Old and New Classical Masterpieces: #265

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Program::

The Third Floor

Air date:

Sun, 08/23/2020 - 8:00am to 11:00am

Three featured works: an early symphony from Dvorak, a setting of poems put to music by Gerald Finzi, and Grieg’s piano concerto, plus music of Lauridsen, Schubert, Haydn, and Bach.

TTF Program 265

August 23, 2020

Hour One

Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria (Polyphony, dir. Stephen Layton) 6:38

Harrison: Suite for Timothy -- 1948 (Royal Ballet Sinfonia, dir. Gavin Sutherland) 18:13

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor (Murray Perahia, piano; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; dir. Sir Colin Davis) 29:30

Hour Two

Carissimi: Lucifer (Marco Scavazze, baritone with the Consortium Carissimi) 5:09

Haydn: London Trio #3 (Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; Isaac Stern, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello) 10:38

Finzi: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges (The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; dir. Stephen Layton) 18:40

Maconchy: Overture Proud Thames (BBC Symphony Orchestra, dir. Sakari Oramo) 6:19

Chopin: Etudes 1-5 from op. 10 (Jan Lisiecki) 9:30

Hour Three

Schubert: Nachthelle, Night Brightness by Johann Gabriel Seidl (Ekkehard Wagner, tenor; Bernd Casper, piano; Männerchor des Rundfunkchor Berlin; dir. Dietrich Knothe) 6:11

Dvorak: Symphony #3 in e flat, op. 10 (Wiener Philharmoniker, dir. Myn-Whun Chung) 33:30

Bach: Ach wie fluchtig, ach wie nichtig (Joanne Lunn, soprano; Paul Agnew, tenor; Peter Harvey, bass; The Monteverdi Choir; The English Baroque Soloists; dir. John Eliot Gardiner) 15:26