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May 18, 2010
Transcendental Music
It's long been known that music has the ability to help transport us out of our daily lives. It's one of the reasons so many of us listen to it. In today's show, we have a whole hour of music about other realms of being, and higher planes of existence. "Visions of Another World," by Karim Al-Zand, "Music of the Spheres," by Josef Strauss, and a Transcendental Etude by Franz Liszt. Plus an ethereal Norwegian vision of heaven from the women of Trio Mediaeval.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Vittorio Monti
"Csardas"
Violinist Maxim Vengerov with Virtuosi and pianist Vag Papian
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Pianist Stephen Hough with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Litton
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Stephen Reynolds
"Chanson d'Automne" from "Two Poems in Homage to Faure"
Pianist Stephen Hough
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Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo and Finale from Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Pianist Nicholas Angelich, violinist Renaud Capucon, and cellist Gautier Capucon
Lugano Festival, Lugano, Switzerland
hour 2
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Gustav Holst
"Mercury, the Winged Messenger" from "The Planets"
The CSR Symphony Orchestra with conductor Adrian Leaper
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Josef Strauss
"Music of the Spheres"
The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Daniel Barenboim
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude No. 11, S. 139 ("Evening Harmonies")
Pianist Roberto Plano
The Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul
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Karim Al-Zand
"Visions from Another World"
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra with conductor JoAnn Falletta
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston
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Traditional (Arranged by Linn Andrea Fuglseth)
"I Know of a Heavenly Stronghold"
Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130
The Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
