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February 9, 2012
Also Sprach Zarathustra
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Those opening lines from Dickens'"A Tale of Two Cities" are burned into almost everyone's consciousness. But what about the rest of the book? Who can quote that? In today's show, we'll have another great opening line, the sunrise from "Also Sprach Zarathustra." Everyone knows it from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Plus the part no one remembers, the rest of the half-hour tone poem by Richard Strauss.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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York Bowen
Preludes Nos. 21 and 16, Op. 102
Stephen Hough, piano
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Third movement from Double Concerto in E Minor for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1
Anna Fusek, recorder, Christoph Huntgeburth, flute, the Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin
Saint Lawrence's Church, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Perfchat with Paul Jacobs
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Edward Elgar
Allegretto from Sonata in G, Op. 28
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Third movement from Trio Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
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Nadia Boulanger
Prelude
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
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Florence Beatrice Price
Fughetta
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
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York Bowen
Finale from Symphony No. 2, Op. 31
The BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis, conductor
hour 2
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Jules Massenet
The Last Sleep of the Virgin, from La Vierge
The City of Birmingham Symphony, Louis Fremaux, conductor
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Francois Dompierre
Prelude No. 1 for Piano Solo
Alain Lefevre, piano
Wilfrid-Pelletier Hall, Montreal, Quebec
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Aaron Copland
Piano Blues No. 1
Ricardo Descalzo, piano
Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Spain
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Vincent Segal
"Ma-Ma" FC
Ballake Sissoko, kora, Vincent Segal, cello
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
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Kevin Volans
First movement from String Quartet No. 1 (White Man Sleeps)
The Kronos Quartet
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
