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Weekend of August 2, 2008

Pictures from 15 perspectives

By Leonard Slatkin's count, there are over 80 different orchestrations of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." He tapped into 15 of them to create a unique version of the work. He leads the Nashville Symphony in a performance of it at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Modest Mussorgsky
    Scherzo in C-sharp Minor
    Pianist Brigitte Engerer
  • Naftule Brandwein
    "Terkishe Yale V'yove Tantz" and "Der Heyser Bulgar"
    Clarinetist Alan Kay and Trio Solisti
  • Modest Mussorgsky
    "Pictures at an Exhibition"
    The Nashville Symphony with conductor Leonard Slatkin
    Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville
  • Reynaldo Hahn
    "Anthony van Dyck" and "Antoine Watteau" from "Four Portraits of Painters after Poems by Marcel Proust"
    Pianist Jeffrey Swann
    International Keyboard Institute and Festival, New York City

hour 2

  • Peter Tchaikovsky
    "Old French Melody" and "Song of the Lark" from "Children's Album," Op. 39
    Pianist Michael Ponti
  • Traditional Irish
    "The Lark in the Clear Air"
    Violinist Geraldine O'Grady and pianist Margaret O'Sullivan
  • Grigoras Dinicu
    "The Lark"
    Flutist Michael Martin Kofler and the Sebastian String Quartet
    Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Joseph Haydn
    String Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5 ("The Lark")
    The Talich Quartet
    The Frick Collection, New York City
  • Bela Bartok
    Second movement from Concerto for Orchestra
    The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela with conductor Gustavo Dudamel
    Symphony Hall, Boston
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, K. 191
    Bassoonist Kenneth Munday with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joseph Swensen
    Royce Hall, Westwood, California
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