Wanderers, farewells, and sightseeing; people are always on the go. This week, Bill calls up, “A Little Traveling Music, Please” from the pens of Handel, Smetana, Duke Ellington, and more. Reflections from such travels infuse themselves into their works, as we will discover throughout the week. We will hear selections from Beethoven’s Les Adieux, Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin, and Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.
Little Traveling Music, Please
Playlist
Episode 1
Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Masur
Berlin Classics 0091572
11:02
Jacques Offenbach: Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman
Brussels National Opera Orchestra & Chorus/Cambreling; Norman, Murray, soloists
EMI 49641
4:18
Frederic Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Arabesque 6686
8:38
Gian Carlo Menotti: Barcarolle fr. Sebastian
Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy
CBS 45660
3:40
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
London Symphony Orchestra/Previn
EMI 66943
18:01
Peter Schickele: A Little Moseying Music
The Chestnut Brass Company
Newport 85638
2:28
Episode 2
Aaron Copland: “The Boatman’s Song” fr. Old American Songs
Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Copland; Warfield, baritone
CBS 42430
3:12
Bedrich Smetana: Die Moldau from Má Vlast
Czech Philharmonic/Neumann
Supraphon 11 0711-2
12:32
Richard Wagner: Dawn & Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Reiner
RCA 63301-2
13:11
Jacques Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call)
National Orchestra l’ORTF/Martinon
EMI 64276
15:23
Frede Grofe: New Orleans from Mississippi Suite
New York Philharmonic/Kostelanetz
CBS 37759
4:05
Episode 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat, No. 26 Op. 81a,Les Adieux
Richard Goode, piano
Nonesuch 79328
15:01, 2:10
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde No. 6, “Der Abschied”
New York Philharmonic/Walter; Mildred Miller, mezzo-soprano
Sony 64455
29:00
Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness
O’Riley, piano
CPI 3294112
3:29
Episode 4
Franz Schubert: “Das Wandern” from Die Schöne Mullerin
Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Moore, piano
EMI 75922
2:17
Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
English Chamber Orchestra/Tate; Thomas Allen, baritone
EMI 49943
17:02
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45, Farewell (excerpt)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Brown
Hänssler 98189
7:12
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutti (excerpt)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus/Böhm; Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Kraus, Taddei, Berry.
EMI 69330
2:00
Franz Liszt: Au Lac de Wallenstadt fr. Année de Pèlerinage
Andre Watts, piano
EMI 64599
3:32
Franz Liszt: Les Jeux d’eaux á la Villa d’Este fr. Annee de Pelerinage
Igor Kocsis, piano
Phil 420174
7:50
Ralph Vaughan Williams: “Whither Must I Wander?” & “The Vagabond” fr. Songs of Travel
Terfel, baritone; Martineau, piano
DG 445946
3:57, 3:06
Episode 5
George Frideric Handel: The Arrival of Queen Sheba fr. Solomon
Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood
L’Oiseau-Lyre 410553
3:17
Richard Wagner: Walkürenritt from Die Walküre
Berlin Phil/Tennstedt
EMI 68616
5:06
Sergei Prokofiev: Troika from Lt. Kije
St. Petersburg Philharmonic/Temirkanov
RCA 60984
2:40
Burrill Phillips: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra/Hanson
Mercury 434319
5:22
Frederick Delius: Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo & Juliet
London Symphony Orchestra/Barbirolli
EMI 62527
9:42
Charles-Valentin Alkan: Le Chemin de fer
Martin/Ringeissen
Naxos 8.553434
Hans Honegger: Pacific 231
Bavarian Radio & TV Symphony Orch/Dutoit
Erato 33171
6:15
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (excerpt)
French Radio National Orchestra/Villa-Lobos
EMI 761015
4:03
Duke Ellington/Strayhorn: Take the “A” Train
Duke Ellington Orchestra
2:56
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
San Francisco Symphony/de Waart
Nonesuch 79144
4:14