Celebrating Sir Simon Rattle's Birthday!
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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(Sir Simon Rattle (Simon Fowler)
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Airs weekdays at 7PM on 93.3 FM
Sir Simon Rattle is celebrating his 50th birthday today, and so are we! His conducting skills will be much in evidence this evening, so stay tuned.
Carl Nielsen’s “Pan and Syrinx” is our first Rattle offering; he conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony in this brief pastoral for orchestra, based on the story from Ovid’s “Metamorphosis.” A bit later we hear Schoenberg’s arrangement of the Bach Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne,” with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. At the top of our second hour is the Takacs Quartet, whom we have been featuring as we remind you of their perusal of the entire Beethoven Quartet series at Lincoln Center this month. We give you their reading of the Beethoven “Razumovsky No. 3.”
We promised more Sir Simon Rattle, and here he is conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder.” Soprano Karita Mattila, mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter, tenors Thomas Moser and Philip Langridge, and bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff as the Speaker are the stellar soloists in this song cycle, begun when Schoenberg was only 25.
Sir Simon Rattle is celebrating his 50th birthday today, and so are we! His conducting skills will be much in evidence this evening, so stay tuned.
Carl Nielsen’s “Pan and Syrinx” is our first Rattle offering; he conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony in this brief pastoral for orchestra, based on the story from Ovid’s “Metamorphosis.” A bit later we hear Schoenberg’s arrangement of the Bach Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne,” with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. At the top of our second hour is the Takacs Quartet, whom we have been featuring as we remind you of their perusal of the entire Beethoven Quartet series at Lincoln Center this month. We give you their reading of the Beethoven “Razumovsky No. 3.”
We promised more Sir Simon Rattle, and here he is conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder.” Soprano Karita Mattila, mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter, tenors Thomas Moser and Philip Langridge, and bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff as the Speaker are the stellar soloists in this song cycle, begun when Schoenberg was only 25.
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