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April 14, 2011
Larger-than-life Mahler from New York
Gustav Mahler had a deep love and appreciation for the natural world. He also had a pretty good opinion of himself. When a friend came to visit him at his summer home in the Austrian countryside, the friend stopped to admire the spectacular scenery. Mahler waved his hand impatiently. "Don't bother looking at the view," he said. "I've already composed it." We'll go to a concert by the New York Philharmonic to hear some of Mahler's larger-than-life music, part of his Third Symphony.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Leonard Bernstein
Times Square 1944, from On the Town
The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
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George Frideric Handel
Fugue in D Minor
The Flanders Recorder Quartet
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
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Frederic Chopin
Mazurka No. 6 in A Minor, Op. 7, No. 2, Mazurka No. 7 in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 3, and Mazurka in B-Flat, Op. 17, No. 1
Evgeny Kissin, piano
Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
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Gustav Mahler
First movement from Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
hour 2
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Richard Strauss
The Entrance and Dance of the Tailors, from the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in C for Flute and Continuo, BWV 1033
Emmanuel Pahud, flute, Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, Jonathan Manson, cello
Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Emmanuel Pahud, flute, Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, Jonathan Manson, cello
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
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Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
Boston Brass
Virginia Arts Festival, Newport News, Virginia
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Robert Schumann
Traumerei (Dreaming), from Scenes from Childhood
Ian Watt, guitar
Parkening International Guitar Competition, Malibu, California
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Excerpts from the Creatures of Prometheus
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
