Music teachers might be horrified at this idea, but one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era was almost completely self-taught. Georg Philipp Telemann had a total of about two weeks of lessons when he was a teenager. After that, he was on his own. We'll hear one of Telemann's orchestral suites, where he imagined what music from far-off places would sound like. Places like Turkey, Moscow, Switzerland, and Portugal. Plus, a Russian and a German imagine music from Spain and come up with the same title: two Spanish Caprices, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Moritz Moszkowski.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Procession of the Nobles, from Mlada
The Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams, conductor
Maurice Ravel: Second movement from String Quartet in F
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, Massachusetts
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G Minor, L 140
Lara St. John, violin, Martin Kennedy, piano
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
William Byrd: Tollite Portas (Gradualia I)
Stile Antico
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Spanish Caprice, Op. 34
The French National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France
Moritz Moszkowski: Spanish Caprice for Piano, Op. 37
Di Wu, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
Hour 2
Benjamin Britten: Excerpts from Suite on English Folk Tunes
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Paul Goodwin, conductor
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Traditional Sephardic: Hanuka
Lisle Kulbach, soloist, the Voice of the Turtle, Judith Wachs, director
Anonymous: Bublitsky
Klezmer Zahav
Concert Hall, Odense, Denmark
Georg Philipp Telemann: Suite in B-flat for Strings and Harpsichord, TWV 55:B5
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, BB 76
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ordway Center, St. Paul
Traditional (Arranged by Valerie Coleman): Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Imani Winds
Benjamin Walker White: Jordan's Shore
The Rose Ensemble, Jordan Sramek, conductor
Maud Mood Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
Time for Three: Thunderstomp
Time for Three
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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