Poster Trio Mediaeval
Trio Mediaeval
Asa M. Mikkelsen
Performance Today®

Transcendental Music

It's long been known that music has the ability to help transport us out of our daily lives. It's one of the reasons so many of us listen to it. In today's show, we have a whole hour of music about other realms of being, and higher planes of existence. "Visions of Another World," by Karim Al-Zand, "Music of the Spheres," by Josef Strauss, and a Transcendental Etude by Franz Liszt. Plus an ethereal Norwegian vision of heaven from the women of Trio Mediaeval (pictured).

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First movement from Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Trumpet Concerto in D
David Washburn, trumpet, and friends
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in B Minor, K. 27
Sara Daneshpour, piano
Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul

Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade in G
The Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor, the Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Hall, Cleveland

Hour 2

Gustav Holst: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from the Planets
The CSR Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper, conductor

Josef Strauss: Music of the Spheres
The Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 11, S. 139 (Evening Harmonies)
Roberto Plano, piano
The Frederic Chopin Society, St. Paul

Karim Al-Zand: Visions from Another World
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston

Traditional (Arranged by Linn Andrea Fuglseth): I Know of a Heavenly Stronghold
Trio Mediaeval
Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130
The Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California

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