Choral, Vocal, and Instrumental Classical Music on The Third Floor: #231

Hosted by:

William Cromwell

Produced by:

KBOO

Program::

The Third Floor

Air date:

Sun, 12/29/2019 - 8:00am to 11:00am

Great show today with music from Ottorino Respighi, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Part, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Samuel Barber, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Wagner, to name a handful of the composers joining us on The Third Floor.

TTF Program 231

December 29th, 2019

Hour One

Part: Da pacem Domine (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, dir. Paul Hillier) 5:45
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade excerpts, Sinbad and the sea (Kirov Orchestra, dir. Valery Gergiev) 10:25
Rachmaninoff: Vespers -- 1,5,6,7,11 (Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, dir. John Scott) 19:30
Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral March (Vienna Philharmonic, dir. Sir Georg Solti) 7:45
Mily Balakirev 1837-1910: Islamey (Kirov Orchestra, dir. Valery Gergiev) 8:19

Hour Two

Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, dir. Jesus Lopez-Cobos) 18:15
Schubert: excerpts from Winterreise 1,6,7 (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Jorg Demus, piano) 16:00
Britten: War Requiem excerpts -- Offertorium and Libera Me (Bach Choir; London Philharmonic, dir. Benjamin Britten) 23:42

Hour Three

Barber: Agnus Dei (The Sixteen) 7:11
Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden and the (traditional) Storm is Passing Over (American Boychoir, Kerry Heimann, piano accompanist, dir. Fernando Malvar-Ruiz) 7:00
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony #5 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dir. Sir Georg Solti) 9:42
Mahler: 5th movement from the 3rd (Petra Lang, soprano; Women of Westminster Choir College; American Boychoir; NY Philharmonic, dir. Alan Gilbert) 5:42
Mahler: Symphony #2 first movement (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, dir. Simon Rattle) 24:00