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TTF Program 337 January 9, 2021 Hour One Thomas Crecquillon: Ecce, ego mitto vos (The Choir of The Church of the Advent, Boston; dir. Edith Ho) 7:41 Muzio Clementi: Andante and variations for harp (Claudio Antonelli) 5:09 Mahler: Selections #7-8 from a setting of folk poems, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Anne Sofie Von Otter, mezzosoprano; Thomas Queasthoff, baritone; Berlin Philharmonic, dir. Claudio Abbado) 6:00 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts" (BBC Symphony Orchestra, dir. Sakari Oramo) 34:00 Hour Two Schubert: Symphony #1 (BBC Philharmonic, dir. Juanjo Mena) 26:24 Liszt: Sonata in B minor (Zee Zee, piano) 27:48 Hour Three Tchaikovsky: Sixteen selections from Fifty Russian Songs, piano for four hands (Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow) 9:00 Handel: Concerto in f major for flute, string orchestra, and continuo (Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; dir. Jean-Francois Paillard) 7:49 Arum Katchaturian: Piano Concerto in D-flat major, op. 38 (Constantine Orbelian, piano; Scottish National Orchestra, dir. Neeme Jarvi 33:00
On todayâs program, a lot of new music just shelved in TTF library: a piano concerto by Armen Katchaturian, a symphony from Schubert, one of the great works from Stravinsky, vocal music from Mahler, a sonata from Liszt, and piano selections for four hands by Tchaikovsky.