This weeks show looks at the notion of respectability. Host Terrance McKnight discusses societal benchmarks that have evolved over time, and pairs them with music.
The musical timeline covers Monteverdi's high renaissance tribute to a Pope, Bach's formulaic musical gauntlet, and a respectable arrangement of William Grant Still's spiritual setting Here's One.
Playlist:
Liccoronazione di Poppea, Pur ti Miro
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra members
Ivor Bolton, conductor
Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano
David Daniels, countertenor
Farao Classics
Jubilo (The Scent of Demorcracy)
Wynton Marsalis
Lncoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
CBS/Sony
Concerto in C Minor
J.S. Bach
Alison Balsom, trumpet
Colm Carey, organ
Angel/EMI
Das Jahr: January and February
Fanny Mendelssohn
Sarah Rothenberg
Arabesque
Ballade, Op.6
Amy Beach
Kirsten Johnson, piano
Guild
Black and Blue
Waller, Razaf, Brooks
Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocals
Carroll Dickerson, violin, director
Dieques Swing
Air and Gavotte
Arthur Foote
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz
Naxos
Exhortation
Will Marion Cook
Paul Robeson, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brown, piano
Angel/EMI
Here’s One
William Grant Still
Ruth Hamilton, contralto
Stan Strickland, saxophone
Vivian Taylor, piano
Cambria
Krakowiak –Concert Rondo in F, Op14
Warsaw Philharmonic
Kazimierz Kord, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Arabesque
Seven Fugues for Piano
Edvard Grieg
Mikhail Pletnev
DG
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About All Ears with Terrance McKnight
All Ears with Terrance McKnight is a weekly show about musical discovery. Covering a wide range of styles, genres and periods, the show celebrates the diverse musical passions of its host, Terrance McKnight, as well as occasional guests -- including performers, composers, choreographers, critics and others. As music and ideas are experienced side by side, the power of music to transform is revealed and celebrated.
Hosted by Terrance McKnight
Comments [4]
Nice to hear from you all
The trumpet concerto is BWV 974 (after Marcello)
You ended the episode with an odd worry about whether you were giving us correct information. On that front, you're fine (if we're interested, we'll go to the library, and if you turn out to have been wrong, we'll forgive you because you got us interested). And more to the point, you're a good classical DJ because between the pieces, you talk like a normal human, and not too long. I listen often to a certain classical station in Los Angeles, because their selection of music is pretty good (and I'm from there), but good Lord the announcers are unctuous. No such worries here.
The trumpet concerto sounded like the Marcello concerto in C minor, not Bach as listed.
Beautiful program.
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