Felix Mendelssohn had been reading about Italy and was so excited to travel there for the first time. On the day he arrived, he wrote home to his family, saying: "Ahhhh, Italy at last! ...and I am basking in happiness!" In addition to great happiness, his trip inspired something else: his Italian Symphony, which we'll hear on Tuesday's Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Elgar, Vaughan Williams
DG 419 191
Franz Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B Minor
Alim Beisembayev, piano
Cliburn Junior Competition, Ed Landreth Hall, TCU, Fort Worth, TX
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, "Italian", Op. 90
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
The Barbican, London, England
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Mark Ashford): Seventeen Come Sunday, from 'English Folk Song Suite'
VIDA Guitar Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA
Hour 2
Harald Saeverud: Rondo Amoroso
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Per Dreier, conductor
Norwegian Composers Now - For Tomorrow: Harald Saeverud
Aurora 4913
Erik Satie: Gnossiennes Nos. 1 and 3
Remy van Kesteren, harp; Eric Vloeimans, trumpet
Alicia de Larrocha Hall, L'Auditori, Barcelona, Spain
Harald Saeverud: Kjempevise-slatten (The Ballad of Revolt), Op. 22/5
Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Eivind Aadland, conductor
Radio Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, op. 88
Sean Lee, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Matthew Lipman, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
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