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Compact Discoveries 193: Still More Still
(00:59:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 192: More Still
(00:58:40)
From: Fred Flaxman
Three more works by American composer William Grant Still on this second program in a series of three devoted to his music.
Compact Discoveries 191: William Grant Still
(00:58:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 190: Rachel Barton Pine
(00:57:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 189: Video Game Music
(00:58:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 188: Michel Legrand
(00:58:50)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 187: "Artur Lemba"
(00:59:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 186: The Best of the Best of Karl Jenkins
(00:58:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Compact Discoveries 185: Lee Actor
(00:59:00)
From: Fred Flaxman
Two melodious, rhythmic, colorfully orchestrated concertos and a "Dance Rhapsody" by this multi-talented, very much alive-and-kicking American composer.
Compact Discoveries 184: Jesus Guridi
(00:57:30)
From: Fred Flaxman
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Piece Description
Producer/Guide Fred Flaxman uses a big mixture of styles, periods and instrumentation to illustrate "Winter" in music. Included is music by Lully, Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael, Julie Styne and Sammy Cahn, Ronald Binge, Franz Liszt, William Alwyn, Selim Palmgren, Claude Debussy, Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith, Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Performing artists include Daniel Barenboim, Bing Crosby with Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, Chanticleer, Natalie Cole with the Vienna Symphony, and bamboo flutist Chen Yue. Songs include In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening; Baby, It's Cold Outside;Let It Snow!; and Winter Wonderland.
Broadcast History
world premiere
Transcript
Program 153
"Winter"
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman. And this is “Winter!”
MUSIC: Lully: excerpt from Isis: Scène du froid: L’hiver qui nous tourmente performed by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie [Warner Classics 2564 69667-4, CD2, track 14]
Brrrrrrr! That’s the coldest music I ever heard! But it’s very appropriate to the season. It is called L’hiver qui nous tourmente, which is French for Winter which torments us. And that is, in turn, from Scène du froid -- Cold Scenes -- from Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera Isis. That little excerpt is from a Warner Classics album recorded by Les Arts Florissant conducted by William Christie.
I couldn’t think of a more appropriate introduction to the “cold” section of this hour of “Winter” music.
MUSIC: Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael: excerpt from In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening...
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Timing and Cues
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
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| see transcript | see transcript | see transcript. | see transcript | 00:00 |
Additional Credits
funding credit at end of program to Isabel and Marvin Leibowitz.
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S Corley
Posted on February 04, 2009 at 07:32 PM | Permalink
Warm regards
Well done, Fred!
From Christiane & Simon