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NEW! ♥ HALL OF FAME #192 RECORDED NOVEMBER 2, 1988 |
1:00 pm Piotr Tchaikovsky Russia (1840 - 1893) Symphony No. 4 in f, Op. 36 (1877-78) Rotterdam Phil Orch / Valery Gergiev Radio Netherlands Worldwide RPHO 2008-1 BUY CD |
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1:43 pm Antonio Vivaldi Italy (1678 - 1741) Concerto for 4 Violins, Strings and Continuo in b, Op. 3/10 (RV 580) Israel Phil Orch / Zubin Mehta Maxim Vengerov, Shlomo Mintz, Gil Shaham, Menahem Breuer, v's; Israel Kastoriano, continuo RCA 09026-68768-2 BUY CD |
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1:55 pm Josef Strauss Austria (1827 - 1870) Velocipede (polka) for Orchestra, Op. 259 Vienna Phil Orch / Lorin Maazel DG 410 516-2 BUY CD |
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EDWARD BAIRSTOW BORN THIS DAY IN 1874 |
2:00 pm Edward Bairstow Great Britain (1874 - 1946) Music, When Soft Voices Die [text Percy Bysshe Shelley] King's Singers EMI 49765 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #100 GINA BACHAUER (63) DIED THIS DAY IN 1976 |
2:03 pm Frederic Chopin Poland (1810 - 1849) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in f, Op. 21 (1829-30) London Sym Orch / Antal Dorati Gina Bachauer, p Mercury 434 374-2 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #166 CLAUDE DEBUSSY BORN THIS DAY IN 1862 |
2:36 pm Claude Debussy France (1862 - 1918) Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune for Orchestra [after Mallarme] (1892-94) Orch National de Lyon / Jun Maerkl Naxos 8.570759 BUY CD |
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2:47 pm Pablo de Sarasate Spain (1844 - 1908) Fantaisie de concert sur Martha for Violin and Piano, Op. 19 Tianwa Yang, v; Markus Hadulla, p Naxos 8.570192 BUY CD |
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3:00 pm Johann Baptist Vanhal Czech Republic (1739 - 1813) Quartet for Flute and Strings in B-flat, Op. 7/2 Janaki String Trio Uwe Grodd, fl Naxos 8.570234 BUY CD |
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3:21 pm Jean Francaix France (1912 - 1997) Danse des trois Arlequins [Dance of the Three Harlequins] for Piano Nicole Narboni, p Narboni Recordings 1 BUY CD |
| GRAMMY® 2008 NOMINEE: BEST INSTRUMENTAL PERF WITH AN ORCHESTRA |
3:24 pm Miklos Rozsa Hungary (1907 - 1995) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 24 (1956) Russian Phil Orch / Dmitry Yablonsky Anastasia Khitruk, v Naxos 8.570350 BUY CD |
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3:57 pm Tomas Luis de Victoria Spain (1548 - 1611) Sanctus and Hosanna Duke University Cho / Rodney Wynkoop Duke University Chorale BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #018 |
4:00 pm Piotr Tchaikovsky Russia (1840 - 1893) Overture 1812 for Orchestra in E-flat, Op. 49 (1880) Boston Pops Orch / Keith Lockhart RCA 09026-63516-2 BUY CD |
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4:17 pm (Franz) Joseph Haydn Austria (1732 - 1809) Symphony No. 100 in G, Military (1793-94) Columbia Sym Orch / Bruno Walter Sony Classical 64485 BUY CD |
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4:44 pm Gustav Holst Great Britain (1874 - 1934) Hammersmith (Prelude & Scherzo) for Military Band (1930) or Orchestra, Op. 52 (1931) United States Marine Band / Frederick Fennell United States Marine Band 1 BUY CD | |
♥ HALL OF FAME #220 RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (85) DIED 50 YEARS AGO TOMORROW |
1:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Symphony No. 2, A London Symphony (1912-13; rev. 1920) London Phil Orch / Adrian Boult EMI 47213 BUY CD |
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1:45 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra in f (1954) London Sym Orch / Paul Freeman Eugene Dowling, tu Pro Arte CDD 595 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #076 |
2:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) English Folk Song Suite for Military Band (1923) United States Marine Band / Frederick Fennell United States Marine Band 15 BUY CD |
| GRAMMY® 1995 NOMINEE: BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE |
2:13 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Songs of Travel [song cycle] for Baritone and Piano [text Stevenson] (1901-04) Bryn Terfel, b-br; Malcolm Martineau, p DG 445 946-2 BUY CD |
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2:40 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) In the Fen Country (symphonic impression) for Orchestra (1904) New Philharmonia Orch / Adrian Boult EMI 47218 BUY CD |
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2:54 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Rhosymedre (prelude) Acad of St. Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner Angel 47842 BUY CD |
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3:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) The Invaders (1941): 49th Parallel National Phil Orch / Bernard Herrmann London 448 954-2 BUY CD |
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3:05 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in e for Orchestra (1905-06) Acad of St. Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner Philips 442 427-2 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #163 |
3:17 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) The Wasps (incidental music) for Orchestra [after Aristophanes] (1909) London Phil Orch / Adrian Boult EMI 47216 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #254 |
3:44 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Serenade to Music for 4 Sopranos, 4 Altos, 4 Tenors, 4 Basses (or Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass & Chorus) & Orchestra [after Shakespeare] (1938) New York Phil / Leonard Bernstein Adele Addison, Lucine Amara & Eileen Farrell, s's; Lili Chookasian & Jennie Tourel, ms's Sony Classical 61874 BUY CD |
♥ HALL OF FAME #001 |
4:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) The Lark Ascending (romance) for Violin and Orchestra (1914; rev. 1920) Philharmonia Orch / Andrew Litton Anne Akiko Meyers, v RCA 09026-61700-2 BUY CD |
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4:16 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Come Down, O Love Divine Cho of King's College, Cambridge; Scioned Williams, h / Stephen Cleobury EMI 57026 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #003 |
4:21 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Orchestra (1910; rev. 1919) Atlanta Sym Orch / Robert Spano Telarc 80676 BUY CD |
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4:38 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Variations for Brass Band (1957) Eastman Wind Ens / Donald Hunsberger CBS MK 44916 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #105 |
4:53 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934) Philadelphia Orch / Eugene Ormandy CBS Odyssey MBK 38919 BUY CD |
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1:00 pm Franz Schubert Austria (1797 - 1828) Quartet for Strings (No. 14) in d, D. 810, Death and the Maiden (1824) (arr. Gustav Mahler) Royal Phil Orch / Charles Rosenkrans Telarc 80610 BUY CD |
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| JOSQUIN DES PREZ (71) DIED THIS DAY IN 1521 |
1:43 pm Josquin Des Prez France (1450 - 1521) Pater Noster & Ave Maria King's Singers RCA 09026-61814-2 BUY CD |
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1:51 pm Gabriel Faure France (1845 - 1924) Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 28 Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p CC CC03 BUY CD |
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RAYBURN WRIGHT BORN THIS DAY IN 1922 |
2:00 pm Rayburn Wright United States (1922 - 1990) Shaker Suite Canadian Brass Philips 434 276-2 BUY CD |
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2:11 pm Aaron Copland United States (1900 - 1990) Variations on A Shaker Melody London Sym Orch / Aaron Copland CBS MLK 45658 BUY CD |
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| ON THIS DAY IN 1937: COPLAND'S "EL SALON MEXICO" IS PREMIERED IN MEXICO |
2:15 pm Aaron Copland United States (1900 - 1990) El salon Mexico for Orchestra (1936) New York Phil / Leonard Bernstein CBS MLK 39443 BUY CD |
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2:27 pm (Franz) Joseph Haydn Austria (1732 - 1809) Symphony No. 42 in D (1771) English Concert / Trevor Pinnock Archiv Produktion 429 756-2 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #011 GRAMMY® 1987 NOMINEE: BEST CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE, INS. SOLOIST |
2:52 pm Johann Pachelbel Germany (1653 - 1706) Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Continuo in D English Ch Orch / Raymond Leppard Wynton Marsalis, tr CBS MK 44726 BUY CD |
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3:00 pm Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Czech Republic (1814 - 1865) Le roi des aulnes (grand caprice) for solo Violin after Schubert D. 328 (Erlkoenig) Shannon Lee, v; Pamela Mia Paul, p Telarc 80695 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #035 HERBERT MENGES BORN THIS DAY IN 1902 |
3:06 pm Piotr Tchaikovsky Russia (1840 - 1893) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in b-flat, Op. 23 (1874-75) London Sym Orch / Herbert Menges Byron Janis, p Philips 456 850-2 BUY CD |
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♥ HALL OF FAME #268 ANN MURRAY TURNS 59 TODAY |
3:39 pm Ludwig van Beethoven Germany (1770 - 1827) Missa Solemnis for Vocal Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus in D, Op. 123 (1819-23): Kyrie London Sym Orch / Georg Solti Renee Fleming, s; Ann Murray, a; Vinson Cole, t; Bryn Terfel, b-br; London Voices Sony Classical 66301 BUY CD |
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3:46 pm Giacomo Puccini Italy (1858 - 1924) Fantasia on La Boheme Cologne Salon Orch RCA 09478-69295-2 BUY CD |
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STUDENT OF HENRY COWELL |
4:00 pm George Gershwin United States (1898 - 1937) An American in Paris (tone poem) for Orchestra (1928) Cincinnati Pops Orch / Erich Kunzel Telarc 80542 BUY CD |
| ON THIS DAY IN 1827: ENGLISH POET WILLIAM BLAKE DIES |
4:19 pm Henry Cowell United States (1897 - 1965) The Little Black Boy [text William Blake] (1952) Mary Ann Hart, ms; Jeanne Golan, p Albany Records TROY 240 BUY CD |
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4:23 pm John Tavener Great Britain (1944 - ) The Lamb for Chorus [text William Blake] (1982) Westminster Abbey Cho / Martin Neary Sony Classical 66613 BUY CD |
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4:28 pm Ludwig van Beethoven Germany (1770 - 1827) Sonata for Piano No. 16 in G, Op. 31/1 (1802) Garrick Ohlsson, p Bridge 9262 BUY CD |
| ERIC COATES BORN THIS DAY IN 1886 |
4:53 pm Eric Coates Great Britain (1886 - 1957) The Three Elizabeths (suite) for Orchestra (1944): Youthful Britain London Pops Orch / Frederick Fennell Mercury 434 330-2 BUY CD |
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1:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams Great Britain (1872 - 1958) Symphony No. 7 for Soprano, Orchestra and Chorus, Sinfonia antartica (1949-52) London Phil Orch / Adrian Boult Norma Burrowes, s; London Phil Cho/John Alldis EMI 47216 BUY CD |
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1:43 pm Piotr Tchaikovsky Russia (1840 - 1893) The Snow Maiden (selections) St. Petersburg Phil Acad Sym Orch / Alexander Dmitriev Sony Classical 46680 BUY CD |
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1:55 pm Claude Debussy France (1862 - 1918) Children's Corner Suite for Piano (1906-08; orch. Andre Caplet, 1910): The Snow is Dancing Orch National de Lyon / Jun Maerkl Naxos 8.570759 BUY CD |
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2:00 pm Louis Couperin France (1626 - 1661) Pavane for Harpsichord in f-sharp Rafael Puyana, hc Mercury 434 364-2 BUY CD |
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| HANS VONK (62) DIED THIS DAY IN 2004 |
2:09 pm Johannes Brahms Germany (1833 - 1897) Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in a, Op. 102, Double Concerto (1887) Royal Concertgebouw Orch / Hans Vonk Herman Krebbers, v; Tibor de Machula, vc Radio Netherlands Worldwide RCO 06004 BUY CD |
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2:44 pm Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austria (1756 - 1791) Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C, K. 315/285a (1779-80) London Sym Orch / Raymond Leppard Ransom Wilson, fl EMI 49099 BUY CD |
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2:51 pm Francois Couperin France (1668 - 1733) La Superbe Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempe Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472-77315-2 BUY CD |
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3:00 pm (Louis Joseph) Ferdinand Herold France (1791 - 1833) Zampa: Overture Detroit Sym Orch / Paul Paray Mercury 432 014-2 BUY CD |
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3:09 pm Vincent d' Indy France (1851 - 1931) Symphony on a French Mountain Air for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 25 (1886) Montreal Sym Orch / Charles Dutoit Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p London 430 278-2 BUY CD |
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3:37 pm Johann Sebastian Bach Germany (1685 - 1750) French Suite for Harpsichord No. 6 in E, BWV 817 (arr. Salzedo) Salzedo Harp Duo Azica 71226 BUY CD |
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3:52 pm Johann Strauss (II) Austria (1825 - 1899) Quadrille sur des Airs Francais [Quadrille on French Airs] for Orchestra, Op. 290 CSSR State Phil Orch / Oliver Dohnanyi Marco Polo 8.223205 BUY CD |
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RECORDED DECEMBER 22, 1947 |
4:00 pm Ottokar Novacek Hungary (1866 - 1900) Perpetuum mobile for Violin and Piano, Op. 5/4 Isaac Stern, v; Alexander Zakin, p Sony Classical 64536 BUY CD |
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4:04 pm Leroy Anderson United States (1908 - 1975) Plink, Plank, Plunk! for Orchestra (1951) Ens Vivant Spy Records SRCD-1001 BUY CD |
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| ON THIS DAY IN 1862: DRAMATIST MAURICE MAERTERLINCK (PELLEAS) IS BORN |
4:08 pm Jean Sibelius Finland (1865 - 1957) Pelleas and Melisande (incidental music), Op. 46 (1905) Israel Phil Orch / Zubin Mehta Sony Classical 45870 BUY CD |
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4:28 pm Gabriel Faure France (1845 - 1924) Pelleas et Melisande (suite) for Orchestra, Op. 80 (1898) Israel Phil Orch / Zubin Mehta Sony Classical 45870 BUY CD |
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| BORIS PERGAMENSCHIKOW BORN THIS DAY IN 1948 |
4:44 pm Leos Janacek Czech Republic (1854 - 1928) Fairy Tale [Pohadka] for Cello and Piano (1910; rev. 1923) Boris Pergamenschikow, vc; Andras Schiff, p London 440 312-2 BUY CD |
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4:56 pm Franz Schreker Germany (1878 - 1934) In alten Tagen [In days of old], Op. 3/1 Wolfgang Holzmair, br; Russell Ryan, p Bridge 9259 BUY CD |
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