One of the most stunning moments from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) is the aria, O Let Me Weep in the final act. We’ll hear that this morning, along with other summery music by Edward Elgar and Josef Suk.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Playlist:
8:08 am
- Wand of Youth Suite #1: Sun Dance
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra
- Conductor: Bryden Thomson
- CD/Album: "Elgar: The Wand of Youth and Nursery Suites"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8318
8:12 am
- Summer Impressions , Op. 22b
- Composer: Josef Suk
- Soloists: Margaret Fingerhut, piano
- CD/Album: "Suk: Piano Works"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9026
8:26 am
- Carnival of the Animals
- Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
- Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
- Soloists:
- Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, conductor & excellent narrator
- CD/Album: "Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf - Bernstein"
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 37765
9:02 am
- Sonata #2
- Composer: Georg Phillip Telemann
- Ensemble: Trio Sonnerie
- Soloists: Wilbert Hazelzet, flute
- CD/Album: "Telemann: Paris Quartets"
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 45045
9:14 am
- Summer Idyll
- Composer: Cecil Burleigh
- Soloists: Andres Cardenes, violin ; Luz Manriquez, piano
- CD/Album: "Made In The U.S.A."
- Record co./Cat #: Ocean 103
9:18 am
- The Fairy Queen: O Let Me Weep
- Composer: Henry Purcell
- Ensemble: London Classical Players
- Soloists: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: Roger Norrington
- CD/Album: "Purcell: The Fairy Queen"
- Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 61955
- Note: (from the complete opera recording)
9:24 am
- Symphony #3 "Pastoral"
- Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Bryden Thomson
- CD/Album: "Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8594