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Tag Archives: classical
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
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – Metacosmos
I was taken with another Þorvaldsdóttir composition recently that doesn't seem to exist as a live video anywhere, but my searching led me to this one.
January 31, 2019
Fun fact: I got to visit Harpa Concert Hall ever so briefly on my first day in Iceland.
And here's a trailer for the piece I'd wanted to play:
Philip Glass – Mad Rush
I do also love me a good Philip Glass piece. This one is played by the man himself.
Montreal, March 7, 2015
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
Since I last took a turn as guest DJ, I've been listening to a lot of classical music. So maybe that's what I'll do this week? We'll see...
June 26, 2020
This one is a longtime favorite; I think I actually had it on cassette back in the day!
Max Richter – On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy)
DG bait.