The Central VT Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. They join us for a live preview of their first week’s program, which includes music of Benjamin Britten, Jean Francaix and Camille Saint-Saens.
Playlist:
9:01 am
Beatrice & Benedict: Overture
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
CD/Album: Berlioz: 8 Overtures - Le Carnaval Romain, etc.
Record co./Cat #: London 452480
9:11 am
Waltz in c# , Op. 64/2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists:
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
CD/Album: Valentina Lisitsa
Record co./Cat #: Valentina Lisitsa 2010
9:14 am
Nocturne in Eb , Op. 9/2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists:
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
CD/Album: Valentina Lisitsa
Record co./Cat #: Valentina Lisitsa 2010
9:18 am
Waltz in b , Op. 69/2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists:
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
CD/Album: Valentina Lisitsa
Record co./Cat #: Valentina Lisitsa 2010
9:24 am
Symphony #3 "Rhenish" in Eb , Op. 97
Composer: Robert Schumann
Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
CD/Album: Schumann: Symphonie Nr. 3 - Manfred Overture
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 400062
10:01 am
Clarinet Sonata
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Soloists:
Karl Leister, clarinet ; James Levine, piano
CD/Album: Poulenc: 2 Sonaten-Trio-Sextett-Elegie
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 427639
10:17 am
Les Paladins: selections
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt
CD/Album: Rameau: Suite Les Paladins
Record co./Cat #: Philips 432968
11:01 am
Central VT Chamber Music Festival Live
Composer: Britten, Francaix & Saint-Saens
CD/Album: LIVE on VPR Classical
11:48 am
5 Songs
Composer: George Gershwin
Arranger: arr. Stanley Silverman
Ensemble: Lark Quartet
Soloists:
Maria Bachmann, violin ; Deborah Buck, violin ; Kathryn Lockwood, viola ; Astrid Schween, cello
CD/Album: Lark Quartet: Klap Ur Handz
Record co./Cat #: Endeavour 1018
12:05 pm
Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
CD/Album: Elgar Vaughan Williams
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 419191
12:11 pm
Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast" in C
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
CD/Album: Handel: Alexander's Feast
Record co./Cat #: Philips 422053
Note: Live recording, Stadthalle Gottingen, June 13 & 14, 1987 On period instruments