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August 30, 2010
"Nature's mystery, and life's melancholy"
April 21, 1915, Jean Sibelius wrote in his diary: "This morning I saw 16 swans. One of my greatest experiences! ...They circled over me, then disappeared in the solar haze like a gleaming silver ribbon...nature's mystery, and life's melancholy." That flight of swans inspired the expansive theme that returns over and over in the final section of the Symphony No. 5 by Sibelius. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard talks about the "sheer ecstasy" Sibelius felt that morning, and Dausgaard leads the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius' Symphony No. 5, from a concert this month at the BBC Proms in London.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Robert Starer
Second movement from String Quartet No. 2
The Miami String Quartet
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Charles Rochester Young
Song of the Lark for Flute and Harp
Aralee Dorough, flute, Paula Page, harp
International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Round Top, Texas
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Franz Schubert
Ballet Music No. 2 from Rosamunde, D. 797
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, conductor
Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
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Claudio Monteverdi
Lamento Della Ninfa
Emma Tring, soprano, I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, director
The BBC Proms, London, England
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto Madrigalesco in D Minor, RV 129
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, director
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76, No. 3, Hob. III:77 (The Emperor)
The Miami String Quartet
San Pablo Catholic Church, Marathon, Florida
hour 2
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Gabriel Faure
Romance in A, Op. 69
Pieter Wispelwey, cello, Paolo Giacometti, piano
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.5 in E-flat, Op. 83
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
The BBC Proms, London England
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Michael Praetorius
Pavane d'Espaigne
Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bauml, director
Rougemont Church, Rougemont, Switzerland
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Luys Milan
Pavane and Gaillard
Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bauml, director
Rougemont Church, Rougemont, Switzerland
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Gabriel Faure
Pavane, Op. 50
The Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Rendsburg, Germany
