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February 11, 2013
Musical Souvenirs
So you took that great trip to Europe or to Hawaii or to the ski slopes. And now you're left with a faded T-shirt or a shake-up snow globe that doesn't even begin to capture the sights and the sounds of your dream vacation. Photos can help you remember what everything looked like. But what about the sounds you heard, the foreign languages, the street noises, the music? We'll hear from two composers who solved that problem. Today's show is all about musical souvenirs: Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien," written during a trip to Rome, and Gershwin's "An American in Paris," inspired by his trip to the City of Light.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo from Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 (Scottish)
The Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
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Michael Gandolfi
The Jumping Bridge, from the Garden of Cosmic Speculation
The Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Melody, from Souvenir of a Beloved Place
Midori, violin, Robert McDonald, piano
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George Gershwin
An American in Paris
The Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
hour 2
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Serenade, Op. 37
Steven Isserlis, cello, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
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Jacques Hotteterre
Excerpts from Premiere Suite pour Deux Dessus, Op. 4
Elektra Papasimaki and Amalia Kountouri, recorders
GRERT Radio, Athens, Greece
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Francois le Cocq
Folies d'Espagne
Alexandros Kalkos, baroque guitar, Vassilis Tiggiridis, baroque lute
GRERT Radio, Athens, Greece
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Excerpts from Scheherazade, Op. 35
The North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Wagner, violin, Constantinos Carydis, conductor
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
