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Programme for 3 March 2004

2004  -  ANNIVERSARIES

Once every year, a programme is dedicated to important composer birth/death anniversaries in multiples of 50 years, i.e. 1954, 1904, 1854, 1804... etc.  -  and 2004 is a bumper year...  so much so that there are too many to fit into one programme.  Therefore, a number of composer anniversaries will be covered during some of the other 2004 programmes, as follows:

• Johann Strauss (Snr) ~ 1804-49  (See programme for 7 January)
  

• Dmitry Kabalevsky ~ 1904-87  (See programme for 11 February)
  

• Leoš Janáček ~ 1854-1928  (See programme for 2 June)
  

• Mikhail Glinka ~ 1804-57  (See programme for 22 September)
  

• Antonín Dvorák ~ 1841-1904  (See programme for 17 November)
  

• Engelbert Humperdinck ~  1854-1921  (See programme for 1 December)
  

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber ~ 1644-1704  (See programme for 15 December)
  

Composers anniversaries not covered (mainly because I don't have any recordings of their music in my collection) include:

• Francisco de la Torre ~ ca.1460-1504
  

• Claudio Merulo ~ 1533-1604
  

• Luca Marenzio ~ ca.1554-99
  

• Samuel Scheidt ~ 1587-1654
  

• George Muffat ~ 1653-1704
  

• Servaas de Koninck ~ 1654-1701
  

• Vincent Lübeck ~ 1654-1740
  

• Karl Heinrich Graun ~ 1704-59
  

• Johann Adam Hiller ~ 1728-1804
  

• Ivan Evstaf'evich Khandoshkin ~ 1746-1804
  

• Vicente Martín y Soler ~ 1754-1806
  

• Louise Farrenc ~ 1804-75
  

• Hendrika van Tussenbroek ~ 1854-1935
  

• George Whitefield Chadwick ~ 1854-1931
  

• Bernard Zweers ~ 1854-1924
  

• Edgar (Pierre Joseph) Tinel ~ 1854-1912
  

• Jean (Jules Aimable) Roger-Ducasse ~ 1873-1954
  

• Wilhelm Furtwängler ~ 1886-1954
  

• Karol Rathaus ~ 1895-1954
  

• Juan Vicente Lecuna ~ 1899-1954
  

• Karl Ahrendt ~ 1904-93
  

• Goffredo Petrassi ~ 1904-2003
  

• Géza Frid ~ 1904-89
  

• Nikos Skalkottas ~ 1904-49
  

• Hermann Schröder ~ 1904-84
  

• Luigi Dallapiccola ~ 1904-75
  

• Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov ~ 1904-72
  

• Joaquín Nin Culmell ~ 1908-2004
  

• Judith Weir ~ 1954-
  

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PROGRAMME

John Philip Sousa  (1854-1932)

The Bride Elect  -  Ballet: People Who Live In Glass Houses

The Champagnes  ~  The Rhine Wines  ~  White Rock and Psyches  ~  The Whiskies: Scotch, Irish,

Bourbon and Rye  ~  Convention of the Cordials, Wines and Whiskies

People Who Live In Glass Houses was written in 1909, but parts of the work were used as bellet music for a revival of the operetta The Bride Elect in 1923.  The music celebrates the countires from which a series of drinks come.

The Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra is led by Keith Brion

Richard Addinsell  (1904-77)

Warsaw Concerto

From the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941)

Philip Fowke (piano)

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is led by Proinnsías Ó Duinn

Franco Alfano  (1876-1954)

Risurrezione  -  Dio pietoso

Recorded on 14 November 1950.  Risurrezione received its first performance 100 years ago on 30 November 1904.

Magda Olivero (soprano)

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Radio Italiana is led by Alfredo Simonetto

Alfredo Catalani  (1854-93)

A sera

A sera became much more widely known when it metamorphosed into the prelude to the final act of La Wally, the opera with which Catalani had his greatest success..

The Orchestra da Camera di Santa Cecilia is led by Alessio Vlad

Marc-Antoine Charpentier  (1643-1704)

Te Deum, H. 146

Introduction  ~  Pleni sunt coeli  ~  Te per orbem terrarum  ~  Tu, devicto mortis aculeo  ~

Aeterna fac  ~  Fiat misericordia  ~  In te, Domine, speravi

Mary Beverly (soprano);  Kevin Smith (counter-tenor);  James Griffett (tenor);  David Thomas (bass)

Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick

La Grande Ecurie & la Chambre du Roy is led by Jean-Claude Malgoire

Charles Ives  (1874-1954)

Symphony No. 2

i  Andante moderato

ii Allegro

iiiAdagio cantabile

ivLento maestoso

v Allegro molto vivace

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra is led by Kenneth Schermerhorn

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