Edvard Grieg - Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra Op. 16 - Philippe Entremont, piano, with the Philadelphia Orchestra directed by Eugene Ormandy (Grieg's one and only piano concerto, and what a concerto it is.)
Bedrich Smetana - The Moldau (from Ma Vlast - My Fatherland) - the Vienna Philharmonic directed by James Levine
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere (with embellishments by Deborah Roberts)- The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips - The Papal Choir of the Sistine Chapel was in the habit of improvising when it performed Allegri's basic score, a tradition carried on here by the Tallis Scholars' Deborah Roberts. The story that we have the Miserere now because Mozart copied it from memory and disseminated it after a visit to the Sistine Chapel may or may not be entirely true. Certainly he did copy it, but music historians believe other copies already existed.)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) - performed by the Seattle Symphony under the baton of Gerard Schwarz - Born on this day in 1846 in Munich, his father was one of Germany's greatest horn players - perhaps one reason Strauss wrote so well for brass instruments.
Sir Edward Elgar - Two short pieces: first, Romance, performed by the English Chamber Orchestra directed by Paul Goodwin; second, In Smyrna, a short piano piece inspired by a trip to Turkey, performed by Stephen Hough.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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