“American Dances” and “This Place is a Zoo” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 you’ll hear a piano 4-hand version of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.  At 8:00 on “Early Music Now” you’ll hear music by Josquin and others that mimics the sound of animals.

Sunday August 26: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-48)

American Dances

Mark O’Connor (b. 1961, USA): F.C. Jig for Violin and Viola; Chad Hoopes, violin; Matt Lipman, viola

George Tsontakis (b. 1951, USA): Selected Knick-Knacks for Violin and Viola

Kristin Lee, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola

Barber: Souvenirs for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 28. Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano; Wu Han, Piano

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue for Piano, Four Hands, arr. Henry Levine. Alessio Bax, Piano; Wu Han, Piano

AND

Early Music Now with Sara Schneider (EMN 18-09)

This Place is a Zoo

Dogs, horses, donkeys, frogs, and even a flea- they all get their day in the sun on today's program.

John Dowland: Frog Galliard Paul O’Dette

Georg Philipp Telemann: Violin Concerto in A Major “Die Relinge” Musica Antiqua Köln/Reinhard Goebel

Dieterich Buxtehude: Quemadmodum desiderat cervus La Fenice and Hans-Jörg Mammel, tenor

Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan The Consort of Musicke

Giovanni Battista Riccio: Canzon in A major ‘La Rosignola’ Frans Brüggen, recorder

Anon.: Sweet Suffolk Owl The Holbein Consort

Anon.: Squirrel’s Toy & Squirrel’s Lament The Toronto Consort

Claudio Monteverdi: O Rossignuol Sex Chordae Consort of Viols

Anon.: Sumer is icumin in The Hilliard Ensemble   Anon.: Orientis Partibus Early Music New York/F. Renz

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier La Puce Gustav Leonhardt

Heinrich Isaac: Der Hund Brisk Recorder Quartet

Josquin des Prez: El Grillo The Hilliard Ensemble Josquin

Thoinot Arbeau: The Horse’s Bransle The Forbury consort

Johann Hermann Schein: All wilden Tier & die Vöglein Singen Cantus Cölln

John Bull: Bull’s Goodnight Gustav Leonhardt