The first musical instruments, back in the caveman days, were percussion instruments. Discarded bones, hollow logs covered with animal skins. A battery of noisemakers designed to instill fear in one's enemies and keep evil spirits at bay. Today, we'll meet a percussion instrument that would have fit right in in those early times, the lion's roar. Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Wind Symphony put the lion's roar to good use in a set of Renaissance dances. Plus, a couple of woodland sketches and one of the greatest musical sunrises ever, the opening of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edvard Grieg: Summer Evening and Remembrances, from Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Silvana, J. 87
The RTE National Symphony Orchestra, John Finucane, conductor
National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland
Antonin Dvorak: Silent Woods, from Ze Sumavy (From the Bohemian Forest), Op. 68, B.133
William Wolfram and Andrew Armstrong, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival, Seattle
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in E Minor for Flute, Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo, TWV 52:e3
REBEL
International Handel Festival, Gottingen, Germany
George Frideric Handel: Bourree from Water Music Suite in D , HWV 349
REBEL
International Handel Festival, Gottingen, Germany
Edvard Grieg: Til Varen (To Spring), Op. 43, No. 6
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Music@Menlo, Palo Alto, California
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Damian Iorio, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hour 2
Percy Grainger: Rufford Park Poachers, from Lincolnshire Posy
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Orlando di Lasso: Aurora Lucis Rutilat
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, conductor
Ealing Abbey, London, England
Nick Drake: Northern Sky
Christopher O'Riley, piano
Bright Sheng: First movement from Northern Lights for Cello and Piano
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, Inon Barnatan, piano
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City
Tielman Susato: Selections from the Danserye
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
Didier Benetti: Piazzolino 1
The Schwetzingen Festival Percussion Ensemble
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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