September 18, 2012
Mozart's Weekend Masterpiece
Efficiency experts would have loved Mozart. Some composers spend years, even decades, writing a single symphony. But in 1783, Mozart proved that it's possible to get the job done in just four days. We'll hear Mozart's weekend masterpiece, his Linz Symphony, from a concert at the Music Academy of the West in California. The always efficient Nicholas McGegan conducts.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
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Darius Milhaud
Two movements from La Cheminee du Roi Rene, Op. 205
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet
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Robert Jones
I Come, Sweet Birds
Piffaro
Town Hall, Seattle
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Yossele Rosenblatt
T'Filas Tal (Prayer for Dew)
Itzhak Perlman, violin, Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, cantor
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Gabriel Faure
Une Chatelaine en sa Tour (A Lady in her Tower), Op. 110
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson, South Carolina
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Gabriel Faure
Tendresse, from Dolly Suite Op. 56
Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper, piano
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Massachusetts
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Gabriel Faure
Elegy for Cello and Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, cello, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Royce Hall, Los Angeles
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Darius Milhaud
La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World), Op. 81
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Donato Cabrera, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
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Percy Grainger
English Morris Dance (Shepherd's Hey)
The United States Marine Band, Maj. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall, Alexandria, Virginia
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Turtle Dove
The Choir of Clare College, Tim Brown, director
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Paul
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 (Linz)
The Academy Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California
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Jacques Ibert
Homage to Mozart
The Academy Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California
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Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Church of St. John the Divine, Houston