Compact Discoveries 84: More Musical Cities
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:59:00
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The music includes Jacques Brel singing Brussels... Von Suppé's Morning, Noon and Night Overture performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal conducted by Charles Dutoit... Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, conducted by Yoav Talmi, and Alain Lefèvre, the piano soloist... The traditional Russian song Moscow Nights arranged for the Don Cossack Choir, conducted by Serge Jaroff... André Mathieu's Concerto de Québec performed by pianist Alain LeFèvre with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec conducted by Yoav Talmi... Fritz Kreisler's arrangement of Londonderry Air performed by Kennedy, violin, and John Lenehan, piano... and French singer Barbara's Göttingen.
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The music includes Jacques Brel singing Brussels... Von Suppé's Morning, Noon and Night Overture performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal conducted by Charles Dutoit... Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, conducted by Yoav Talmi, and Alain Lefèvre, the piano soloist... The traditional Russian song Moscow Nights arranged for the Don Cossack Choir, conducted by Serge Jaroff... André Mathieu's Concerto de Québec performed by pianist Alain LeFèvre with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec conducted by Yoav Talmi... Fritz Kreisler's arrangement of Londonderry Air performed by Kennedy, violin, and John Lenehan, piano... and French singer Barbara's Göttingen.
Transcript
Program 84
"More Musical Cities"
MUSIC: clip from Jacque Brel singing Bruxelles [Universal 980 839-6, CD 2, track 3] [under the following]
Welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman, and for the next hour we’re going to explore music inspired by the cities of Vienna, Warsaw, Moscow, Québec, Londonderry and Göttingen. The music in the background right now was inspired by Brussels. It was written and sung by a native son named Jacques Brel.
MUSIC: fades out
This is the fifth and final hour in a series that I am devoting to music inspired by cities. The first was Paris; then came London. The third was Rome, and the fourth was New York.
We begin this hour, appropriately enough, with an overture inspired by morning, noon and night in Vienna. In fact it is called the Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Overture, and it is by Franz von Suppé.
Von Suppé lived from 1819 u...
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