People who are always changing their minds can be a little maddening to work with. "I want it this way. No, wait, how about that way. No, now that I think about it, this other way is much better. You know, I think I liked it better the first way." Anton Bruckner was one of those people. He revised his fourth symphony no fewer than seven times. Today's show features one of those revisions, as the Toronto Symphony and conductor Peter Oundjian perform the first movement from Bruckner's fourth.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Antonin Dvorak: Lento Maestoso from Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 90, ("Dumky")
Pianist Wu Han, violinist Ani Kavafian, and cellist David Finckel
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Felix Mendelssohn: "Hexenlied," Op. 8, No. 8
Violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Sebastian Knauer
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C Minor
Musicians of the Savannah Music Festival
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Camille Saint-Saens: Excerpts from "The Carnival of the Animals"
Musicians from Music@Menlo
Music@Menlo, Menlo Park, California
Johann Sebastian Bach: Excerpts from Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
The Netherlands Bach Society with countertenor Matthew White and conductor Jos van Veldhoven
Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Hour 2
Frank Martin: "Fox Trot"
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Hugh Wolff
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to "An Italian Girl in Algiers"
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with conductor Ruggero Allifranchini
Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Anton Bruckner: First movement from Symphony No. 4
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra with conductor Peter Oundjian
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Ontario
Maurice Ravel: "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
Musicians from Music@Menlo
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Michael Daugherty: "Sequin Music" from "Le Tombeau de Liberace"
Pianist Terrence Wilson
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota
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