Playlist for Thursday, June 12

You won't find many happy faces at U.S. gas stations these days. But back in the 1930s, Virgil Thomson thought a gas station would make a great setting for his new ballet Filling Station, about one evening's dramas large and small. Filling Station was the first all-American ballet: American music, design, choreography, setting - the works. And it was influential. Thomson's success emboldened another composer to try a ballet with an American theme, and Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid would be on stage by later that year. We hear Filling Station in the noon hour on GPB. No prices per gallon are specified.

11 AM
  • Schubert/Primrose: Litany for All Soul's Day: Adagio. Roberto Diaz, Robert Koenig. Naxos 8.557391.
  • Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor. Cardenes, Solow, Golabek. Delos 3056.
  • Debussy: Toccata from Pour le piano. Boris Berman. Chandos 9294.
  • Berlioz: Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet. Baltimore Sym, Zinman. Telarc 80606.
12 N
  • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Niklas Eklund, Swiss Baroque Soloists, Gabetta. Naxos 8.557755-56.
  • Respighi: The Pines of Rome. Berlin Phil, Karajan. DG 449 724.
  • Thomson: Filling Station (1938 ballet set at a gas station). Albany [NY] Sym, Miller. Albany 591.
1 PM
  • Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 314. Emanuel Pahud, Berlin Phil, Abbado. EMI 56365.
  • Zimbalist: Sarasateana. Roberto Diaz, Robert Koenig. Naxos 8.557391.
  • Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1. Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel. Telarc 80606.
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