Steven Wilson again??
Category Archives: WGOM
Friko – Get Numb to It!
Los Campesinos! – Here’s to the Fourth Time!
Lankum – On a Monday Morning
Cults – Crybaby
Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
Looks like I get a bonus day!
Performance with eighth blackbird, February 5, 2011.
Gustav Holst – The Planets
Enough of that short stuff! This is another longtime favorite, and in a full circle moment, it's played by the same orchestra as my first piece of the week. Thanks, all, for having me!
February 2023
Carl Orff – O Fortuna
If you don't feel awake yet, I bet this will do the trick!
Reading more about this piece, I was quite surprised to learn that it was first staged in June 1937. I had somehow assumed it was much older than that.
Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
What's not to love about this song?!
I was quite taken with this conductor, Nicolò Foron, and it turns out that this video is from the finals of the 2023 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, which he won. Hurrah!
André Jolivet – Fantasie-Caprice
I know the question on everyone's minds has been . . . will Pepper play anything under 10 minutes this week? You are in luck, because this twentieth century flute piece, which my high school self was quite taken with, comes in well under that mark.
Hélène Boulègue, flute
François Dumont, piano