Last week, Gustavo Dudamel opened his second season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was a celebratory concert with music by Rossini and several Latin-American composers. We'll sample a few highlights, including Rossini's La Gazza Ladra Overture, the Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez, and several performances featuring the sparkling tenor voice of Juan Diego Florez. (And yes, we'll hear both of his encores!)
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Claude Debussy: Morning of a Festival Day from Images for Orchestra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Gioachino Rossini: Principe Piu non Sei, from La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Juan Diego Florez, tenor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Agustin Lara: Granada
Juan Diego Florez, tenor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Gaetano Donizetti: Ah! mes Amis, from the Daughter of the Regiment
Juan Diego Florez, tenor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Giuseppe Verdi: La Donna e Mobile, from Rigoletto
Juan Diego Florez, tenor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Vincenzo Bellini: Casta Diva
Joan Sutherland, soprano, the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Bonynge, conductor
Hour 2
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession of the Sardar from Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1, Op. 10
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon Gee, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelles No. 1 in E-flat and No. 7 in A-flat, Op. 33
Anton Nel, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Redmond, Washington
Gyorgy Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall, Chicago
Sergei Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Transformations: Al Kamandjati: Music School in Ramallah, West Bank
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