It's an ancient, simple story of boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy loses girl when she is abducted by pirates. Boy gets girl back, thanks to the intervention of a deity who is half-man and half-goat. OK, maybe the story of Daphnis and Chloe isn't so simple after all. But boy and girl live happily ever after in Maurice Ravel's ravishing, shimmering coming-of-age love story. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel play Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, from a concert at Walt Disney Hall.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Erich Korngold: Prelude and Serenade from Der Schneemann (The Snowman)
Lajos Farkas, violin, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert, conductor
Traditional Chanukah (arranged by Robert Applebaum): Funky Dreidel
Chicago a cappella, Patrick Sinozich, director
Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois
Traditional Sephardic: Los Siete Hijos de Hanna
Julianne Baird, soprano, Piffaro
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Edvard Grieg: Second movement from Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 36
Gautier Capucon, cello, Gabriela Montero, piano
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Erich Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Alina Pogostkina, violin, the Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Philharmonic Hall, Liege, Belgium
Jean Sibelius: Raindrops, for Violin and Cello
Alina Pogostkina, violin, Amy Norrington, cello
Philharmonic Hall, Liege, Belgium
Hour 2
Traditional (arranged by A. Binder): Candle Lighting Blessings
David Rappaport, soloist, the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Joshua Jacobson, conductor
George Perlman: The Dance of the Rabbi's Wife, from Hebrew Suite
Gil Shaham, violin, Orli Shaham, piano
92nd Street Y, New York City
Pavel Chesnokov: Salvation is Created
Cantus
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Massachusetts
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
John Playford: Excerpts from the English Dancing Master
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko, director
Mazovia Goes Baroque Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in A , K. 386
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano and conductor, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Second movement from Piano Sonata No. 10 in C, K. 330
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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