A rocky island, surrounded by black water, with a dark sky overhead. A boatman is rowing toward an out-cropping where, presumably, his ghostly white passenger will spend the rest of time. It's a painting by Arnold Bocklin called "The Isle of the Dead." Sergei Rachmaninoff was so taken with the painting that he wrote a tone poem called "The Isle of the Dead." We'll hear it today, from a concert in Cincinnati.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonin Dvorak: Klid, Op. 68, No. 5 (Silent Woods)
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Gyorgy Ligeti: Concerto Romanesc
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Ben Blum from Maynard, Massachusetts
Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Inon Barnatan, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Hour 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Women's Dance, from Aleko
The London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conductor
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten)
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina
Grizzly Bear (Arranged by Brian Smith): Foreground
Revien
Ramsey Concert Hall, Athens Georgia
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Julian Kuerti, conductor
Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati
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