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April 25, 2008

Happy birthday, Shakespeare

In honor of the (approximate) anniversary of the birth of the Bard, violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Rohan de Silva team up for music that Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote for a production of "Much Ado About Nothing." And Claus Peter Flor leads the Dallas Symphony in music from Prokofiev's ballet, "Romeo and Juliet," in Dallas.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Sir William Walton
    "Interlude: At the Boar's Head" from "Henry V"
    The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with conductor Neville Marriner
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    "Fur Elise"
    Pianist Valentina Lisitsa
    Sanibel Music Festival, Sanibel, Florida
  • Arvo Part
    "Fur Alina"
    Pianist Anastasia Markina
    Katzin Concert Hall, Tempe, Arizona
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    "Scene in the Garden" from "Much Ado About Nothing" Suite, Op. 11
    Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Rohan De Silva
    Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Excerpts from the ballet, "Romeo and Juliet"
    The Dallas Symphony Orchestra with conductor Claus Peter Flor
    The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas

hour 2

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky
    Musical Sketches to "Romeo and Juliet"
    The Moscow Symphony Orchestra with conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
  • Francis Poulenc
    Excerpt from the first movement of the Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
    The Wosner Shifrin Turkovic Trio
    Kaul Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
  • Leonid Bashmakov
    "Paasiaissunnuntain Iikossi" and "Paasiaisen Eksapostilaari"
    Cappella Romana with conductor Rev. Ivan Moody
    St. Mary's Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Concerto No. 10 in C, Op. 6
    The Holland Baroque Society with conductor Matthew Halls
    Jacobikerk, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • A musical conversation with Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    "Russian Easter Festival Overture"
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
    The Royal Albert Hall, London, England
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