George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" is just the sort of piece that conductor Gustavo Dudamel shines at. It's jazzy, energetic, exuberant, and passionate, just like Dudamel himself. Last fall, Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic opened their season with an all-Gershwin concert, including his wide-eyed look at Paris in the 1920s. We'll hear highlights in today's show.
NOTE: Through our agreement with the Mozart Week Festival, Hour 2 of today's show is not available for web audio streaming
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
John Williams: Sound the Bells! and Aloft to the Royal Masthead
The Bay Brass, Alisdair Neale, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Nathan Brock, conductor
Wilfrid-Pelletier Hall, Montreal, Quebec
Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria
Polyphony, Stephen Layton, director
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
The Bay Brass, Jeffrey Budin, conductor
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
George Gershwin: Embraceable You
Herbie Hancock, piano
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Hour 2
Richard Strauss: Potpourri, from Die schweigsame Frau (the Silent Woman)
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor
Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 2 in A-flat, D. 935
Emanuel Ax, piano
Mozart Week, Salzburg, Austria
Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in F-sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3
Emanuel Ax, piano
Ma Shui-long: Two movements from Bamboo Flute Concerto
Michala Petri, recorder, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Lan Shui, conductor
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24, TrV 158
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
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