Today we continue our week-long look at the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the world's finest. They've had lots of colorful characters at the podium, including one who always conducted with a pistol in his back pocket. Today, we'll hear guest conductor Robert Spano lead the orchestra in music by Wagner and Ravel, from a concert in Cleveland.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Maurice Ravel: "Oiseaux Tristes" No. 2
Pianist Maurice Ravel
Richard Wagner: Overture to "Tannhauser"
The Cleveland Orchestra with conductor Robert Spano
Severance Hall, Cleveland
"The Piano Puzzler": This week's contestant is Abigail Cross from Somerville, Massachusetts.
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie Espagnole"
The Cleveland Orchestra with conductor Robert Spano
Severance Hall, Cleveland
Hour 2
Jean Sibelius: Alla Marcia from "Karelia" Suite, Op. 11, No. 3
The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Leif Sagerstam
Waldemar Kazanecki and Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on Waltz from the film, "Nights and Days"
Pianist Gabriela Montero
Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 82
The West German Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Semyon Bychkov
Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Jan Sandstrom: "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"
The Stockholm Music College Chorus with conductor Bengt Ollen
St. Clare's Church, Stockholm, Sweden
Anonymous: "Verbum Patris Umanatur"
In Mulieribus with conductor Anna Song
St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon
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