Afternoon Classical playlist for 07/11/2014

Program: 
Afternoon Classical
  • Ives, Charles
-
From the Steeples and the Mountains
from
  • London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble; Christopher Larkin, conductor
(
  • Helios/Hyperion
)
  • Mahler, Gustav
-
Symphony No. 7
from
  • Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Hermann Scherchen, conductor
(
  • Westminster
)
  • Barber, Samuel
-
Mutations from Bach
from
  • London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble; Christopher Larkin, conductor
(
  • Helios/Hyperion
)

It's a brassy sort of day, perhaps. We heard Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in a recording from the late 1950's, to celebrate the composer's 154th birthday earlier this week. Bookended to that were American works for brass ensemble from Ives and Barber, the latter of which shares a common melodic ancestor with Bach's Cantata No. 23, which followed in Bach Hour.

Department: 
Classical