Cereal Music playlist for 03/31/2016

Program: 
Cereal Music
  • Miklós Rósza
-
Concert Overture, Op. 26
from
  • Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra and Miklós Rósza conducting his own compositions
(
  • Varèse Sarabande
)
  • Miklós Rósza
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Three Hungarian Sketches, Op. 14
from
  • Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra and Miklós Rósza conducting his own compositions
(
  • Varèse Sarabande
)
  • Miklós Rósza
-
Theme, Variations and Finale, Op. 13
from
  • Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra and Miklós Rósza conducting his own compositions
(
  • Varèse Sarabande
)
  • Igor Stravinksy
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Oedipus Rex: Opera-Oratorio in Two Acts after Sophocles, Text by Jean Cocteau, and conducted by the composer Igor Stravinsky
from
  • George Shirley as Oedipus, Shirley Verrett as Jocasta, Donald Gramm as Creon, John Reardon as Messenger, Loren Driscoll as Shepherd, Chester Watson as Tiresias, John Westbrook as Narrator, and Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera Society of Washington
(
  • Columbia Masterworks
)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
-
Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI:48
from
  • Carolyn Jones (Piano)
(
  • Magnetawan Recordings
)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
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Variations in F Minor, Hob.XVII:6
from
  • Carolyn Jones (Piano)
(
  • Magnetawan Recordings
)

In the first half of this Cereal Music program, we explored recordings of two composers conducting their own compositions: Miklós Rósza and Igor Stravinsky. Then, in the second half of the program, we had a birthday tribute in honor of Franz Joseph Haydn who was born today March 31st in 1732.

Department: 
Classical