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December 7, 2012
Transcendental Music
It's long been known that music has the ability to help transport us out of our daily lives. It's one of the reasons so many of us listen to it. In today's show, we have a whole hour of music about other realms of being, and higher planes of existence. "Visions of Another World," by Karim Al-Zand, "Music of the Spheres," by Josef Strauss, and a Transcendental Etude by Franz Liszt. Plus an ethereal Norwegian vision of heaven from the women of Trio Mediaeval (pictured).
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
First movement from Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Trumpet Concerto in D
David Washburn, trumpet, and friends
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in B Minor, K. 27
Sara Daneshpour, piano
Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul
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Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G
The Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor, the Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland
hour 2
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Gustav Holst
Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from the Planets
The CSR Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper, conductor
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Josef Strauss
Music of the Spheres
The Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude No. 11, S. 139 (Evening Harmonies)
Roberto Plano, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul
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Karim Al-Zand
Visions from Another World
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston
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Traditional (Arranged by Linn Andrea Fuglseth)
I Know of a Heavenly Stronghold
Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130
The Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
