Get set to slum around the 19th century. Visit the Republic of MacDowell. Go dunk your head in the Bosphorus with Lord Byron, or is that Sir Richard Burton?

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

1. Franz Liszt: Excelsior!: Preludio to the Bells of Strasburg Cathedral (1874)
Leslie Howard - piano
Liszt: The Complete Music for Solo Piano 36: Excelsior! & Other Rare Original Works
Hyperion Records, CDA66995
3:41
(You'd be crazy to climb to façade of Strasburg Cathedral.)

2. Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches (1896)
Arranged by Lucas Asselbergs
The Beau Hunks: Ilona de Groot - violin, Tineke de Jong - violin, Charles Mutter - viola, Eelco Beinema - cello, Ronald Jansen Heijtmajer - clarinet & bass clarinet, Leendert de Jonge - flute & alto flute
Basta, 30-90382
20:12

3. Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches (1896)
Alan Mandel - piano
Piano Works of Edward MacDowell
Phoenix USA, PHCD 148
19:56

4. Edward MacDowell: Two Fragments after the Song of Roland (1891)
10:20
(Right, oh what a lovely war. The death of Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, 778.)

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

5. Edward MacDowell: Hamlet/Ophelia (1885)
17:20

6. Edward MacDowell: Lancelot und Elaine (1888)
18:27

7. Edward MacDowell: Lamia (1887-88)
17:33

Tracks 4-7
Karl Krueger - conductor, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward MacDowell: The Symphonic Poems
Bridge Records, 9089

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

8. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony (1885)
Maurice Abravanel - conductor, Utah Symphony Orchestra
MMG/Vox Prima, MWCD 7123
52:37