Verdi's Requiem: #256

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William Cromwell

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KBOO

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The Third Floor

Air date:

Sun, 06/21/2020 - 8:00am to 11:00am

Guiseppe Verdi’s magnificent Requiem on this week's program. Also music from Gretchaninov, Beethoven, Holst, Rachmaninov, Bach, and Schubert with the usual Third Floor mix of choral, vocal, and instrumental music.

TTF Program 256

June 21, 2020

Hour One

Hieronymus Praetorius: Hodie Christus natus est (Weser-Renaissance of Bremen, dir. Manfred Cordes) 3:01

Haydn: Divertimenti #1 (Hamburg Soloists, dir. Emil Klein) 17:11

Finzi: All this night (The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, dir. Stephen Layton) 2:35

Beethoven: Sonata in f major, op 5 #1 for cello and piano (Raphael Wallfisch, cello; John York, piano) 24:00

Gretchaninov: In Thy Kingdom (Holst Singers, dir. Stephen Layton; James Bowman, countertenor) 7:29

Hour Two

Holst: Brook Green Suite (London Festival Orchestra, dir. Ross Pople) 6:31

Verdi: Requiem, Part One (Anja Hyah-teros Harteros, soprano; Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Kaufmann, tenor; Rene Pape, bass; Orchestra e coro del teatro alla Scala; dir. Daniel Barenboim) 47:43

Hour Three

Verdi: Requiem, Part Two (Anja Harteros, soprano; Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Kaufmann, tenor; Rene Pape, bass; Orchestra e coro del teatro alla Scala; dir. Daniel Barenboim) 37:57

Rachmaninov: Prelude in G minor, op. 23 #5 (Sviatoslav Richter) 4:44

Bach: Orchestral Suite #3, Air on a G string (Vladimir Spivakov, violin; Moscow Virtuosi) 5:41

Schubert: Erlkonig (Murray Perahia) 4:28