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June 21, 2011
Sweeping away the Dust
They're two works that were almost lost forever. Georges Bizet's Symphony in C sat on a shelf at the Paris Conservatory library for 60 years, a long-forgotten homework assignment by the 17-year-old composer. A researcher discovered it in 1933, dusted it off and got it published. And Anton Webern's lovely "In the Summer Breeze" spent some time in a hole in the ground, hidden by Webern himself as Russian troops marched into Vienna in 1945. We'll hear both, from concerts in Switzerland and New York.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Georges Bizet
Habanera, from Carmen
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, conductor
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Mily Balakirev
Islamey, Oriental Fantasy
Martina Filjak, piano
Parish Church, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Spain
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Gabriel Faure
Fourth movement from Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13
Ani Kavafian, violin, Lindsay Garritson, piano
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut
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Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor
Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
hour 2
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Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces No. 2 (Summer Evening) and No. 7 (Remembrances), Op. 71
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
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Arthur Honegger
Pastorale d'ete, H. 31 (Summer Pastorale)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
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William Grant Still
Summerland
Alexa Still, flute, Susan DeWitt Smith, piano
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Aaron Copland
Midsummer Nocturne
Ramon Salvatore, piano
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Sergei Prokofiev
Excerpts from a Summer's Day, Op. 65
The Swiss-Italian Orchestra, Juraj Valcuha, conductor
Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland
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Anton Webern
Im Sommerwind (In the Summer Breeze)
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
