Musica della sera

Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm

Playlist for Thursday, June 19, 2008

Hosted by Meera Collier-Mitchell

Time
(approx.)

Composer

Selection

Performers

Record Title

Label

7:00

Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)

Chanson de nuit

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, cond.

The Elgar Experience

Warner Classics

Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1924)

§         Nocturne no. 4, op 36 in E flat major

§         Nocturne no. 5, op 37 in B flat major

Sally Pinkas, pianoforte

Gabriel Faure: Nocturnes

Musica Omnia

Sergei Rachmaninov
(1873-1943)

Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Alexander Melnikov, piano

Etudes-Tableaux

Harmonia Mundi

Gabriel Fauré

L’Horizon Chimérique, op. 118
(The illusory horizon)

§         La mer est infinie
(The sea is boundless)

§         Je me suis embarqué
(I boarded upon)

§         Diane, Séléné
(Diana, Selene)

§         Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés
(Vessels, we will have loved you)

Sanford Sylvan, baritone

David Breitman, piano

L’Horizon Chimérique

Nonesuch

Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963)

Salve Regina

Polyphony, Stephen Layton, cond.

Poulenc Gloria & Motets

Hyperion

Gabriel Fauré

Chanson d’Amor, Op. 27, no. 1

Aurore, Op. 39, no. 1

Barbara Bonney, soprano

Warren Jones, piano

Faure Requiem, songs, &c.

RCA Victor

8:00

Requiem, Op. 48

§         Introit et Kyrie

§         Offertoire

§         Sanctus

§         Pie Jesu

§         Agnus Dei

§         Libera me

§         In Paradisum

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seji Ozawa, cond.

Barbara Bonney, soprano

Hakan Hågegård, baritone

Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, cond.

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)

Fantasia in C minor, K475

§         Adagio

§         Allegro

§         Andantino

§         Piú Allegro

§         Tempo I

Stephen Hough, piano

A Mozart Album

Hyperion

9:00

Thomas Dunhill
(1877-1946)

Friendship’s Garland: A Suite of Five Miniatures, op. 97

Erin Hannigan, Oboe

Simon Sargon, Piano

From Hafiz to Firewing (and Beyond)

Crystal Records

Ludwig Van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

12 Contretanze

Helsingborg Synphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze, cond.

Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”, etc.

Harmonia Mundi

Alexander Zemlisky
(1871-1942)

In der Sonnengasse

Herr Bombardil

Hermine Haselbock, Mezzo-soprano

Florian Henschel, piano

Songs by Zemlinsky

Bridge Records

Leonard Bernstein

Walt Whitman, txt

To What You Said

Thomas Hampson, baritone

Craig Rutenberg, piano

Song of America

EMI Classics

Steve Reich

I sure hope Gabriel likes my music, when the day is done (Daneil Variations)

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Grant Gershon, cond.

Daniel Variations

Nonesuch