Conductor Nicholas McGegan will take you on a colorful guided tour of Haydn's 92nd Symphony before leading the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in a performance of the work in St. Paul. Then we'll travel south to Northfield, where the male chorus, Cantus, will sing Thomas Tallis'"Lamentations of Jeremiah."
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joseph Haydn: Fourth movement from Quartet No. 27 in D, Op. 20, No. 4
The Mendelssohn String Quartet
Ruperto Chapi y Lorente: Prelude from "La Revoltosa"
Pepe, Celino and Lito Romero
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Richard Wagner: "Liebestod" from "Tristan and Isolde"
Pianist Jorge Luis Prats
Miami International Piano Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G ("Oxford")
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Nicholas McGegan
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
Thomas Tallis: "Lamentations of Jeremiah"
Cantus
Boe Memorial Chapel, Northfield, Minnesota
Hour 2
Claude Debussy: "Reverie"
Pianist Carol Rosenberger
Peteris Vasks: Cantabile for Strings
The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Yakov Kreizberg
Weimar Hall, Weimar, Germany
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola
Flutist Felicia van den Endt, violist Nobuko Imai and harpist Godelieve Schrama
Prinsenhof Museum, Delft, the Netherlands
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Third and fourth movements from "A London Symphony"
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with conductor Robert Spano
Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta
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