Les Nuits d'été
07/05/11 8:00AM
Ahh, summer nights: starry skies and warm, flower-perfumed breezes
wafting in through open windows. This morning's music features highlights from Hector
Berlioz's evocative song cycle "Les Nuits d'été" - "Summer nights" with
the incomparable soprano Régine Crespin. Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" completes the picture in our 9am hour together.
Playlist
8:08am
Danse
| Composer | Claude Debussy |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | The Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Conductor | Eugene Ormandy |
| CD/Album | "Debussy: La Mer, Prelude, Nocturnes" |
| Record co./Cat # | Sony 53256 |
8:14am
Jeux d'eau
| Composer | Maurice Ravel |
|---|---|
| Soloists | Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano |
| CD/Album | "Ravel: Complete works for solo piano" |
| Record co./Cat # | London 433515 |
| Note | ("water games") |
8:20am
Orchestral Suite #4 in G, Op. 61 "Mozartiana"
| 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 |
| Note | (including themes from "Don Giovanni" and the motet "Ave Verum Corpus") |
8:46am
Trio Sonata #5 in C, BWV 529
| Composer | Johann Sebastian Bach |
|---|---|
| Soloists | Heinz Holliger, oboe ; Tabea Zimmermann, viola ; Christiane Jaccottet, harpsichord ; Thomas Demenga, cello |
| CD/Album | "Bach - The Trio Sonatas" |
| Record co./Cat # | Philips 422328 |
| Note | (arr. from Organ Sonata #5) |
9:02am
The Secret: Overture
| Composer | Bedrich Smetana |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | BBC Philharmonic |
| Conductor | Gianandrea Noseda |
| CD/Album | "Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2" |
| Record co./Cat # | Chandos 10518 |
9:10am
Les Nuits d'ete: Villanelle; Le Spectre de la rose; L'Ile inconunue
| Composer | Hector Berlioz |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
| Conductor | Ernest Ansermet |
| Soloists | Regine Crespin, soprano |
| CD/Album | "Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete, Ravel: Sheherazade, etc" |
| Record co./Cat # | London 4757712 |
| Note | ("Summer Nights: Villanelle; The spectre of the rose; The unknown island") |
9:24am
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
| Composer | Manuel de Falla |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Conductor | Rafael Fruhbeck-de Burgos |
| Soloists | Alicia de Larrocha, piano |
| CD/Album | "Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain" |
| Record co./Cat # | London 410289 |
9:50am
Jacaras & Tarantelas
| Composer | Santiago de Murcia |
|---|---|
| Soloists | Paul O'Dette, lute ; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp ; Pedro Estevan, percussion |
| CD/Album | "Jacaras! 18th Century Guitar Music of Santiago de Murcia" |
| Record co./Cat # | Harmonia Mundi 907212 |