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October 22, 2012
The Ox on the Roof
Only in the world of surrealism would a ballet called "The Ox on the Roof" have absolutely nothing to do with an ox. Or a roof. French composer Darius Milhaud wrote it in 1920, just after a two-year trip to Brazil. "The Ox on the Roof" is chock-full of Brazilian melodies and rhythms and energy. We'll hear a terrific performance of Milhaud's oxless, roofless, nonsensical ballet, from a concert in Amsterdam.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Darius Milhaud
Excerpts from La Cheminee Du Roi Rene, Op. 205
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Felix Mendelssohn
Third movement from String Quartet No. 3 in D, Op. 44, No. 1
The Jupiter String Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 in D-flat, Op. 28 (Raindrop)
Russell Sherman, piano
Jordan Hall, Boston
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Leo Brouwer
Cuban Landscape with Rain
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Skaneateles Music Festival, Skaneateles, New York
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Darius Milhaud
Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
hour 2
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Claude Debussy
First movement from Cello Sonata in D Minor
Mischa Maisky, cello, Martha Argerich, piano
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Johann Sebastian Bach and Luther Henderson
Dixie Bach
The Canadian Brass
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
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Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet in A Minor
Lily Maisky, piano, Sascha Maisky, violin, Lyda Chen, viola, Mischa Maisky, cello
The Martha Argerich Project, Lugano, Switzerland
