Terrance McKnight
Playlist For February 11, 2013
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07:01 PM
Four Seasons: L'inverno, (Winter) Op. 8/4
Antonio Vivaldi
- Gil Shaham, violin
- Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 439933
length: 08:36- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
07:11 PMNow sleeps the crimson petal
Roger Quilter
- Paul Robeson, bass-baritone
Angel/EMI 15586
length: 02:24- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
07:14 PMDeep River
Traditional
- H.T. Burleigh, arranger
- Paul Robeson, bass-baritone
Omega 3007
length: 02:07- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
07:18 PMOtello: Ave Maria and Final Scene from Act IV
Giuseppe Verdi
- Erich Kunzel, arranger
- Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
- Erich Kunzel, conductor
Telarc 80364
length: 05:23- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
07:25 PMPetite Symphonie
Charles Gounod
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
- Christopher Hogwood, conductor
London/Decca 430231
length: 20:00- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
07:46 PMGrand Fantasy on Polish Airs in A, Op. 13
Frederic Chopin
- Garrick Ohlsson, piano
- Warsaw Philharmonic
- Kazimierz Kord, conductor
Arabesque 26702
length: 14:53- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
08:02 PMMozart en route (A Little Travel Music)
Aaron Jay Kernis
- Aaron Berofsky, violin
- David Harding, viola
- Tom Rosenberg, cello
New Albion 83
length: 03:19- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
08:06 PMSymphony No. 36 in C, K. 425, "Linz"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Philips 422419
length: 41:44- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
08:50 PMOverture to 'King Lear'
Mily Balakirev
- BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
Chandos 241-29
length: 10:39- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
09:01 PMShenandoah
Traditional
- Brandon Ridenour, arranger
- Canadian Brass
Opening Day 7382
length: 05:54- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
09:10 PMConcerto in B Minor for Cello, Op. 104
Antonin Dvorak
- Jacqueline Du Pre, cello
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Angel/EMI 67341
length: 42:11- Buy Track via ArkivMusic
09:54 PMIntermezzo No. 4 in E, Op. 116
Johannes Brahms
- Valery Afanassiev, piano
Denon 78906
length: 05:10- Buy Track via ArkivMusic


Comments [1]
I have always admired Paul Robeson's wonderful, deep, full bass. However, even as I listen with awe to his beautiful voice, I can't forget that the man was deeply flawed. And his deepest flaw was that he admired Joseph Stalin, a man who enslaved millions of people, who was responsible for the deaths by starvation of millions of Ukrainians from an artificially created famine in 1932-1933, and who put to death millions more from political purges and his resettlement policies of various nationalities. That a son of a former slave did not see the hypocrisy in his admiration for such a butcher, and accepted a "Peace" prize from him astounds me...
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