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Sweeping away the Dust

They're two works that were almost lost forever. Georges Bizet's Symphony in C sat on a shelf at the Paris Conservatory library for 60 years, a long-forgotten homework assignment by the 17-year-old composer. A researcher discovered it in 1933, dusted it off and got it published. And Anton Webern's lovely "In the Summer Breeze" spent some time in a hole in the ground, hidden by Webern himself as Russian troops marched into Vienna in 1945. We'll hear both, from concerts in Switzerland and New York.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Georges Bizet: Habanera, from Carmen
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Mily Balakirev: Islamey, Oriental Fantasy
Martina Filjak, piano
Parish Church, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Spain

Gabriel Faure: Fourth movement from Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13
Ani Kavafian, violin, Lindsay Garritson, piano
Battell Chapel, New Haven, Connecticut

Georges Bizet: Symphony No. 1 in C
The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor
Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland

Hour 2

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces No. 2 (Summer Evening) and No. 7 (Remembrances), Op. 71
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Arthur Honegger: Pastorale d'ete, H. 31 (Summer Pastorale)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christian Zacharias, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul

William Grant Still: Summerland
Alexa Still, flute, Susan DeWitt Smith, piano

Aaron Copland: Midsummer Nocturne
Ramon Salvatore, piano

Sergei Prokofiev: Excerpts from a Summer's Day, Op. 65
The Swiss-Italian Orchestra, Juraj Valcuha, conductor
Stelio Molo Auditorium, Lugano, Switzerland

Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind (In the Summer Breeze)
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City

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