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September 9, 2008

Music from south Ossetia

Days after a cease fire was negotiated between Georgia and Russia, conductor Valery Gergiev flew to South Ossetia to lead the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in a concert in front of Tskhinvali's bomb-damaged parliament building. We'll go there to hear him conduct music from Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony and Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony.

Today's Playlist



hour 1

  • Antonin Dvorak
    Second movement from Quintet in G for Strings, Op. 77
    The Emerson String Quartet with bassist Edgar Meyer
    Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul
  • Gaspar Sanz
    "Jacaras" and "Canarios"
    Baroque guitarist Rolf Lislevand
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • Johann Kapsberger
    Sinfonia decimasettima a 4 con due bassi
    Accademia Bizantina
    Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
  • Ottorino Respighi
    Nocturne
    Pianist Roberto Plano
    Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, Oregon
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    "The Lark Ascending"
    Violinist Akiko Suwanai with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Susanna Malkki
    The BBC Proms, London, England
  • Antonin Dvorak
    Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello and Harmonium, Op. 47
    Todd Phillips and Catherine Cho, violins; David Requiro, cello; and Katherine Collier, harmonium
    Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

hour 2

  • Peter Tchaikovsky
    Russian Dance
    Trio Voronezh
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    First Movement from Symphony No. 7 in C ("Leningrad")
    The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
    Parliament Building, Tskhinvali, South Ossetia
  • Peter Tchaikovsky
    Third and fourth movements from Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Pathetique")
    The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
    Parliament Building, Tskhinvali, South Ossetia
  • Alessandro Marcello
    Second movement from Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974
    Pianist Louis Lortie
    Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
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