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Buried Treasure

05/15/10 8:00AM

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.

 

Playlist

8:02am

Rienzi: Overture

Composer Richard Wagner
Ensemble Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Christian Thielemann
CD/Album German Overtures
Record co./Cat # Deutsche Grammophon 474502

8:18am

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

8:30am

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

8:53am

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

9:05am

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

9:18am

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

9:26am

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

9:55am

Rusalka: Polonaise

Composer Antonin Dvorak
Ensemble Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Vaclav Neumann
CD/Album Dvorak: Cello Concerto - Lloyd Webber
Record co./Cat # Philips 422387

10:03am

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

10:08am

Capriccio (for Oboe & Orchestra)

Composer Amilcare Ponchielli
Arranger (recontstructed from the original fragment by Wolfgang Hohensee)
Ensemble Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Claus Peter Flor
Soloists Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe
CD/Album Romantic Oboe Concertos
Record co./Cat # Capriccio 10281

10:24am

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

10:27am

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

10:34am

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

10:47am

Concerto da camera in a, Op. 10/1 ("chamber concerto")

Composer Charles-Valentin Alkan
Ensemble BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Soloists Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
CD/Album The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 7
Record co./Cat # Hyperion 66717

11:05am

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

11:18am

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

11:28am

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

11:35am

String Quartet: iii - Scherzo

Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Ensemble Delme String Quartet
CD/Album Verdi & Strauss: String Quartets
Record co./Cat # Hyperion 66317

11:48am

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.)

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