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December 21, 2010
Handel's Messiah from Berlin
Word on the street was, it was going to be something special. Advance ticket sales were hot. To pack as many people as possible into the theater, ladies were asked not to wear hoop skirts. Gentlemen were advised to please leave their swords at home. It was the premiere of Handel's Messiah in 1742. It's a work that still packs people into concert halls, nearly 270 years later. In today's show, one of the best Messiah performances from last season, by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin and the Rias Chamber Chorus, from a concert in Berlin.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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George Frideric Handel
Passacaglia from Radamisto
The Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
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Eric Whitacre
Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold)
VocalEssence and the Saint Olaf Choir, Eric Whitacre, director
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
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Alexander Scriabin
Prelude No. 12 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 11
Yuja Wang, piano
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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George Frideric Handel
Excerpts from Messiah, HWV 56
The Academy for Ancient Music Berlin and Rias Chamber Chorus, soloists, Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor
Konzerthaus, Berlin, Germany
hour 2
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Morten Lauridsen
So They Say, from the Songs of the Roses
The Chamber Choir of Europe, Morten Lauridsen, piano, Nicol Matt, conductor
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 (Winter from the Four Seasons)
Margaret Batjer, violin, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Royce Hall, Los Angeles
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Otto Nicolai
Moonrise, from the Merry Wives of Windsor
The Vienna Philharmonic and Singing Union of Friends of Music in Vienna, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria
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Anonymous (Arranged by David Douglass)
New Year's Eve and Long Cold Nights
The King's Noyse
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Morten Lauridsen
Excerpts from Lux Aeterna
Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton, conductor
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Morten Lauridsen
Sure on this Shining Night
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson, director
Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas
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Antonin Dvorak
Song to the Moon, from Rusalka
The Metropolitan Opera Brass
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Astor Piazzolla
Summer from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin, the New Century Chamber Orchestra
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto, California
