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Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Joaquin Rodrigo: Old Dance Airs: Giga
Valencia Community Orchestra | Joan Enric Lluna, conductor
Album: Soleriana
IBS 82020
Harrison J. Collins: The Beginning of Spring
John Romero, trombone | Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, piano
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, New York, NY
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D, Op. 25 (Classical)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra | Valery Gergiev, conductor
Verbier Festival, Combins Hall, Verbier, Switzerland
Joaquin Rodrigo: Seven Valencian Songs (excerpts)
Cecilia Berkovich, violin | Miguel Ituarte, piano
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Hour 2
Francisco Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Paco Peña & Eliot Fisk, guitars
Album: Paco Peña & Eliot Fisk in Duo Recital
Wyastone Estate Limited
Margi Griebling-Haigh: Rhapsody for Violin and Piano
Peter Otto, violin | Randall Fusco, piano
Cleveland Composers Guild, Drinko Recital Hall, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Sergei Prokofiev: from Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
Aleksandra Kasman, piano
Young Artist in Residence Series, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN
Federico Torroba: Sonatina: Movement 2
Eliot Fisk, guitar
92nd Street Y, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy
Seattle Symphony | Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Album: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra | Scriabin: The Poem Of Ecstasy
Seattle Symphony Media 1025
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