"Don’t know why, there’s no sun up in the sky…" My favorite (instrumental) version of Stormy Weather is the slow groove found on Red Garland’s classic 1958 album All Kinds of Weather, featuring some of the best brushwork I’ve ever heard. This morning we’re going to pick up on the theme introduced by today’s Classics for Kids
– "Musical Meteorology", with musical snowflakes, thunderstorms, wind,
and…even some sunshine. All kinds of weather, starting at 8 today.
Musical Meteorology
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Playlist:
8:14 am
- Dance in the Sunlight
- Composer: Arnold Bax
- Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
- CD/Album: "The Banks of Green Willow"
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 64200
8:19 am
- The Trojans: Royal Hunt & Storm
- Composer: Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Conductor: David Zinman
- CD/Album: "La Marseillaise & Other Berlioz Favorites"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80164
8:31 am
- Four Seasons, Op. 8, RV 297: Winter (L'Inverno)
- Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
- Arranger: (choral transcription by Franck Krawczyk)
- Ensemble: Accentus Chamber Choir
- Soloists: Les Monts du Reuil
- Conductor: Laurence Equilby
- CD/Album: "Accentus - Transcriptions 2"
- Record co./Cat #: Naive 5048
8:40 am
- Der Schneeman ("The snowman"): Act One - incidental music from the ballet
- Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic
- Soloists: Peter Manning, violin
- Conductor: Matthias Bamert
- CD/Album: "Korngold: Fairy Tale Pictures, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9631
9:02 am
- The "Thunderer" March
- Composer: John Philip Sousa
- Ensemble: The Wallace Collection
- Conductor: John Wallace
- CD/Album: "Sousa: Great Marches & Incidental Music"
- Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5129
9:04 am
- Thunder & Lightning Polka
- Composer: Johann Strauss II
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: "Strauss Jr.: Waltzes; Josef Strauss / Reiner, Chicago Symphony"
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 5405
- Note: (aka: "Unter Donner und Blitz")
9:08 am
- The Seasons: (Summer) Ach, das Ungewitter naht!
- Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
- Soloists: Monteverdi Choir
- Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
- CD/Album: "Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 431818
- Note: (the "thunderstorm" chorus - "Hark the deep tremendous voice...")
9:13 am
- The "Sun" String Quartet #28 in Eb , Op. 20/#1 , HOB III/31
- Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: Angeles String Quartet
- CD/Album: "Haydn: The String Quartets"
- Record co./Cat #: Philips 464650
9:32 am
- La Mer
- Composer: Claude Debussy
- Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor: Giuseppi Sinopoli
- CD/Album: "Ravel: Bolero - Daphnic et Chloe / Debussy: La Mer"
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 427644