Igor Stravinsky borrowed all of the tunes from his ballet, "Pulcinella" from Italian music of the eighteenth century. But he put his own musical fingerprints on it. It's a delightful mix of old and new. We'll hear a performance of the Suite from Pulcinella from the New York Philharmonic.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 6 in D-Flat, BWV 1012
Harpist Victoria Drake
Ludwig van Beethoven: Two movements from the Octet for Winds, Op. 103
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
DePaul University Concert Hall, Chicago
Pablo Casals: "Song of the Birds" for Cello and Organ
Cellist Desmond Hoebig and organist Gregory D'Agostino
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Eastsound, Washington
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Gulliver Suite"
Violinists Geoff Nuttall and Barry Shiffman
Music@Menlo Festival, Palo Alto, California
Francesco Mancini: Sonata Sesta in D
Rebel Ensemble
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Georg Philipp Telemann: Third movement from "Sonata Discordato in A"
Rebel Ensemble
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Kurt Masur
Avery Fisher Hall, New York
Hour 2
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor James Levine
Henry Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Orchestra
Trumpeter Gary Bordner and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Nicholas McGegan
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two movements from the Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat, KV 563
Violinist Christain Tetzlaff, violist Tabea Zimmerman, and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff
Spannungen Music Festival, Heimbach, Germany
Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Clarinetist Martin Spangenberg with the Munich Philharmonic and conductor James Levine
Munich Philharmonie, Munich, Germany
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3
Pianist Ingrid Fliter
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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