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July 8, 2010
Mahler at the Opium Den
Our Mahler celebrations continue, one day after Gustav Mahler's 150th birthday. Barbara Haws, archivist of the New York Philharmonic, talks about Mahler's brief time as Music Director of the Philharmonic. (And tells a story about Mahler visiting an opium den in New York. He didn't inhale.) We'll hear a classic New York Philharmonic recording of the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Plus, Mahler the outdoorsman -- two of his orchestral movements inspired, in part, by flowers. And our series "Music That Matters" returns with a visit to an orchestra of inmates at a women's prison in Alaska.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances Nos. 10 and 12
The Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
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Ludwig van Beethoven
First movement from Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
The National German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor
Grand Studio, Hanover, Germany
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in A, Op. 20, No. 6
The Enso String Quartet
Grand Canyon Music Festival, Grand Canyon, Arizona
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Gustav Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
The New York Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt, conductor
Avery Fischer Hall, New York City
hour 2
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Franz von Blon
Blumengefluster (Whispering Flowers)
I Salonisti
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Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet
Musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall, New York City
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Silvius Leopold Weiss
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat for Lute
Luca Pianca, lute, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
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Gustav Mahler
Blumine and What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Music That Matters
Prison Orchestras, Part I
