July 8, 2009

Music that began with 'NO'

Music that began with the word "no." An oboe-playing American GI in 1945 asked Richard Strauss if he'd ever consider writing an oboe concerto. Strauss gave that one word answer...but a few months later, he composed his Oboe Concerto in D Major. We'll hear a concert performance from Stockholm; Daniel Harding conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony, with oboe soloist Francois Leleux.

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hour 1

Rimsky-Korsakov
Nocturne
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Shostakovich (arr. Jose Riojas)
Folk Dances (1942)
New Century Saxophone Quartet: Michael Stephenson, soprano; Chris Hemingway, alto; Stephen Pollock, tenor; Connie Fargo, baritone
Middle Keys Concert Association, Marathon, FL
Shostakovich (arr. Vadim Borisovsky)
Prelude No. 10 in C# minor, Prelude No. 15 in Db Major
Lawrence Power, viola; Julien Quentin, piano
Verbier Church, Vevey, Switzerland
Piano Puzzler
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D
Francois Leleux, oboe; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Harding, conductor
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden

hour 2

Scriabin
Enigme, No. 2 from Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 52
Arcadi Volodos, piano
Live at Carnegie Hall
Rachmaninoff
Etude-tableau in d minor, Op. 39, No. 8
Arcadi Volodos, piano
Live at Carnegie Hall
Mahler
Liebst du um Schonheit (Encore)
Reynaldo Hahn
A Chloris (Encore)
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano
Live Recording from Carnegie Hall
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110
Bela Bartok
3 Hungarian Folksongs from the Csik District
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
Live Recording from Carnegie Hall
Richard Wagner
Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Carnegie Hall Project Orchestra

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