Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Frank Bridge
  Second movement from Two Intermezzi from "Threads"
  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Richard Hickox
  
• Paul Moravec
  "Ariel Fantasy"
  Violinist Maria Bachmann and pianist Jon Klibonoff
  Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
  
• William Bolcom and William Blake
  "My Pretty Rose Tree" and "The Lily" from "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
  The University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and combined choruses with conductor Leonard Slatkin and tenor Thomas Young
  Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  
• Charles Tomlinson Griffes
  "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan," Op. 8
  The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
  Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo
  
• Richard Strauss
  "Don Juan," Op. 20
  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Thierry Fischer
  Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, Binghamton, New York
  
• Erich Korngold
  "Scene in the Garden" from Suite from "Much Ado About Nothing" for Violin and Piano, Op. 11
  Violinist Yoon Kwon and pianist Anthony Newman
  Summerfest La Jolla, La Jolla, California
  

hour 2

• Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Shakespeare
  "The Cloud-Capp'd Towers"
  The Cambridge Singers with conductor John Rutter
  
• Traditional Welsh
  "My Sweetheart's Like Venus"
  The Cambridge Singers with conductor John Rutter
  
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
  The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Andre Previn
  
• Benjamin Britten and William Shakespeare
  "I Know a Bank" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
  Countertenor James Bowman with the City of London Sinfonia and conductor Richard Hickox
  
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  "Hamlet" Overture
  The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Hans Graf
  Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
  
• Ned Rorem and Gertrude Stein
  "I Am Rose"
  Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau
  
• Ned Rorem and J.D. McClatchy
  Excerpts from "Our Town"
  Singers from the Juilliard Opera Center and the Juilliard Orchestra with conductor Anne Manson
  Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City