Midday Music Tuesday 10/7/08

Hi, all. For details on concerts mentioned on air, see Midday Music's weekly Classical Calendar. There are orchestral goings-on in LaGrange, Augusta, Atlanta and Roswell, plus opera in Atlanta.

I'll be with you Wednesday too, and then our Savannah crew hosts Thursday's Midday Music and Alan Cooke in Augusta takes requests on Friday.

11 AM
  • Lully: The Orchestra of the Sun King. Le Concert des Nations, Savall. Alia Vox 9842.
  • Bach: Overture in the French Style, BWV 831. Joyce Yang. Harmonia Mundi 907405.
  • D'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air. Schapiro, San Francisco Sym, Monteux (recorded in 1941). BMG RCA 9026 61888.
12 N
  • Pasculli: Grand Concerto on Themes from Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, for oboe and piano. Ivan Paisov, Natalia Shcherbakova. Naxos 8.570567.
  • Mendelssohn: "Italian" Symphony (No. 4 in A major). New Philharmonia Orch, Muti. EMI 81788.
  • Busnois: Motet "Incomprehensibilia/Praeter rerum ordinem." Orlando Consort. Harmonia Mundi 907333.
1 PM
  • Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Francesca da Rimini. Baltimore Sym Orch, Zinman. Telarc 80378.
  • Rota: Bassoon Concerto. Christopher Millard, CBC Vancouver Sym, Bernardi. CBC 5185.
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