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
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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
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Gaspar Sanz
"Jacaras" and "Canarios"
Baroque guitarist Rolf Lislevand
The BBC Proms, London, England
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Johann Kapsberger
Sinfonia decimasettima a 4 con due bassi
Accademia Bizantina
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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Ottorino Respighi
Nocturne
Pianist Roberto Plano
Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, Oregon
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
"The Lark Ascending"
Violinist Akiko Suwanai with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Susanna Malkki
The BBC Proms, London, England
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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
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Russian Dance
Trio Voronezh
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Dmitri Shostakovich
First Movement from Symphony No. 7 in C ("Leningrad")
The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
Parliament Building, Tskhinvali, South Ossetia
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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
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Alessandro Marcello
Second movement from Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974
Pianist Louis Lortie
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto