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Morning Classics: October's Here!

Thursday, 10/01/09 8am on Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby

C. Willoughby
October's here, bringing out the hunters in music by Mehul and von Weber - and a burnished bouquet of autumn-blooming flowers by Scottish composer James Oswald. We'll also hear from 2006 National poet laureate Donald Hall, reading his poem "Kicking the Leaves".

Playlist

8:08am

Bacchanale

Composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Ensemble Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gerard Schwarz
CD/Album "Made in the USA: American Symphonic Music"
Record co./Cat # Delos 3508
 

8:13am

String Quartet #1 in Bb, Op. 1/#1 "La chasse"

Composer Franz Joseph Haydn
Ensemble Hagen Quartet
CD/Album "Haydn: >>Lerchenquartett<<->>Reiterquartett<<"
Record co./Cat # Deutsche Grammophon 423622
Note (this is #1 of the three Op. 1 Quartets)
 

8:28am

Autumn Leaves, Op. 106/1

Composer Charles Villiers Stanford
Arranger (arr. of a traditional English folksong)
Ensemble The King's Singers
CD/Album "My Spirit Sang All Day"
Record co./Cat # EMI 49765
Note (on verse by Charles Dickens)
 

8:33am

Autumn Concertino for Harp, Strings & Percussion

Composer Virgil Thomson
Ensemble LA Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Neville Marriner
Soloists Ann Mason Stockton, harp
CD/Album "Virgil Thomson: Music for Film, The River" & "Plow That Broke the Plains"
Record co./Cat # EMI 47715
 

8:43am

Fantasia in d, K 397

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soloists Mitsuko Uchida, piano
CD/Album "Mozart: 2 Sonatas - Uchida"
Record co./Cat # Philips 412123
 

8:43am

poem: "Kicking the Leaves"

Composer Donald Hall, poet and narrator
CD/Album poetry anthology: "White Apples and the Taste of Stone" (Mariner Books, 2007)
 

8:51am

The Marvel of Peru (Autumn)

Composer James Oswald
Ensemble The Broadside Band
Conductor Jeremy Barlow
CD/Album "Oswald: Airs for the Seasons-The Broadside Band"
Record co./Cat # Dorian 80164
 

8:55am

The Night Shade (Autumn)

Composer James Oswald
Ensemble The Broadside Band
Conductor Jeremy Barlow
CD/Album "Oswald: Airs for the Seasons-The Broadside Band"
Record co./Cat # Dorian 80164
 

9:02am

Young Henry's Hunt: Overture

Composer Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Ensemble L'Orchestre de Bretagne
Conductor Stefan Sanderling
CD/Album "Mehul: Overtures"
Record co./Cat # ASV 1140
 

9:14am

Der Freischutz: Hunters' Chorus

Composer Carl Maria von Weber
Ensemble Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor Silvio Varviso
Soloists Ekkehard Wagner, tenor ; Leipzig Radio Chorus
CD/Album "German Opera Choruses - Leipzig Radio Chorus"
Record co./Cat # Philips 422410
Note (chorus) "What earthly pleasure could compare with the huntsman's?"
 

9:18am

Four Sketches, Op. 15/1: In Autumn

Composer Amy Beach
Soloists Joanne Polk, piano
CD/Album "Fire-flies: The Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach"
Record co./Cat # Arabesque 6721
 

9:21am

Symphony #3 in a, Op. 56 "Scottish"

Composer Felix Mendelssohn
Ensemble San Francisco Symphony
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt
CD/Album "Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4"
Record co./Cat # London 433811
 

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