May 14, 2016: This week’s Intermountain Classics presents the beautiful “Chichester Psalms” by American composer Leonard Bernstein, a grand oratorio for choir, orchestra, boys choir and with boy alto soloist, based on the Psalm of David from the Hebrew bible. Also featured is Manuel de Falla’s “Three Cornered Hat”, a Spanish retelling of the tale of a magistrate who attempts to seduce his neighbor’s faithful wife, and a beautiful concert overture reflecting the folk music of Brazil by South American composer Mozart Camargo Guarneri. The well known tone poem “Don Quixote” by Richard Strauss is featured during the second hour of the program. Other musical gems await you as well, enjoy listening!
Playlist:
Hour 1
Intro Music: Bizet-Galop [1.51]
Bernstein-Chichester Psalms (The American Symphony Orchestra & The New York Vocal Consort with Choirs of the American Boychoir School with Todd Caruso, Boy Alto) [19.27]
De Falla-Three Cornered Hat (The London Philharmonic Orchestra/Hugo Ringold) [12.29]
Guarnieri-Abertura Concertante: Energico e ritmando (Orquestra Sinfonica de Estado de Sao Paulo/John Nestling) [11.43]
Anderson: The Typewriter (Cologne Radio Orchestra/Pinchas Sternberg ) [4.24]
Hour 2
Rossini-Overture to the Opera ' Italian Girl in Algiers' (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Evelino Pido) [8.04]
Strauss-Don Quixote Opus 35 (Chicago Symphony/Fritz Reiner with Antonio Janigro, cello & Milton Preves, viola) [42.58]
Exit Music: Anderson-Blue Tango [2.40]
