Serenade to Music
09/10/12 9:00AM
Our music today will include Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, a beautiful setting of lines from the final scene of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. They begin:
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Playlist
9:01am
| Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in Bb, Op. 11 |
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| Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Soloists: David Shifrin, clarinet ; David Finckel, cello ; Wu Han, piano |
| CD/Album: Clarinet Trios |
| Record co./Cat #: ArtistLed 11101 |
9:24am
| Beatus Vir (motet: "Blessed is the man...") |
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| Composer: Claudio Monteverdi |
| Ensemble: Taverner Players & Choir |
| Conductor: Andrew Parrott |
| Soloists: Emma Kirkby, soprano ; Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor ; Nigel Rogers, tenor |
| CD/Album: Monteverdi: Mass of Thanksgiving; Venetian Vesper Music |
| Record co./Cat #: EMI 54886 |
9:35am
| Symphony #29 in E, HOB 1/29 |
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| Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music |
| Conductor: Christopher Hogwood |
| CD/Album: Haydn Symphonies 1764-1765: 21,22,23,24,28,29,30,31,34 |
| Record co./Cat #: L'Oiseau-Lyre 430082 |
10:01am
| The Damnation of Faust: selections |
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| Composer: Hector Berlioz |
| Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Conductor: Seiiji Ozawa |
| CD/Album: Panorama - Hector Berlioz |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 469118 |
10:15am
| Etudes (selections), Op. 10 & Op. 25 |
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| Composer: Frederic Chopin |
| Soloists: Maurizio Pollini, piano |
| CD/Album: Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25 |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 413794 |
10:37am
| Violin Concerto #1 in D, Op. 19 |
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| Composer: Sergei Prokofiev |
| Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra |
| Conductor: Andre Previn |
| Soloists: Gil Shaham, violin |
| CD/Album: Prokofiev: Violinkonzerte, Solosonate |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 447758 |
11:01am
| Serenade to Music |
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| Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Ensemble: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus |
| Conductor: Robert Spano |
| CD/Album: Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia / Symphony No. 5 |
| Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80676 |
11:16am
| Quatrieme Concert |
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| Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau |
| Ensemble: Trio Settecento |
| Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, violin ; John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba ; David Schrader, harpsichord |
| CD/Album: A French Soiree: Trio Settecento |
| Record co./Cat #: Cedille 90000 129 |
11:28am
| Symphony #5 in Bb, D 485 |
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| Composer: Franz Schubert |
| Ensemble: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam |
| Conductor: Leonard Bernstein |
| CD/Album: Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8 'Unfinished' |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 427645 |
12:05pm
| Donna Diana: Overture |
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| Composer: Emil von Reznicek |
| Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra |
| Conductor: Neeme Jarvi |
| CD/Album: Panorama - Favorite Overtures |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 469322 |
12:12pm
| String Sonata #5 in Eb |
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| Composer: Gioachino Rossini |
| Ensemble: Bern Camerata |
| Conductor: Thomas Fueri |
| CD/Album: Rossini: Sonaten fur Streicher |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 413310 |
12:29pm
| The Threepenny Opera Suite |
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| Composer: Kurt Weill |
| Ensemble: London Sinfonia |
| Conductor: David Atherton |
| CD/Album: Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - Mahagonny - Songspiel - Violinkonzert |
| Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 423255 |
12:52pm
| Liebesfreud (after Fritz Kreisler) ("love's joy") |
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| Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Soloists: Jorge Bolet, piano |
| CD/Album: Rachmaninov: Chopin Variations/Preludes |
| Record co./Cat #: London 421061 |