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The Wanderer

"There where you are not, there happiness lies." Those are the closing lines from Franz Schubert's song, "The Wanderer." What started as a simple song of longing and loss turned into an orchestral barn-burner. Schubert liked the tune so much, he turned it into a piano piece. And then Franz Liszt got hold of it and made it into a showcase for piano and orchestra. Today, we'll hear a performance of "The Wanderer Fantasy" by pianist Antti Siirala and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, in concert in Stuttgart, Germany.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Franz Schubert: German Dance No. 10, D. 783, Landler No. 3, D. 790, and Moment Musical No. 3, D. 780
Gil Shaham, violin, Goran Sollscher, guitar

Eugene Bozza: Scherzo
Margaret Schenk, flute, Virginia McDowell, oboe, Jae-Won Kim, clarinet, Hunter Gordon, bassoon, and Pin-Chun Liu, horn
Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, Michigan

Peter Tchaikovsky: Scherzo from Memory of a Dear Place
The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky, conductor
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Fritz Kreisler: Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice
Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy in C
Antti Siirala, piano, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, conductor
Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany

George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-flat, HWV 313
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany

Hour 2

Enrique Granados: Goyescas-Intermezzo
The Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan, conductor

Gioacchino Rossini: Overture to the Italian Girl in Algiers
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ruggero Allifranchini, conductor
Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Josquin des Prez: Ave Verum Corpus
In Mulieribus, Anna Song, conductor
St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon

Marc Mellits: String Quartet No. 2
Cristina Buciu and Travis Newton, violins, Amy Diefes, viola, David LeDoux, cello
Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse, New York

Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dance No. 2, from Prince Igor
The Radio France Philharmonic, Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France

Enrique Granados: Spanish Dance No. 10
Eliot Fisk, guitar
Flagey, Brussels, Belgium

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