Usually, when we hear about some newly-rediscovered piece of music, it's in some dusty monastery in Europe. In today's show, the story of Gustav Mahler's Blumine, which went missing for about 80 years and turned up in the library at Yale University. We'll hear a performance of Mahler's lost-and-found work, from a concert by the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Peter Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty Waltz
The New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1056b
Elmar Oliveira, violin and conductor, the Arco Ensemble
Eugene Shelley Enlow Recital Hall, Union, New Jersey
Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D and No. 7 in A, Op. 87
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 21, from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Till Fellner, piano
Gustav Mahler: Blumine (Bouquet of Flowers)
The New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043
Elmar Oliveira, violin and conductor, Eva Gruesser, violin, the Arco Ensemble
Eugene Shelley Enlow Recital Hall, Union, New Jersey
Hour 2
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The City of Birmingham Symphony, Simon Rattle, conductor
Joseph Haydn: Finale from String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 50, No.1
The Doric String Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90
The Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle, conductor
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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