"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Those opening lines from Dickens'"A Tale of Two Cities" are burned into almost everyone's consciousness. But what about the rest of the book? Who can quote that? In today's show, we'll have another great opening line, the sunrise from "Also Sprach Zarathustra." Everyone knows it from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Plus the part no one remembers, the rest of the half-hour tone poem by Richard Strauss.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
York Bowen: Preludes Nos. 21 and 16, Op. 102
Stephen Hough, piano
Georg Philipp Telemann: Third movement from Double Concerto in E Minor for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1
Anna Fusek, recorder, Christoph Huntgeburth, flute, the Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin
Saint Lawrence's Church, Lausanne, Switzerland
Perfchat with Paul Jacobs: Perfchat
Edward Elgar: Allegretto from Sonata in G, Op. 28
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
Johann Sebastian Bach: Third movement from Trio Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
Nadia Boulanger: Prelude
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
Florence Beatrice Price: Fughetta
Paul Jacobs, organ
Studio P, St. Paul
York Bowen: Finale from Symphony No. 2, Op. 31
The BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis, conductor
Hour 2
Jules Massenet: The Last Sleep of the Virgin, from La Vierge
The City of Birmingham Symphony, Louis Fremaux, conductor
Francois Dompierre: Prelude No. 1 for Piano Solo
Alain Lefevre, piano
Wilfrid-Pelletier Hall, Montreal, Quebec
Aaron Copland: Piano Blues No. 1
Ricardo Descalzo, piano
Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Vincent Segal: "Ma-Ma" FC
Ballake Sissoko, kora, Vincent Segal, cello
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Kevin Volans: First movement from String Quartet No. 1 (White Man Sleeps)
The Kronos Quartet
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
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