Favoriting A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from July 28, 2014 Favoriting

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Favoriting July 28, 2014: A440, Op. 3, No 8: 1786-Prague-1968, Opus 28s by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven & Barber

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 "Prague" (1786)   Favoriting       0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Karel Husa  Music for Prague 1968   Favoriting Music from Six Continents  Vienna Modern Masters    0:06:33 (Pop-up)
 
Felix Mendelssohn  Fantasia in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 MWV U92 "Sonata Eccossaise" I. Con moto agitato (1830)   Favoriting Mendelssohn: 7 Characteristic Pieces Op. 7 / Fantasia Op. 28  Naxos  Benjamin Frith, piano  0:18:17 (Pop-up)
Frederic Chopin  24 Preludes, Op. 28, No. 6 in B Minor, Lento assai (1839)   Favoriting The Art of Interpretation  Sony  Rudolf Serkin, piano  0:24:05 (Pop-up)
Ludwig van Beethoven  Sonata for Piano, No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale" II. Andante   Favoriting Beethoven Sonatas Op. 14, 26 & 28  Sony BMG Music Entertainment   Murray Perahia, piano  0:24:37 (Pop-up)
Samuel Barber  Souvenirs, Op. 28, VI. Galop (1953)   Favoriting Souvenirs & Recollections: Early and Late Piano Music  Allegro  Original piano 4 hands version, as written for the ballet. Giampaolo Nuti & Daniela de Santis - pianos  0:34:11 (Pop-up)
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Huang Ruo (b. 1976)  The Three Tenses (2005)   Favoriting Prism Quartet / Music from China: The Singing Gobi Desert  Innova  performed by PRSIM saxophone quartet and Chen Yihan, pipa  0:38:15 (Pop-up)
Eric Gaudibert (b. 1936)  Jardins d'Est   Favoriting 1994 Geneva Intenational Conducting Competition    With a young Alan Gilbert taking first place! 2 decades later, he's artistic director of the New York Philharmonic!  0:49:49 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  8:05pm
P-90:

Welcome to the bridge, Commander Ryker.
  8:08pm
gpo:

The nature of things in not clockwork - I'm one week behind schedule thats Ms Bethany's rye comment on it
And a gem for tonight for Ms Bethany's ear: The Unique hides its essense by not repeating itself
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Bethany Ryker:

@P-90Haven't got the 'Commander Ryker' thing in a while - Next Generation throwback!

Hello all!
Avatar 8:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

Music for Prague 1968...as well as Music for Ukraine 2014...

Hi Bethany and all Paraders!
  8:12pm
bunyan:

I see Husa is a Pulitzer Prize winner and yet another student of La Grand Nadia...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kick Out the Jams !...you academic musiclovers...you...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

[...there *is* a certain tendency for when you say 'Prog'(-ressive Rock) to a Classical head - they think you mean....yerknow - Prague...]
Avatar 8:17pm
Matt from Springfield:

Can you play in "Prague" time signatures??..
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Matt from Springfield:

28th's the charm!
  8:20pm
oh:

don't bore us get to the chorus
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Bethany Ryker:

I like the "opus-a-day" idea, but it limits to the first 31 pieces in a composer's catalog. Fun place to start and explore, however!
Avatar 8:21pm
ranjit:

opus-a-day for a year? how many composers got past 365 opuses? (opi? opioids?)
  8:22pm
P-90:

There's a cocktail I used to make called the "Prague Rocgue".
Trying to remember the recipe...
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Matt from Springfield:

@oh How come? Are you bored with the chord?...
Avatar 8:26pm
ranjit:

Is the chorine boring?
Avatar 8:30pm
Bethany Ryker:

Beethoven. Genius. Never gets old.
Avatar 8:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

"Ludwig Van" for all Ages!

And Murray Perahia, nice!
  8:33pm
P-90:

@Bethany: Leonard Bernstein gave a whole series of lectures elaborating on that very point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& Ludwig so interesting as a historically transitional figure - no?...just as the dedication of the Eroica transitioned : p ...
  8:35pm
JakeGould:

Hello! How are all.
Avatar 8:39pm
Matt from Springfield:

Hello Jake!

Chinese strings with saxophones, interesting idea!
Avatar 8:58pm
Matt from Springfield:

Another all too brief installment of A440. At least it delivers sonatas to us before Moonlight hits.

Thanks Bethany! Have a good night everybody!
  8:59pm
P-90:

This hour FLIES by! It's not enough.
Thanks, DJ Bethany, "see' you next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...to be entertained, enriched & schooled all @ once
- & commercial-free
...is that so much to ask - ?!
- Thx !
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