 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
February 2, 2012
Four Last Songs
If young men view death as an enemy to be conquered, then perhaps it's true that old men welcome it as a friend. That was the case with Richard Strauss, who imagined death and the afterlife in music when he was 26, with "Death and Transfiguration." The 84-year-old Strauss drew a warmer, richer, more bittersweet picture of death in his "Four Last Songs." Renee Fleming sings two, in concert in London.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
-
Bela Bartok
Romanian Dance, BB 61
The Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer conductor
-
Harold Arlen
Over the Rainbow
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
-
George Gershwin
Bess, You is my Woman Now, from Porgy and Bess
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin and leader, the New Century Chamber Orchestra
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
-
Richard Strauss
Spring and at Sunset, from Four Last Songs
Renee Fleming, soprano, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
-
Richard Strauss
Waldseligkeit (Forest Rapture), Op. 49, No. 1
Renee Fleming, soprano, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
-
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
-
Edouard Lalo
Second movement from Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21
Chee-yun, violin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
-
Franz Schubert
Trio in B-flat for Violin, Viola and Cello, D. 471
Augustin Hadelich, violin, Richard O'Neill, viola, Godfried Hoogeveen, cello
Benaroya Hall, Seattle
-
Francois Couperin
Sonade L'Espagnole, from Les Nations
The Masques Ensemble, Olivier Fortin, conductor and harpsichord
Our Lady of Good Help Chapel, Montreal, Quebec
-
Isaac Albeniz
Tango from Espana, Op. 165
Mischa Maisky, cello, Lily Maisky, piano
International Chamber Music Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
-
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
The North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, John Axelrod, conductor
Grand Studio, Hanover, Germany
-
Stephen Paulus
Pilgrims' Hymn
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton, conductor
