Program # 245
April 15-15, 2017: This broadcast of Intermountain Classics features a celebration of the Easter holiday this weekend and aa selection of both familiar and modern music celebrating the arrival of Spring. Opening the program will be a beautiful version of “Ave Maria” by Spanish contemporary composer Anselm Ferrer and sung by the Capella de Musicai at the Escoloania de Montserrat. Following will be the well known “Easter Cantata” by JS Bach and the “Russian Easter Overture” by Rimsky Korsakov. As a special “new music” treat I have a wonderful recording of a new work by Quartet San Francisco’s founder Jeremy Cohen, “Guamba”, based on traditional folk melodies from the island of Guam. During the second hour we welcome the coming Spring season with the “Spring” movement from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg, Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and a beautiful performance of “Dirait On”, a beautiful choral work taken from a set of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke entitled “Les Chansons des Roses”.
Intro: Lili Boulanger-Cortege for Violin and Piano [3.44]
Ferrer Anselm-Ave Maria (Capella de Musicai Escoloania de Montserrat/Joaquim Pique i Calvo & Eduard Vila i Perarnau, organ) [5.35]
Bach JS-Easter Cantata “Christ lag in Todesbanden” (Gachinger Kantorei & Bach Collegium, Stuttgart/Helmut Rilling) [20.00]
Rimsky-Korsakov-Russian Easter Overture Opus 36 (New York Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov) [16.07]
Cohen- Jeremy-Guamba (Quartet San Francisco) [7.56]
Hour 2:
Vivaldi-”Spring” form The Four Seasons (Europa Galante/Fabioni Biondi) [3.05]
Grieg-Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Opus 46 (The Halle Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli) [15.53]
Copland-Appalachian Spring (New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein) [24.42]
Lauridsen- Morton-Diirait On [4.42]
