Suppe Sunday

From high atop beautiful Lake Superior, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Franz von Suppé
Overtures by Suppé and Strauss. Angel  [1975]   Suppé, F. von. Light cavalry. Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna: Willi Boskovsky, conductor.
Beethoven's Wig – Stuck In The Saddle Again (Light Cavalry March, Suppe)  Beethoven's Wig 2: More Sing Along Symphonies
Felix Kubin – There is a Garden  – Suppe Für Die Nacht
Poet and peasant.  Morning, noon and night in Vienna  Boccaccio Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna: Willi Boskovsky, conductor.

Suppé overtures.Capitol. Pique dame.-- Jolly Fellows. --Jolly robbers  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Peter Kreuder, Leo Borchard, Erich Kleiber, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, conductors. 
William Control – The Raven  
Regina Hexaphone – The Forty-niner  – Into Your Sleeping Heart
Overtures. Mercury, [1960]  The beautiful Galatea. Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray, conductor. 
Die Schöne Galatea. The beautiful Galatea; operetta in 1 act. Vox, [195-?]   Elisabeth Roon, soprano; Waldemar Kmentt, Kurt Preger, tenors; Otto Wiener, bass; Vienna State Philharmonia; Hans Hagen, conductor; sung in German.
Highlights from An evening at the pops.  RCA Victor [1965]. Amparito roca, by Texidor.--  Selections from Fiddler on the roof, by Bock.--And I love her. A hard day's night, by McCartney.--Theme from The man from U.N.C.L.E., Big beat baroque, Theme from The munsters.--Farandole by Bizet.   Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor.

Prince Albert in a Can

From high atop beautiful downtown Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composers with Albert in their names.
Dead From The Neck Up. The only known footage of Scott Henderson & Stephen Dafoe in the studio from 1994.
Weird Al Yankovic, Phony Calls
Roussel, Albert Charles Paul,1869-1937.Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43: Suite no. 2. Angel, [1965] Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire, Paris.André Cluytens, conductor. 
Albert, Eugen d',1864-1932.Scherzo in F-sharp, op. 16, no. 2. RCA Red Seal,[1969]Earl Wild, piano. 
Roussel, Albert,1869-1937. Sinfonietta : op. 52, for string orchestra Philips,[1968?] I Musici. 
Roussel, Albert Charles Paul,1869-1937. Symphony no. 3, in G minor, op. 42. Symphony no. 4, in A major, op. 53. Epic [1966] Lamoreux Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor.
Albert, Eugen d', 1864-1932. Tiefland; Opernquerschnitt. Text [von] Guimera [und] Lothar. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, [1965] Starring Inge Borkh, soprano and Hans Hopf, tenor, with supporting soloists; Chor der Deutschen Oper, Berlin; Bamberger Symphoniker; Hans Löwlein, conductor. 
Ham, Albert W. Music from Bill Sargent's Harlow, original sound track. Music by Al Ham and Nelson Riddle. Warner Bros. Records, [1965] Principally for orchestra ; Nelson Riddle, conductor.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Pierrot Lunaire Melodrama, op. 21; three times seven poems from Albert Guiraud's Pierrot Lunaire. German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben] For narrator, piano, flute (and piccolo) clarinet (and bass clarinet) violin (and viola) and violoncello. Alice Howland, narrator, with instrumental ensemble; Herbert Zipper, conductor. 
Hague, Albert, 1920- Redhead. RCA Victor, [1959] An "original cast" recording, starring Gwen Verdon, with chorus and orchestra; Jay Blackton, conductor.
Albert, Eugen d'. Klavierstücke, op. 16. Scherzo. RCA Red Seal, [1969] Earl Wild, piano.
 

 

 

Martin Luther King

From high atop beautiful downtown King Salmon, Alaska, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Frank Martin. Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss >composer , who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands Born into a Huguenot family in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva, the youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school. At the age of nine, despite having received no musical instruction, he wrote some complete songs. He attended a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion when he was 12 and was deeply affected. Respecting his parents' wishes, he studied mathematics and physics for two years at Geneva University, but all the time he was also working at his composition and studying the piano, composition and harmony with his first music teacher Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1953), a Geneva composer and by that time a leading light of the city's musical scene. In the 1920s, Martin worked closely for a time with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze from whom he learned much about rhythm and musical theory. Between 1918 and 1926 Martin lived successively in Zurich, Rome and Paris. Compositions of the period show him searching for an authentic musical voice of his own. The Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1944/45 made Martin's international reputation and is the best known of his orchestral works. Capitol, 1960.Gloria Agostini, harp; Alberg Fuller, harpsichord; Mitchell Andrews, piano; with symphony orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
Five Ariel Songs, per coro a cappella, text of William Shakespeare from "The Tempest" (1950) RIAS-Kammerchor directed by Daniel Reuss. The RIAS Kammerchor is a professional chamber choir based in Berlin, Germany, and supported by the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public broadcasters Deutschlandradio (40%) and RBB (5%), the German Federal Republic (35%), and the State of Berlin (20%). Originally known as the Rundfunkchor des RIAS, the choir was founded in 1948 by the US-run German-language radio station Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor ("Broadcasting in the American Sector") – hence its name, which it has retained even though RIAS itself was wound up in 1993, following German reunification.
 Le vin herbé;[oratorio in three acts, based on three chapters of the novel Le roman de Tristan et Iseult by Joseph Bédier] Music Guild[1969] Starring Nata Tuscher, soprano, as Isolde; and Eric Tappy, tenor, as Tristan, with supporting soloists; first desk men of the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra; Victor Desarzens, conductor; the composer at the piano.
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Mass For Double Choir: Gloria  Credo The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Frank Martin
Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  Deux rapsodies.  Mercury [1961]   Robert Sprenckle, oboe; Francis Tursi, viola; Armand Basile, piano.  Recorded in the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, May, 1958. Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  A pagan poem; after Virgil. Op. 14. Capitol [1953?]   For orchestra, with piano, English horn, and 3 trumpets obbligati.   Paris Philharmonic Orchestra; Manuel Rosenthal, conductor.
Martin, Frank, 1890-1974. 6 [i. e. Sechs] Monologe aus Jedermann; Text von H. v. Hofmannsthal. 3. Fragmente aus der Oper Der Sturm; Text: Shakespeare/Schlegel. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Berliner Philharmoniker; the composer conducting.

John the Baptist

From high atop beautiful downtown Firenze, Italy, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, ( 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in 1661.
Isis (opera), LWV54 Le Jardin Secret Ensemble, Elizabeth Dobbin ,Soprano Assez de Pleurs Musique pour Mazarin! Le Jardin Secret Coro 2008 Te Deum Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet Salomé was originally released as a motion picture in 1922, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. The orchestral score is composed and conducted by Marc-Olivier Dupin
The London Baroque Ensemble conducted by Karl Haas. Decca, Marche pour le Régiment du Roi. Armide (1686). Musical Heritage Society,[1968] With the composer's Isis. Overture.--Duet of Armide and Hidraot.--Renaud's slumber.-Armide's monologue.--Passacaille. Nadine Sautereau and Jocelyne Chamonin, sopranos; André Mallabrera, tenor; Roger Soyer, bass; Philippe Caillard Chorus; Jean François Paillard Orchestra; Jean François Paillard, conductor.
Salome's last dance screenplay by Ken Russell ; producer, Penny Corke ; director, Ken Russell. Incorporates Oscar Wilde's play Salome translated by Vivian Russell. 1987. Director of photography, Harvey Harrison ; editor, Timothy Gee. Glenda Jackson, Startford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais Scott.

Epiphany

From high atop beautiful downtown Three Points, Arizona, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Gian Carlo  Menotti . Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
Amahl and the night visitors RCA Victor [1964] Cast of the NBC Opera Company,
December 1963 television production, with Kurt Yaghjian, boy soprano, as Amahl; Herbert Grossman, conductor.
It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Epiphany– Night Castle
Arturo Toscanini – Roman Festivals: Epiphany Ottorino  Respighi – Italian Orchestral Music
Tallis Scholars – Plainchant: Antiphon for First Vespers, Epiphany Nicholas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) – Nicolas Gombert: Magnificats 5-8
For my true love. Capitol [1958] songs by Falla, Fauré, Dowland, Mignone, Ovalle, J. P. Martini, A. Scarlatti, and J. S. Bach, principally with guitar acc., and lute selections from works by Dowland, R. de Visée, V. Galilei, and J. S. Bach. Salli Terri, mezzo-soprano; Laurindo Almeida, guitar; Martin Ruderman, flute.
Liebermann, Rolf, 1910- Concerto for jazz band and symphony orchestra. RCA Victor[1955] Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor.