Mackerras
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80345
9:05 am
- Barcarolle in F# , Op. 60 , B 158
- Composer: Frederic Chopin
- Soloists: Krystian Zimerman, piano
- CD/Album: Chopin: 4 Balladen / Barcarolle / Fantasie
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 423090
9:18 am
- 4 Old Hungarian Folksongs , Sz 50
- Composer: Bela Bartok
- Ensemble: Hungarian People's Army Male Chorus
- Conductor: Zoltan Vasarhelyi
- CD/Album: Bartok: Choral Works
- Record co./Cat #: Hungaroton 31047
9:26 am
- Hary Janos: Suite
- Composer: Zoltan Kodaly
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
- CD/Album: Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite, etc.
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8877
9:55 am
- Rusalka: Polonaise
- Composer: Antonin Dvorak
- Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor: Vaclav Neumann
- CD/Album: Dvorak: Cello Concerto - Lloyd Webber
- Record co./Cat #: Philips 422387
10:03 am
- Duetto (for double bass & trombone)
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Soloists: Jeremy McCoy, double bass ; Demian Austin, trombone
- CD/Album: Dialogues With Double Bass
- Record co./Cat #: Bridge 9163
10:08 am
- Capriccio (for Oboe & Orchestra)
- Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
- Arranger: (recontstructed from the original fragment by Wolfgang Hohensee)
- Ensemble: Berlin Symphony Orchestra
- Soloists: Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe
- Conductor: Claus Peter Flor
- CD/Album: Romantic Oboe Concertos
- Record co./Cat #: Capriccio 10281
10:24 am
- 3 German Songs: Das Finden ("To find")
- Composer: Franz Xavier Mozart
- Soloists: Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Malcom Martineau, piano
- CD/Album: Barbara Bonney - The Other Mozart
- Record co./Cat #: London 5505
10:27 am
- 3 German Songs: Bertha's Lied in der nacht ("Bertha's song in the night")
- Composer: Franz Xavier Mozart
- Soloists: Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Malcom Martineau, piano
- CD/Album: Barbara Bonney - The Other Mozart
- Record co./Cat #: London 5505
10:34 am
- Sonata #7 for Flute & bass continuo in Bb
- Composer: Teodorico Pedrini
- Ensemble: Musique des Lumieres
- CD/Album: Pedrini: Concert Baroque a La Cite Interdite
- Record co./Cat #: Astree 8609
10:47 am
- Concerto da camera in a , Op. 10/1 ("chamber concerto")
- Composer: Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Soloists: Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
- Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
- CD/Album: The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 7
- Record co./Cat #: Hyperion 66717
11:05 am
- Men and Mountains
- Composer: Carl Ruggles
- Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
- Conductor: Christoph Von Dohnanyi
- CD/Album: Ives: 3 Places in New England/Ruggles: Sun-treader
- Record co./Cat #: London 443776
11:18 am
- Aqui Ta Naqui lyai ("Here our Father in present, it's a gift which you give us")
- Composer: Anonymous
- Ensemble: Florilegium
- Soloists: Katia Escalera, soprano
- CD/Album: Bolivian Baroque
- Record co./Cat #: Channel Classics 22105
11:28 am
- Cradle Song (for double bass & viola)
- Composer: Reinhold Gliere
- Soloists: Jeremy McCoy, double bass ; Ira Weller, viola
- CD/Album: Dialogues With Double Bass
- Record co./Cat #: Bridge 9163
11:35 am
- String Quartet: iii - Scherzo
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Delme String Quartet
- CD/Album: Verdi & Strauss: String Quartets
- Record co./Cat #: Hyperion 66317
11:48 am
- Triumphlied: Lebhaft - Etwas lebhafter - Feierlich , Op. 55 ("Song of Triumph")
- Composer: Johannes Brahms
- Ensemble: Danish National Radio Symphony & Chorus
- Soloists: Bo Skovhus, baritone
- CD/Album: Brahms: Trumphlied, etc.
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 10165
- Note: (text taken from Revelations, chapter 19. Written 1870-1 as a song of deliverance and victory to celebrate Germany's victories in the Franco-Prussian War and the reunification of the empire.)