Cereal Music playlist for 06/09/2014

Program: 
Cereal Music
  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilych
-
"The Seasons"
from
  • Ruth Laredo, piano
(
  • Nonesuch
)
  • Stravinsky, Igor
-
"Le Baiser de la fée"
from
  • Stravinsky conductor; Columbia Symphony Orchestra
(
  • Columbia
)
  • Mussorgsky, Modest
-
"Songs and Dances of Death"
from
  • Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; St. Petersburg Philharmonic
(
  • Warner Classics
)
  • Shostakovich, Dimitri
-
"The Song of the Forests", Op. 81
from
  • Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Petrov (bass), Moscow State Boys Choir, Yurlov Russian Choir, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Yurlov (conductor), USSR Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Ivanov (conductor)
(
  • Russian Disc
)

A look at songs and piano works by Tchaikovsky, which influenced Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la fée". Then, vocal works by Mussourgsky that strongly influenced Shostakovich's 14th Symphony.

Department: 
Classical