It's too bad there's no DNA test to help determine who wrote a piece of music. In today's show, an orphaned symphonic prelude performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Some say Anton Bruckner wrote it, no doubt about it. Others say no way. It was Gustav Mahler, no doubt about it. The fact is, there's more than enough doubt to go around. We can't definitively say who wrote it. And from that same concert in Amsterdam, a work of much more certain parentage: a flashy, brassy orchestral work called the Sinfonietta. Leos Janacek wrote it for a gymnastic society in 1926.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 3, and Mazurka in B-flat, Op. 17, No. 1
Richard Goode, piano
Pablo de Sarasate: Habanera from Spanish Dances, Op. 21, No. 2
Benjamin Beilman, violin, Francis Perron, piano
Montreal International Music Competition, Montreal, Quebec
Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
George Li, piano, the Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, conductor
Cooper International Competition, Cleveland
Antonio Vivaldi: Second movement from Concerto in G for 2 Mandolins, RV 532
Paolo Ciociola and Nicola Granillo, violins, Interpreti Veneziani
Camelback Bible Church, Phoenix
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: Finale from Symphony No. 101 in D, Hob.I:101 (The Clock)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis, conductor
Edvard Grieg: At the Matching Game, from Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22
Arve Tellefsen, violin, Sveinung Bjelland, piano
Bergen International Festival, Bergen, Norway
Matthew Locke: Incidental Music from the Tempest
Il Giardino Armonico
Radiohead (Arranged by Sybarite5): Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sybarite5
Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, Sarasota, Florida
Bernard Reichel: Petit Magnificat
The Lausanne Vocal Ensemble, Michel Corboz, director
Payerne Church, Payerne, Switzerland
Anton Bruckner (attributed): Symphonic Prelude in C Minor
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Markus Stenz, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta, JW VI/18
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Markus Stenz, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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