Brassy.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Wilhelm Ramsöe: Valve Fanfare
0:48

2. Johan Michael Hoffmann: Valdemar's Castle Dances (c. 1850)
6:25

Tracks 1-2
Arranged by Mogens Andresen
Royal Danish Brass
Romantic Brass Music from Scandinavia
Menuet, 160005-2

3. Georg Philipp Telemann: Heldenmusik (Heroic Music) (1728)
The New England Brass Ensemble, E. Power Biggs - organ
The Glorious Sound of Brass: Renaissance & Baroque Masterpieces
Sony, SBK 63061
13'

4. Leopold Mozart: Sinfonia pastorella (1756)
Jozsef Molnar - alphorn, Urs Schneider - conductor, Capella Istropolitana
10:52

5. Jean Daetwyler: Dialogue avec la nature
Jozsef Molnar - alphorn, Miroslav Kral - piccolo, Urs Schneider - conductor, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
19:13

Tracks 4-5
Alphorn Concertos
Naxos, 8.555978

Set #2 - 9:00am - 9:30am

6. Gioacchino Rossini: Le rendez-vous de chasse (1828)
Münchner Parforcehorn-Bläser: Engelbert Schmid, Siegfried Hammer, Otto Weber, Dieter Hepp & Ulrich Köbl - natural horns
Jagdmusik für originale Parforcehörner
Orfeo Classic, C 034-821 A
5:03

7. Bernard Herrmann: "The Hunt" from Marnie (1964)
Joel McNeely - conductor, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marnie Original Motion Picture Score
Varèse Sarabande, 302 066 094 2
4:17

8. Jerry Goldsmith: "The Hunt" from The Final Conflict (1981)

Lionel Newman - conductor, National Philharmonic Orchestra
The Final Conflict Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande, 302 066 289-2
4:00

9. Bernard Herrmann: "Dawn/The Idiot/Fear/The Cabin," "The Death Hunt" & "The Hunt's End" from On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Virginia Majewski - viola d'amore, Bernard Herrmann - conductor
On Dangerous Ground Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film Score Monthly, Vol.6 No.18
10'

Set #3 - 9:30am - 10:00am

10. Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.22 "The Philosopher" (1764)

Pinchas Zukerman - conductor, National Arts Centre Orchestra
RCA, 09026-60797-2
20:41

11. Frigyes Hidas: Tuba Concerto
John Griffiths - tuba, Bobby Herriot - conductor, National Youth Band of Canada
National Youth Band of Canada: Vancouver 1998
n.l., n.n.
9'

Set #4 - 10:00am - 11:00am

12. Elizabeth Raum: The Bushwakker Six-Pack (2002-04)

David McIntyre - piano, Pauline Minevich - clarinet, Karen Finnsson - alto sax
David McIntyre/Elizabeth Raum, 01369 6
24:15

13. Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (1935)
Arranged by Jason Fettig
Matt Tropman - euphonium, Gail Novak - piano
From the Balcony
Summit Records, DCD 316
26:44

The shades of Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles stalk the passageways. Like a good sea yarn and its natural issue, film noir, the dip is merciless and unforgiving.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 8:45am

1. Traditional: Tsjerne
4:37

2. Traditional: Boerskots
1:12

3. Traditional: Sliepmûts
1:01

4. Traditional: Horlepyp
1:52

5. Traditional: Dútse polka
1:17

6. Traditional: Iiswals
2:48

Tracks 1-6 (rec. 1989)
Ljouwerter Skotsploech
Fyftich Jier
PAN Records, PAN 188
(Frisian dance music, complete with creaking floorboards.)

7. "A Passenger to Bali" from The Mercury Summer Theater on the Air (broadcast CBS 5 July 1946)
Novel by Ellis St. Joseph (1936)
Bernard Herrmann - composer, conductor
Jim Ameche - Announcer
Orson Welles - Host & Rev. Dr. Walkes
Everett Sloane - Captain English
Alfred Shirley - British Consul
Stefan Schnabel
Guy Spaull
29'
(Story of a monster who moves in, leaves empty milk cartons in the fridge and never replaces the toilet paper.)

Set #2 - 8:45am - 10:00am

8. Bronislau Kaper: Lord Jim (1965)
Muir Mathieson - conductor
Mantle Hood - source music advisor
Lord Jim Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film Score Monthly, Vol.8 No.11
42:50
(Western orchestra abuts Indonesian gamelan.)

9. Aaron Avshalomov: Piano Concerto in G on Chinese Themes & Rhythms (1935)
Margaret Moore - piano, Jacob Avshalomov - conductor, Portland Youth Philharmonic
Composers Recordings Inc., CD 667
27:23

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

10. Richard Wagner: Vorspiel, "Steuermann, laß die Wacht!" & "Johohohoe! Johohohoe! Hoe! Hoe!" from Act III of The Flying Dutchman (1843)
Karl Böhm - conductor, Harald Ek - Daland's Helmsman, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele 1971
Der fliegende Holländer Disc 2
Deutsche Grammophon, 437 712-2
14'
(More floorboards creaking and stage noise in this live recording. They oughta update the setting to the Air Canada departure lounge.)

11. Uuno Klami: Sea Pictures (1930-32)
Jorma Panula - conductor, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos, 8.553757
20:35
(Mashed with 12 and 13.)

12. Monologue about man overboard from The Jean Shepherd Show (broadcast WOR, NYC 30 July 1960)
Jean Shepherd - narrator
("The water was warm and soupy but oh so deadly...")

13. Picnic scene from The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ac1YgegzmE
("We'd put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing. It was me had the first strike. A shark it was. Then there was another, and another shark again, till all about the sea was made of sharks, and more sharks still, and no water at all...")

As public broadcasters lemming off the cliff of a younger demographic, that which is peripheral to the "Classical Music for Dummies" canon is suddenly more interesting. This week's show presents Beethoven and Tchaikovsky's takes on "Ode to Joy" and symphonic battle scenes. Who'd want to eat Beef Napoleon anyways?

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Concerto turco nominato izia semaisi
Transcribed by Giovanni Battista Toderini (1787) &
Traditional: Hicaz son yürük semaî
L'Orient Imaginaire: Mustafa Doğan Dikmen - frame drum with metal discs, Vladimir Ivanoff - frame drum & artistic director, Ihsan Özer - board zither, Ahmed Kadri Rizeli - fiddle, Silke Strauf - cello, Belinda Sykes - oboe, Axel Weidenfeld - chitarrone, Mehmet Cemal Yesilçay - ud
Alla Turca
Teldec, 3984-24573-2
7:41

2. J. S. Bach: Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother (1704)
Wolfgang Rübsam - piano
Naxos, 8.550692
11'

3. Ludwig van Beethoven: 5 Variations on Rule Britannia in D major (1803)
4:28

4. Ludwig van Beethoven: 7 Variations on God Save the King in C major (1803)
8:42

Tracks 3-4
Alfred Brendel - piano
Beethoven: Piano Variations - Bagatelles Disc 1
Brilliant Classics, 93183

5. Robert Schumann: Hermann & Dorothea Overture (1851)
Riccardo Muti - conductor, Philharmonia Orchestra
EMI Classics, CZS 7 67319 2
9:06

6. Ludwig van Beethoven: Wellington's Victory (1813)
Arranged by Stephen McNeff
Georg Tintner - conductor, The Canadian Brass: Charles Daellenbach - tuba, Frederic Mills - trumpet, David Ohanian - horn, Ronald Romm - trumpet, Eugene Watts - trombone, Players from the New York Philharmonic & Boston Symphony Orchestra brass, John Brownell, Ruth Cahn & John Mele - percussion
Brass Busters!
RCA, 09026-68076-2
12:32

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasia for Chorus, Piano & Orchestra (1808)
Text by Christopher Kuffner (1808)
Andrew Davis - conductor, Anton Kuerti - piano, Toronto Symphony
CBC Records, SMCD5027-3
18:30

8. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Ode to Joy (1865)
Text by Friedrich Schiller (1785)
Derek Gleeson - conductor, Alla Ardakov - soprano, Ludmilla Shemchuk - contralto, Alexandre Naoumenko - tenor, Dimitri Kharitonov - bass, London Philharmonic & Choir
Carlton Classics, 30366 00122
27:40

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

9. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Festival Overture (Original Scoring) (1880)
Antal Dorati - conductor, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (now renamed Minnesota Orchestra), University of Minnesota Brass Band
Bronze Cannon (Douay, France 1775) provided by US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, The Riverside Church, NYC
Mercury, 434 360-2
15:20

10. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suite No.1 in D major (1878)
Kazuhiro Koizumi - conductor, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
CBC Records, SMCD 5089
41:03

I say Sinfonia, you say Symphonia, let's call the whole off thing the Komodo Dragon Show. This episode presents music after Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola from 1779. Highlights are the original conducted by Pablo Casals in exile, and John Cage's wild Mozartean night in the calliope factory.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 8:45am

1. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté: Solo Violin Suite No.1 (1922)
Nándor Szederkényi - violin
MUSIKarpatia, unreleased recording
17:36

2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Duo for Violin & Viola No.2 in B-flat major K.424 (1783)
Arthur Grumiaux - violin, Arrigo Pelliccia - viola
Complete Mozart Edition Vol.13: String Trios & Duos Disc 1
Philips, 422 513-2
20'

Set #2 - 8:45am - 10:00am

3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K.364 (1779; rec. Perpignan, France July 1951)
Isaac Stern - violin, William Primrose - viola, Pablo Casals - conductor, Perpignan Festival Orchestra
Sony, SMK 58983
34:12

4. Larry Austin: Sinfonia Concertante: A Mozartean Episode for chamber orchestra and computer music narrative (1986)
Text by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1777-78)
Stefan Hurdalek - narrator, Thomas Clark - conductor
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol.1
Centaur Records, CRC 2029
16:47

5. Edgar Meyer: Third movement: Quarter note = 150 from Double Concerto for Cello & Double Bass (1995)
Hugh Wolff - conductor, Yo-Yo Ma - cello, Edgar Meyer - double bass, The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Sony, SK 60956
6:47

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

6. John Cage & Lejaren Hiller: HPSCHD (1969)
Realization by Joel Chadabe (2003)
Robert Conant - harpsichord
EMF Media, EMF CD 038
65'