Maryland's Classical Music Station

2/21/15 – Vocalise Rundown

8:00 PM

Dalí depicts Swans Reflecting Elephants, and Saint-Saëns musically characterizes swans and elephants in The Carnival of the Animals performed tonight by the The King’s Singers!

 

 

Franz Schubert                Die Forelle (The Trout)   Op 32 D   550 DG/Archiv  435145
SOLO Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
SOLO Hubert Giesen, piano

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8:02 PM
Camille Saint-Saens           Carnival of the Animals (Carl Davis arr)Angel/EMI  47708
COND Carl Davis
ORCH Scottish Chamber Orchestra
SOLO The King’s Singers
SOLO Howard Shelley, piano
SOLO Hilary Macnamara, piano

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8:36 PM
Sir Arthur Sullivan           Pirates of Penzance: With Cat-like Tread London     460371
COND Isidore Godfrey
ORCH Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
SOLO D’oyly Carte Opera Co.

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8:39 PM
Giacomo Puccini               Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus (Act 2)London     443825
COND Tullio Serafin
ORCH Saint Cecilia Orchestra
SOLO Saint Cecilia Chorus

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8:42 PM
Gustav Mahler                 St. Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the FisBBC        297
SOLO Christianne Stotijn, mezzo
SOLO Julius Drake, piano

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8:47 PM
Gioacchino Rossini            Duetto buffo di due gatti               Bis        17
SOLO Elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano
SOLO Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano
SOLO Jan Eyron, pianist