Irish poet William Butler Yeats tried to "reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village, who sings them to herself." That inspired his poem, "The Salley Gardens," which has been set to music by at least half a dozen composers. We'll hear Benjamin Britten's version, sung by Sarah Connolly, in concert last week at Wigmore Hall in London. Also, Chatham Baroque plays a set of Irish jigs in concert in Pittsburgh. Two great Irish orchestras in concert in Dublin. And Bruce Adolphe has a brand new Piano Puzzler.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in D, Op. 23, No. 4
Pianist Barry Douglas
Traditional Irish Jig: New Claret
Ensemble Galilei
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville, Florida
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
The Dallas Wind Symphony and the United States Army Field Band with conductor Jerry Junkin
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestants are a husband-and-wife team, Owen and Annette Hungerford from Columbus, IN.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
Pianist and conductor Barry Douglas with Camerata Ireland
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Hour 2
John Field: Go to the Devil
Pianist Miceal O'Rourke
Traditional Irish Jig Medley: Bishop of Chester's Jig, Foxhunter's Jig, and St. Patrick's Day
Chatham Baroque
Synod Hall, Oakland, Pennsylvania
Benjamin Britten: The Salley Gardens
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Eugene Asti
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 (Italian)
The RTE National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gerhard Markson
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
John Field: Nocturne No. 4 in A
Pianist Miceal O'Rourke
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B, Op. 32, No. 1
Pianist Angela Wu
The University of Michigan Chopin Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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