2-10-24 Music in Maryland…A Quick Tribute To Leontyne Price and Seiji Ozawa plus the BSO Playing Gershwin that isn’t Rhapsody in Blue!
Leontyne Price turned 97 today and though we paid tribute to her on the Opera Preview her recording of Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 is stunning. Also we are playing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto because everyone else is playing Rhapsody in Blue in honor of the centennial! Finally a couple of Seiji Ozawa recordings in tribute to his many decades of great music making. He passed earlier in the week…he was 88.
6:00 PM 48468
Gabriel Faure Apres un Reve (After a Dream) Op 7/1 DG/Archiv 439152
COND Seiji Ozawa SAY gee Oh ZOW uh
ORCH Boston Symphony Orchestra
SOLO Jules Eskin, cello
3:16 C 1 11-11
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6:04 PM 6062
Samuel Barber Knoxville:Summer of 1915 RCA/BMG 68153
COND Thomas Schippers Thomas Shippers like it looks
ORCH New Philharmonia Orchestra
SOLO Leontyne Price, soprano LAY ahn teen Price
16:18 C 8 1-1
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6:21 PM 1290
George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F Erato 19571
COND David Zinman David ZIHN mihn
ORCH Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
SOLO Helene Grimaud, piano
32:38 C 1 1-3
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6:55 PM 159
Carl Orff Carmina Burana RCA/BMG 63590
COND Seiji Ozawa SAY gee Oh ZOW uh
ORCH Boston Symphony Orchestra
SOLO New England ConservatoryChorus
SOLO and Children’s Chorus
SOLO Evelyn Mandac, soprano
SOLO Stanley Kolk, tenor
SOLO Sherrill Milnes, baritone SHEHR ihl MILHNZ
63:05 C 1 1-25
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