Aeolian Impromptu

Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm

Playlist for Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Guest hosted by Meera Collier-Mitchell

Time (approx.)

Composer

Selection

Performers

Record Title

Label

7:00 pm

Mark O’Connor

Double Violin Concerto:

·         Swing

·         Midnight on the Dance Floor

·         Dixieland

Mark O’Connor, violin

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin

Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, cond.

Double Violin Concerto

OMAC Records

7:30 pm

Aaron Copland

Inscape

American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond.

The Vision of Francis Goelet

New World Records

 

Charles Ives

Song (She is Not Fair)
The All-Enduring

Jan deGaetani, mezzo-soprano

Gilbert Kalish, piano

Songs of America

Elektra Nonesuch

 

Rebecca Clarke

Lethe

8:00 pm

Ernest Bloch

Baal Shem:

·         Vidui (Contrition)

·         Nigun (Improvisation)

·         Sinchas Torah (Rejoicing)

Leonard Friedman, violin

Allan Schiller, piano

Bloch: Baal Shem & the Two Violin Sonatas

ASV

 

Gustav Mahler

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
(Songs of a Wayfarer)

·         When my sweetheart celebrates her wedding

·         This morning I walked over the field

·         I have a gleaming knife

·         My sweetheart’s two blue eyes

Dietrich Henschel, baritone

Fritz Schwinghammer, piano

Invitation Au Voyage

Harmonia mundi

8:30 pm

Erik Satie

Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear

Gabor Eckhardt, Piano

Satie Piano Works Vol. 4

Naxos

 

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Preludes, Op. 7

·         Elastically Hammering

·         Slowly Enough

·         Nervously but in Rhythm

·         Chorale & Variation

·         Fugato

·         Shivering

·         Alla Finale

Partita, Op. 34

Laura Mikkola, Piano

Works for Piano

Naxos

9:00 pm

John Rutter

When Icicles Hang

·         Icicles

·         Winter Nights

·         Good ale

·         Blow, blow, thou winter wind

·         Winter wakeneth all my care

·         Hay, ay

The Cambridge Singers

The city of London Sinfonia

Simon Davies, Baritone

Duke Dobing, Flute

Fancies: Music by John Rutter

Collegium Records

 

Earl Kim

Where Grief Slumbers

·         Listen to it rain

·         From Drunken Boat

·         It’s raining

·         Ophelia

·         The Farewell

·         The Departure

·         The girl with orange lips

Dawn Upshaw, Soprano

The girl with the orange lips

Elektra Nonesuch