Our first hour features music inspired by the water, starting with Smetana's "The Moldau," performed by the Russian National Orchestra in Florida. We'll also have flowing works from Ravel, Michael Daugherty and Dana Wilson. And Rebel plays a Handel "Water Music" Suite in Virginia.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonin Dvorak: Polonaise from "Rusalka"
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Vaclav Neuman
Bedrich Smetana: "Vltava" ("The Moldau")
The Russian National Orchestra with conductor Claus Peter Flor
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Maurice Ravel: "A Boat on the Ocean" from "Miroirs" for Piano
Pianist Adam Neiman
Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival, Seattle, Washington
Michael Daugherty: "Water Fall" from "Bay of Pigs"
Guitarist Manuel Barrueco with Cuarteto Latinoamericano
92nd Street Y, New York City
Dana Wilson: Second movement from "Shallow Streams, Deep Rivers"
Gail Williams, French horn; Joseph Genualdi, violin; and Alan Chow, piano
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois
George Frideric Handel: Allegro, Air and Alla Hornpipe from "Water Music" Suite No. 1 in F, HWV 348
Rebel and Deutsche Naturhorn Solisten
Cabell Hall Auditorium, Charlottesville, Virginia
Hour 2
Richard Strauss: Third movement from Symphony in D Minor
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Galop" from "Moscow, Cheremushky"
The Philharmonic Winds with conductor John Boyd
Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Members of the Chicago Chamber Musicians
Gottlieb Hall, Chicago
Sir Edward Elgar: "In the South" Overture ("Alassio"), Op. 50
The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo
Richard Strauss: Prelude to "Capriccio," Op. 85
Concertante
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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