Who’s voice is this anyway? Call me a Romantic
(Part 2 of hints about why music can be identified by time, location and even composer)
The Art Song
Stephen Foster song by Valerian Ruminski and William Hicks at the piano.
Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) – Sérénade pur violoncelle et piano
Membres du Trio Xanthos Antoine Desmard – violoncelle Teresa Janina Czekaj – piano
Opera
Giacomo Meyerbeer – Coronation March (from Le prophète) (1849) Richard Bonynge conducting the
London Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Offenbach: “Les oiseaux dans la charmille” (Les contes d’ Hoffmann / The Tales of
Hoffmann) Patricia JANEČKOVÁ, soprano – “New Years Concert in Vienna Style“ Janáček
Philharmonic Ostrava, Chief conductor: Heiko Mathias Förster January 7, 2016, Ostrava, Czech
Republic
Instrumental
Caroline plays Le papillon (The Butterfly) by Calixa Lavallée.
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’Indy Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, Op. 25 (1886)
Grant Johannesen, piano and the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens.
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Terje Tønnesen, leader
Arnold Schönberg – String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37, written in 1936. : LaSalle Quartet
Janáček – Sinfonietta final movement performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra at Proms 2008,
conducted by Peirre Boulez.
Harty: John Field Suite (Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson)
Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer,
conductor, pianist and organist.