Conductor Nicholas McGegan will take you on a colorful guided tour of Haydn's 92nd Symphony before leading the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in a performance of the work in St. Paul. Then we'll travel south to Northfield, where the male chorus, Cantus, will sing Thomas Tallis'"Lamentations of Jeremiah."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: Fourth movement from Quartet No. 27 in D, Op. 20, No. 4
The Mendelssohn String Quartet
Ruperto Chapi y Lorente: Prelude from "La Revoltosa"
Pepe, Celino and Lito Romero
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Richard Wagner: "Liebestod" from "Tristan and Isolde"
Pianist Jorge Luis Prats
Miami International Piano Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G ("Oxford")
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Nicholas McGegan
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
Thomas Tallis: "Lamentations of Jeremiah"
Cantus
Boe Memorial Chapel, Northfield, Minnesota
Pero de Gamboa: Three Choral Works
The Gulbenkian Choir with conductor Michel Corboz
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Hour 2
Sir Edward Elgar: Adagio from Elegy for Strings, Op. 58
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Cornelius Schuyt: "Padovana del secondo modo" and "Gagliarda del secondo modo"
The Royal Wind Music with director Paul Leenhouts
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
Ingram Marshall: "Orphic Memories"
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 10 in B Minor
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Carlo Gesualdo: Three sections of "Tenebrae Responsoria"
The Hilliard Ensemble
Francois Couperin: "Troisieme Lecon" from "Lecons de Tenebres de Mercredy"
Concerto Vocale with conductor René Jacobs
Osvaldo Golijov: Music from "Tenebrae"
The St. Lawrence String Quartet with clarinetist Todd Palmer
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Frederic Chopin: Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52
Pianist Michel Dalberto
Richard Strauss: Suite from "Der Rosenkavalier"
The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Alan Gilbert
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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