This week will explore symphonic music inspired by bucolic nature scenes. Bill mentions that we will listen to Harold in Italy, Richard Strauss in the mountains, Vaughan Williams in clover, and Beethoven right where you expect him to be, in the Austrian countryside. We’ll also feature the thoughts and writings of two notable American figures: environmentalist John Muir and novelist Wallace Stegner.
Pastoral Symphonies
Paints in a palette with a Brush
Playlist
Episode 1
Strauss, Richard: Alpine Symphony (excerpt)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
An Alpine Symphony / The Woman Without a Shadow
Erato 2292-45997
1:27
Moeran, Ernest John: In the Mountain Country
Ulster Orchestra/Vernon Handley
An Irish Rhapsody
Chandos 6525
7:05
Berlioz, Hector: Harold in Italy, I (excerpts)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire/John Eliot Gardiner; Gérard Caussé, viola
Harold En Italie / Tristia
Philips 446676
0:48
Berlioz, Hector: Harold in Italy, I (excerpts)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire/John Eliot Gardiner; Gérard Caussé, viola
Harold En Italie / Tristia
Philips 446676
14:54
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail: In the Mountain Pass from Caucasian Sketches, I (excerpt)
Baltimore Symphony/David Zinman
Russian Sketches
Telarc 80378
8:25
D’Indy, Vincent: Symphony on a French Mountain Air (excerpts)
BSO/Munch; Henriot-Schweitzer, piano
Symphony In D Minor / Beatrice And Benedict Overture / Symphonie Sur Un Chant
Montagnard = Symphony On A French Mountain Air
RCA 6805
18:21
MacDowell, Edward: To a Water Lily (excerpt)
James Barbagallo, piano
MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls
Naxos 8.223631
1:59
Episode 2
MacDowell, Edward: Woodland Sketches (excerpt)
James Barbagallo, piano
MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls
Naxos 8.223631
2:07
Strauss, Richard: Alpine Symphony
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
An Alpine Symphony / The Woman Without a Shadow
Era 2292-45997
19:38
Strauss, Richard: Alpine Symphony
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
An Alpine Symphony / The Woman Without a Shadow
Era 2292-45997
30:50
MacDowell, Edward: “To a Wild Rose”
James Barbagallo, piano
MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls
Naxos 8.223631
1:26
MacDowell, Edward: “To a Wild Rose”
James Barbagallo, piano
MacDowell: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls
Naxos 8.223631
0:40
Episode 3
Hovhaness, Alan: String Quartet No. 4, “Under the Ancient Maple Tree”, I
Shanghai Quartet
Spirit Murmur
Delos 3162
7:15
Roussel, Albert: Symphony No. 1, I & II
French National Orchestra/Charles Dutoit
Symphony No. 1 “The Forest Poem” / Symphony No. 3
Era 88225
12:45
Wagner, Richard: Siegfried, Act II (excerpt), “Forest Murmurs”
Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt
Orchestral Music
EMI 57242
6:47
Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Amazonas
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roberto Duarte
VILLA-LOBOS: Genesis / Erosao / Amazonas
Marco Polo 8.223357
13:02
Borodin, Alexander: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Philharmonia Orchestra/Geoffrey Simon
Borodin: Requiem, Polovtsian Dances, In the Steppes of Central Asia, Nocturne, Petite
Suite
Cala 1029
6:11
Joplin, Scott: “Maple Leaf Rag”
William Albright, piano
The Complete Rags Of Scott Joplin
Musicmasters 7061
3:03
Episode 4
Honegger, Arthur: Pastorale d’ete
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra/Michel Plasson
Pacific 231 / Horace Victorieux / Rugby / Mermoz / Summer Pastoral / The Storm
DG 435438
8:55
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Symphony No. 3, Pastoral, III & IV
London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn
Symphony No. 3 (“A Pastoral Symphony”) / Symphony No. 4
RCA 89827
17:21
Copland, Aaron: The Red Pony (excerpts)
St. Louis Symphony/Leonard Slatkin
Music For Films
RCA 61699
8:14
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: The Lark Ascending
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle; Kennedy, violin
Violin Concerto / The Lark Ascending
EMI 56413
17:28
Episode 5
Respighi, Ottorino: Gli Uccelli (excerpts)
London Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati
Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome; Ancient Airs and Dances; Brazilian Impressions
Mer 432007
4:12
van Beethoven, Ludwig: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Vienna Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 6 / Fantasia for piano and orchestra Op. 31.5
DG 419779
25:48
van Beethoven, Ludwig: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Vienna Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 6 / Fantasia for piano and orchestra Op. 31.5
DG 419779
18:26
Respighi, Ottorino: Gli Uccelli (excerpts)
London Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati
Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome; Ancient Airs and Dances; Brazilian Impressions
Mer 432007
4:12
