Hear Arvo Part's most recorded work, "Fratres," performed by the Icelandic chamber group Isafold.
There's also music for piano, looping, and strings by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi. Plus, selections from the film score "The Merchant of Venice" by English composer Jocelyn Pook, and much more.
PROGRAM # 2812, New “Orchestral” Music from Europe (First aired on Wednesday 6/11/08)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Ludovico Einaudi |
Divenire |
Divenire [6:30] |
Ponderosa #475 8102 ** www.ludovicoeinaudi.com* |
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Jocelyn Pook |
The Merchant of Venice |
Blessing of the Boat [2:00] How Sweet the Moonlight [4:30] Ghetto [2:00] Synagogue Cantors [1:30] |
Decca #475 6367** www.deccaclassics.com* |
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Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros |
Angels of the Universe |
Approach / Dream [3:00] Memory [2:00] |
Fat-Cat # FATOST-CD01 www.fat-cat.co.uk |
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Isafold |
All Sounds To Silence Come |
A. Part: Fratres [11:30] |
12 Tonar #003 www.isafold.net* |
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"How Sweet the Moonlight" sounds like it could have been written in Shakespeare's time because it comes from The Merchant of Venice, last scene. It's the same text that Vaughan Williams set in the Serenade to Music.
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