Musica della sera

Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm

Playlist for Thursday, October 28, 2010

Hosted by Meera Collier-Mitchell

Time

Composer

Selection

Performers

Record Title

Label

7:00

Camille Saint-Saëns
(1835 –1921)

Danse Macabre

Orchestre National de L’O.R.T.F, Jean Martinon, conductor

Saint-Saens/Poulenc

Erato

Frédéric Chopin
(1810 – 1849)

Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 “Funeral March”

▪          Grave, Doppio movimento

▪          Scherzo

▪          Marche funčbre

▪          Presto

Artur Rubenstein, piano

The Chopin Collection: The Sonatas

RCA Red Seal

7:30

Sergei Rachmaninov
(1873 – 1943)

Night

Iris Oja, mezzo-soprano

Roger Vignoles, piano

Rachmaninov/Shostakovich Songs

Harmonia Mundi

Franz Schubert
(1797 – 1828)

Der Erkönig, D. 328

Ian Bostridge, tenor

Julius Drake, piano

Schubert Lieder

EMI Classics

W. A. Mozart

(1756 – 1791)

Requiem:

Dies Irae

London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Colin Davis, conductor

London Symphony Chorus

Mozart: Requiem

LSO

J. S. Bach

(1685 – 1750)

Toccata & Fugue in d-minor, BWV 565)

Ton Koopman, organ

Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works

Hänssler Classics

Gregorian Chant

Dies Irae

The Gregorian Choir of Grimbergen Abbey, Gereon van Boesschoten, director

Verrijzenis: Gregoriaans Abdijkoor Grimbergen

Euforta

8:00

Hildegard von Bingen
(1098—1179)

Ordo virtutum:

Scene Two: Ego Humilitas

Sequentia

Carmen-Renate Köper, Hildegard

William Mockridge, Devil

Ordo Virtutum

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Henry Purcell
(1658—1695)

Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

▪          March

▪          “Man that is born”

▪          Canzona

▪          “In the midst of life”

▪          Canzona

▪          “Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our Hearts”

▪          March

The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Music for Queen Mary

Erato

8:30

Einojuhani Rautavaara
(b. 9 October 1928)

Lorca Suite

▪          Canción de jinete

▪          El Grito

▪          La Luna Asoma

▪          Malagueńa

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier, conductor

Baltic Voices 1

Production USA

Béla Bartók
(1881—1945)

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Adagio

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan, conductor

Bartok: Concert for Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon

Modest Mussorgsky
(1839—1881)

St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain

(Version for Bass-Baritone, Children’s Choir, Choir & Orchestra)

Berliner Philharmoniker

Anatoli Kotcherga, Bass-Baritone

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Dietrich Knote, Director

Sudtiroler Kinderchor

Mussorgsky: St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, &c.

Sony Classical

9:00

Carl Orff
(1895—1982)

Carmina burana:

Fortuna imperatrix mundi

▪          O Fortuna

▪          Fortune plango vulnera

In taberna

▪          Estuans interius

▪          Olim lacus colueram

▪          Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis

▪          In taberna quando sumus

Fortuna imperatrix mundi

▪          O Fortuna

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Sylvia McNair, soprano

John Aler, tenor

Hĺkan Hagegĺrd, baritone

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

RCA Victor

Morten Lauridsen
(b. 1943)

▪          Intercession in Late October

Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor

Nocturnes

Hyperion

 

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