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VPR Classical Debuts

Friday, 11/06/09 3pm

Baroque masterworks by Handel and Purcell, a new Schumann Piano Quintet recording, and mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena's album "Songs My Mother Taught Me" will be heard for the first time on VPR Classical this afternoon.

Playlist

3:02pm

Suite Algerienne, Op. 60

Composer Camille Saint-Saens
Ensemble Swiss Italian Orchestra
Conductor Francis Travis
Soloists Jody Levitz, viola
CD/Album Saint-Saens: Suite algerienne - La princesse jaune
Record co./Cat # Chandos 9837
 

3:23pm

Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Soloists Andrew Rangell, piano
Record co./Cat # Dorian 80147
Note (from Cantata #208)
 

3:29pm

Piano Quintet in Eb, Op. 44

Composer Robert Schumann
Ensemble Takacs Quartet
Soloists Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
CD/Album Schumann: String Quartet Op. 41 No. 3 - Piano Quintet Op. 44
Record co./Cat # Hyperion 67631
 

4:13pm

Serenade for 13 Winds

Composer Richard Strauss
Ensemble Seattle Symphony Orchestra (wind players)
Conductor Gerard Schwarz
CD/Album Strauss: Heldenleben/Macbeth/Serenade for Winds, Schwarz - Seattle Symphony
Record co./Cat # Delos 3094
 

4:23pm

Fantasia #1 in three parts

Composer Henry Purcell
Ensemble Fretwork
CD/Album Henry Purcell: The COmplete Fantazias
Record co./Cat # Harmonia Mundi 907502
 

4:26pm

Fantasia #2 in three parts

Composer Henry Purcell
Ensemble Fretwork
CD/Album Henry Purcell: The COmplete Fantazias
Record co./Cat # Harmonia Mundi 907502
 

4:29pm

Fantasia #3 in three parts

Composer Henry Purcell
Ensemble Fretwork
CD/Album Henry Purcell: The COmplete Fantazias
Record co./Cat # Harmonia Mundi 907502
 

4:33pm

Orchestral Suite #4 "Mozartiana" in G, Op. 61

Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ensemble Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart
Conductor Neville Marriner
CD/Album Tchaikovsky: Suites 3 & 4 ' Mozartiana'
Record co./Cat # Capriccio 10200
 

5:07pm

Academic Festival Overture in c, Op. 80

Composer Johannes Brahms
Ensemble Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor George Szell
CD/Album Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Record co./Cat # Sony 37778
 

5:19pm

Gypsy Melodies: #4 - Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55/4

Composer Antonin Dvorak
Soloists Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano ; Malcolm Martineau, piano
CD/Album Magdalena Kozena: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Record co./Cat # Deutsche Grammophon 4776665
 

5:21pm

Gypsy Melodies: #5 - The strings are tuned, Op. 55/5

Composer Antonin Dvorak
Soloists Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano ; Malcolm Martineau, piano
CD/Album Magdalena Kozena: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Record co./Cat # Deutsche Grammophon 4776665
 

5:23pm

Gypsy Melodies: #3 - And the wood is quiet all around, Op. 55/3

Composer Antonin Dvorak
Soloists Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano ; Malcolm Martineau, piano
CD/Album Magdalena Kozena: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Record co./Cat # Deutsche Grammophon 4776665
 

5:27pm

Concerto #4 in Eb

Composer John Hebden
Ensemble Cantilena
Conductor Adrian Shepherd
Soloists Angus Anderson, violin ; Wanda Wojtasinska, violin
CD/Album Hebden: 6 Concertos for Strings-Cantilena
Record co./Cat # Chandos 8339
 

5:38pm

Holberg Suite, Op. 40

Composer Edvard Grieg
Ensemble Scottish Baroque Ensemble
Conductor Leonard Friedman
CD/Album Scandinavian Serenade
Record co./Cat # CRD 3342
 

6:07pm

Estancia

Composer Alberto Ginastera
Ensemble New World Orchestra
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
CD/Album Tanzago - Music of Latin America
Record co./Cat # Argo 436737
 

6:21pm

Violin Sonata in F, Op. 1/12, HWV 370

Composer George Friederich Handel
Ensemble Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor Richard Egarr
Soloists Richard Egarr, harpsichord ; Pavlo Beznosiuk, violin
Record co./Cat # Harmonia Mundi 907465
 

6:37pm

Piano Concerto #1 (with Trumpet) in c, Op. 35

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Ensemble I Musici de Montreal
Conductor Maxim Shostakovich
Soloists Dmitri Shostakovich Jr., piano ; James Thompson, trumpet
CD/Album Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Record co./Cat # Chandos 8357