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Playlist
Episode 1
Allegri: Miserere
Tallis Scholars/Phillips
Gimell 41
12:18
Des Préz: Adieu Mes Amours & La Bernadina
Fretwork
HM 507291
1:51 & 1:01
Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge (song)
DeGaetani, mezzo soprano; Kalish, piano
Nonesuch 71325
3:47
LP
4:26
Picker: Old and Lost Rivers (excerpt)
Eschenbach, piano
Virgin 61519
2:43
Picker: Old and Lost Rivers (excerpt)
Houston Symphony/Eschenbach
Virgin 61519
4:14
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
“Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey”
Cleveland Orchestra/Szell
CBS 46286
12:02
Gottschalk: Symphony No. 1
“A Night in the Tropics” (excerpt)
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel
Vanguard 1906
3:51
Episode 2
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44
I. II.
Philharmonia Orchestra/Slatkin; Douglas, piano
RCA 61633
34:25
Kern: Portrait for Orchestra, Mark Twain
I. III.
Boston Pops Orchestra/Lockhart
RCA 68786
6:27
McGlaughlin: “The Bells of St. Ferdinand”
Tucson Symphony/McGlaughlin
8:16
Episode 3
Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen (excerpts)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Rattle
Chandos 3101
14:59, :29
Wolf: Goethe Lieder
“Heiss Mich Nicht Reden”
Augér, soprano; Gage, piano
Hyp 66590
3:02
Wolf: Mörike Lieder
“Neue Liebe”
Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Richter, piano
DG 457898
3:30
Wolf: Italian Serenade in G Major,
III.
Hagen Quartet
DG 427669
6:27
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Atlanta Symphony/Runnicles; Brewer, soprano
Telarc 80661
20:21, :35
Episode 4
Puccini: Preludio Sinfonico
London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano
EMI 57159
8:35
Puccini: Messa di Gloria (excerpts)
London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano
Alagna, tenor; Hampson, baritone
EMI 57159
14:51, 12:16
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze (excerpts)
Biss, piano
EMI 85894
7:13, 7:34
Episode 5
Gottschalk: Symphony No. 1, “A Night in the Tropics,”
I. II.
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel
Vanguard 1906
18:46
Gottschalk: Bamboula (excerpt)
List, piano
Vanguard 1906
1:01
Debussy: Children’s Corner
“Golliwog’s Cakewalk”
Thibaudet, piano
Decca 460247
2:45
Joplin: “Maple Leaf Rag” (excerpt)
Rifkin, piano
None 79159
:50
Gershwin: “Rialto Ripples” (excerpt)
Pennario, piano
EMI 64668
:32
Gershwin: “Three Quarter Blues”
Pennario, piano
EMI 64668
1:33
Gershwin, arr. Heifetz: Porgy & Bess
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”
Mutter, violin; Previn, piano
DG 000005802
2:37
Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges
“Five O’Clock Foxtrot”
Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon
Cala 4027
4:26
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Woody Herman & the Woody Herman Band/Stravinsky
Everest 9049
9:12
Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances
“Cool Fugue”
LA Philharmonic/Bernstein
DG 410025
3:54
Bernstein: West Side Story (excerpts)
“Cool”
The Bill Charlap Trio
Blue Note 94807
2:58