22 April 2009

Music for Yom ha-Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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

1. Arnold Schönberg: String Trio op.45 (1946)
Janneke van der Meer - violin, Henk Guittart - viola, Hans Woudenberg - cello
Philips, 416 306-2
19:34

2. Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphony No.18 "War - there is no word more cruel" (1982-85)
Texts by Sergei Orlov, Alexander Tvardovsky & traditional folk
Vladimir Fedoseyev - conductor, USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Latvian State Academic Chorus, Imants Tsepitis - choirmaster
M. Vainberg Vol.6
Olympia, OCD 589
43:07

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

3. Steve Reich: Different Trains (1988)
Kronos Quartet: David Harrington - violin, John Sherba - violin, Hank Dutt - viola, Joan Jeanrenaud - cello
Elektra/Nonesuch, 7559-79176-2
27'

4. Ruth Lomon: Chor der Waisen (2001)
Text by Nelly Sachs
Jane Ring Frank - conductor, Jayne West - soprano, Frank Kelley - tenor, The Boston Secession
Afterlife: German Choral Meditations on Mortality
Brave Records, BRAV-0508
3:54

5. Ruth Lomon: Transport (2006)
Text by Else Dormitzer, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, John R. Saunders, Vera Weislitzova & Dan Pagis
Jane Ring Frank - conductor, Adriana Repetto - soprano, Kristi Vrooman - soprano, Mary Gerbi - mezzo soprano, Marc J. DeMille - baritone, The Boston Secession
Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music
Boston Secession, BRAV0720
6:45

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

6. Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony No.1 "Versuch eines Requiems" (1935, rev. 1954-55)
Text by Walt Whitman
Ingo Metzmacher - conductor, Cornelia Kallisch - contralto, Bamberger Symphoniker
EMI, 7243 5 55424 2 7
26'

7. Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.44 in E minor "Trauer" (c. 1772)
Adam Fischer - conductor, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Haydn: The Symphonies Vol.3
Nimbus Records, NI 5530/34
22:56

8. J. S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue in F# minor BWV 883 from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (c. 1742)
Glenn Gould - piano
CBC Records, PSCD 2007
6:53

No comments:

Post a Comment