One hundred years ago this weekend, 1500 men, women, and children lost their lives when the RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic. Musicians on board were said to have played the hymn, "Nearer my God to Thee," as the great ship was sinking. In today's show, musical memories of the Titanic, including Carl Nielsen's arrangement of "Nearer my God to Thee."
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Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jean Sibelius: Humoresque, Op. 89, No. 1
Joseph Swensen, violin, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Carl Nielsen: Paraphrase on Nearer My God to Thee
The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Traditional American (Arranged by John G. McCurry): Parting Friends
Anonymous 4
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Vadim Repin, violin, the San Francisco Symphony, Osmo Vanska, conductor
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Hour 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Hymn of the Cherubim, from Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, Op. 31
The Russian State Symphony Capella, Valery Polyansky, director
Maciej Malecki: Joyful Thoughts, from Concerto for Vibraphone and Marimba with Orchestra (Thinking at the Fountain)
The Hob-beats Percussion Duo, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski, conductor
Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland
PT Young Artist in Residence: Mayumi Kanagawa, violin
Claude Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano, L. 140
Mayumi Kanagawa, violin, Hsin-I Huang, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Gavin Bryars: Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
The Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Thomas Ades: Three Studies from Couperin for Chamber Orchestra
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Donato Cabrera, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
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