Premonitions of Summer…

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We’ll enjoy this warm weather with Summer Impressions from Josef Suk,
Bizet’s saucy Carmen Suite #1, and the Roses from the South Waltz by
Johann Strauss II.

Playlist:
7:02 am
  • Summer Impressions , Op. 22b
  • Composer: Josef Suk
  • Soloists: Margaret Fingerhut, piano
  • CD/Album: Suk: Piano Works
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9026
7:16 am
  • Sonata #4 in C , Op. 3/4
  • Composer: Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville
  • Ensemble: Musicians of the Louvre
  • Conductor: Marc Minkowski
  • CD/Album: Mondonville: 6 Sonates Op. 3
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 474550
7:27 am
  • Carmen: Suite #1
  • Composer: Georges Bizet
  • Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Charles Dutoit
  • CD/Album: Bizet: L'Arlesienne & Carmen Suites
  • Record co./Cat #: London 417839
7:41 am
  • Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" in F , Op. 66
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soloists: Emanuel Ax, piano ; Yo Yo Ma, cello
  • CD/Album: Beethoven: The Sonatas for Cello & Piano
  • Record co./Cat #: Sony 42446
  • Note: (from Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute"; Act I - duet w/Pamina & Papageno: "In men who feel love...")
7:53 am
  • Polonaise
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Antal Dorati
  • CD/Album: Dvorak: Slavonic Dances-Czech Suite
  • Record co./Cat #: London 460293
8:05 am
  • Piccolo Concerto in C , RV 444
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Ensemble: Camerata Koln
  • Soloists: Michael Schneider, recorder
  • CD/Album: Vivaldi-Marcello-Quantz-Bach-Fasch
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77172
  • Note: (arr. for sopranino recorder)
8:17 am
  • The Mountain King: Dance of the Shepherdess
  • Composer: Hugo Alfven
  • Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Mariss Jansons
  • CD/Album: World Encores
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 56576
8:21 am
  • Novelette #2 in D , Op. 21/2
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Soloists: Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
  • CD/Album: Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 2
  • Record co./Cat #: London 421010
8:28 am
  • Oberon: Overture
  • Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
  • Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • CD/Album: Weber: Overtures
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9066
8:39 am
  • String Quartet #1: Scherzo & Finale in D , Op. 11
  • Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Ensemble: The Ying Quartet
  • CD/Album: Tchaikovsky: String Quartets and Sextet
  • Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80685
8:51 am
  • Roses from the South Waltz (German: Rosen aus dem Suden)
  • Composer: Johann Strauss II
  • Ensemble: Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
  • Conductor: Willi Boskovsky
  • CD/Album: J. Strauss II: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 47052

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