The Third Floor's Weekly Oasis of Great Classical Music: #263

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Sun, 08/09/2020 - 8:00am to 11:00am

On this week’s program, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, and Janacek’s Sinfonietta. Along the way, music from Bellini, Howells, Bach, Purcell, and Schubert.

TTF Program 263

August 9th, 2020

Hour One

Michael Haydn: Sancti Dei (St. Jacob’s Chamber Choir, dir. Gary Graden) 1:30

Purcell: Let us dance (Nancy Argenta, soprano) 1:30

Schubert: Symphony #5 (Vienna Philharmonic, dir. Karl Bohm) 28:20

Janacek: Sinfonietta (Warsaw Philharmonic, dir. Antoni Wit) 23:32

Hour Two

Howells: Salve Regina (Hannah Partridge, soprano; The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, dir. Stephen Layton) 5:00

Bellini: Vaga luna che inargenti (Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo; James Levine, piano) 4:00

Beethoven: Symphony #6, Pastoral (Vienna Philharmonic, dir. Karl Bohm) 45:30

Hour Three

Byttering: En Katerine solennia (The Binchois Consort, dir. Andrew Kirkman) 2:46

Bach: Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? (Joanne Lunn, soprano; Richard Wyn Roberts, alto; Julian Podger, tenor; Gerald Finley, bass; The Monteverdi Choir; The English Baroque Soloists; dir. John Eliot Gardiner) 11:38

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 (Joshua Bell, violin; Berlin Philharmonic; dir. Michael Tilson Thomas) 37:00