Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Sunday Morning
Euro-Classical Broadcast
WCBN FM - 11.27.16

Tarantella
Divertissement Op.80
Nikolai Myaskovsky {1948}

Macbeth - ballet from Act III
Giuseppe Verdi {1865}

Dance of Spectres and Furies
from the ballet Don Juan
Christoph Willibald von Gluck {1761}

In Thrall to a Thousand Furies
Semiramide riconoscuita
Nicola Porpora {1729}

Sinfonia from La Sena Festeggiante
Antonio Vivaldi {c.1726}

You Ladies Who Know What Love Is
{Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro}
W.A. Mozart {1786}

Merciful Heaven, in Such Peril…
Maometto Secondo
Gioachino Rossini {1820}

Ave Maria
Otello
Giuseppe Verdi {1884-85}

Largo – String Quartet
in G Minor Op.74 No.3
Joseph Haydn {1793}

Das Augenlicht Op. 26
Anton Webern {1935}

November: Troika - The Seasons
P.I. Tchaikovsky {1875-76}

In the Village
Modest Mussorgsky {1880}

Five Piano Pieces
Sandor Veress {c.1950}

Prelude and Fugue
on a Theme of Vittoria
for solo organ
Benjamin Britten 1946

Modocomor
Guillaume Dufay {c.1450-60}

Sonatine Pastorale
Op.59 No.3
Serge Prokofiev {1933-34}
performed by the composer in 1935

A Pastoral Song
Joseph Haydn {1794}

Seclusion
Hugo Wolf {1888}

Autumn Resolution
Hugo Wolf {1879}

On an Old Painting
Hugo Wolf 1888

The Sun on the Ganges
Alessandro Scarlatti

The Singer on the Rock
Franz Schubert {1816}

My Little Love,
You Should Not Go Barefoot
folk lyrics set by Johannes Brahms

A Journey of Longing
Johannes Brahms {c. 1877-82}
version for cello & piano

A Journey of Longing
Johannes Brahms {c. 1877-82}
performed in 1929
by Alexander Kipnis
and Arthur Bergh

Two Poems by Louis Aragon:
“C” and “Fetes galantes”
Francis Poulenc 1943

Kaiserwalzer
Johann Strauss Jr. 1889
transcribed for string quartet
by Arnold Schoenberg 1925

Die Muschel von Margate:
The Petroleum Song
words by Felix Gasbarra
Kurt Weill 1928

General Speech
MacArthur’s West Point Retirement Speech
scored for solo trombone by Robert Erickson {1969}

Antiformalist Rayok
Dmitri Shostakovich 1957







on sunday 10/30/16, anticipating an impending right-wing takeover of the united states government, i chose the following works to air on "dead white guys", WCBN's euro-classical radio program:

Life With An Idiot

opera by Alfred Schnittke
"an allegory of oppression"
premiered in 1992

Allegro non troppo from

Symphony No.8 by
Dmitri Shostakovich

Essay on Pigs

Hans Werner Henze 1968

Ballad on Approving of the World

verses by Bertolt Brecht
set by Hans Eisler as Op.42, 1944

Piano Trio No.2 in E Minor Op.67

Dmitri Shostakovich 1944

excerpt from Stimmung

Karlheinz Stockhausen 1968