Olympic Overtures: Playlist
Friday, July 27, 2012
Below is the complete playlist for Olympic Overtures, a program about the history of music and the Olympics.
Leo Arnaud – Bugler’s Dream
L'Olympiad (pastiche) – excerpt by Giuseppe Sarti
Venice Baroque Orchestra; Karina Gauvin, soprano
Samaras – Olympic Anthem
Suk – Into a New Life
Rudolph Simonson – Symphony No. 2 “Hellas”
Strauss – Olympic Hymn
Glass – The Olympian
Glass – Orion
Michael Torke – Javelin
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6
“Barcelona” – By Monserrat Cabelle and Freddie Mercury
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Kent Nagano, conductor; from the 1998 Nagano Olympics
Lang Lang - Yellow River Concerto
John Williams – Olympic Fanfare
John Williams – Summon the Heroes


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