This week, Todd Levy and friends play “Souvenirs de Voyage” , the rarely performed clarinet quintet by Bernard Hermann. Also, Harry Bicket leads selections from “Water Music”: the iconic and jubilant soundscape that Handel composed for a river party.
Water Music and Souvenirs de Voyage
Harry Bicket (Photo: Dario Acosta for the Santa Fe Opera)
Playlist
George Frideric Handel: Water Music Suite in D Major and G Major, HWV 349–350 (ca. 1717)
Harry Bicket, conductor & harpsichord; with an ensemble made up primarily of members of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra (Daniel Jordan, Jennifer Best Takeda, Ashley Vandiver, Kathleen Brauer, Christopher Takeda, L.P. How, Debra Fong, Carla Ecker, Lisa Ferguson, violins; Margaret Dyer Harris, Theresa Rudolph, Melissa Trier Kirk, viola; Alastair Eng, Mark Brandfonbrener, Christopher Schnell, cellos; Anne Peterson, double bass; Bart Feller, flute; Robert Ingliss, Julia DeRosa, oboes; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Julia Pilant, David Byrd-Marrow, horn; William Leathers, David Dash, trumpet
Bernard Herrmann: Souvenirs de Voyage for Clarinet Quintet (1967)
Todd Levy, clarinet; Ida Kavafian, L.P. How, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Eric Kim, cello
