March 3, 2008

Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition

New Year's Eve is a big deal in Berlin. An estimated million people converge upon the center of the city every year for a celebration. And you can feel that sense of excitement in a New Year's Eve performance of Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Even if you've heard this piece many times before, we think that you'll find this a particularly thrilling interpretation.

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hour 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
First movement from Serenade in D, K. 239
The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Herbert von Karajan
Traditional (Iberian)
"Saltarello Alfonso X el Sabio" from "Cantigas de Santa Maria"
Hesperion XXI
Musica Mundi Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Sargis Barkhudaryan
"Naz-bar" ("Coy Dance")
Pianist Sahan Arzruni
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
Modest Mussorgsky
"Pictures at an Exhibition"
The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Sir Simon Rattle
Philharmonie, Berlin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in D, KV 485
Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia

hour 2

Franz Schubert
Allegretto in C, D. 346 from "Fragments"
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes
John Playford
"Chestnut - Light of Love"
Lee Santana, cittern
Dresden Music Festival, Dresden, Germany
Sergei Prokofiev
Prelude in C, Op. 12, No. 7
Harpist Coline-Marie Orliac
USA International Harp Competition, Bloomington, Indiana
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes with the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Franz Welser-Most
Severance Hall, Cleveland
Tomaso Antonio Vitali
Chaconne in G Minor
Angele Dubeau and La Pieta
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia

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