Thanks to listeners in Omena, Petoskey, Interlochen, Northport, Seattle (WA), and many other places for your requests this week.
1. Richard Wagner, instrumental music from Das Rheingold; Lorin Maazel/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
2. Erik Bergman, Burla for orchestra; Jussi Jalas/Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
3. Randall Thompson, Frostiana (selections); Richard Auldon Clark/Manhattan Chamber Orchestra/New York Choral Society
4. Edward Elgar, Nimrod from the Enigma Variations; Giuseppe Sinopoli/Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus; Richard Hickox/London Symphony Orchestra
6. Eric Idle, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”; Monty Python’s Spamalot original Broadway cast recording
7. Charles-Marie Widor, Toccata from Organ Symphony no. 5; performed by the composer
8. Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1 & Hubert Parry, Jerusalem; Paul Daniel/English Northern Philharmonia/Leeds Festival Chorus
9. George Gershwin “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess; Leontyne Price
10. Alexander Borodin, Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor; Robert Shaw/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
11. Ernst von Dohnanyi, Ruralia Hungarica; Mark Kosower/Jee-Won Oh
12. Sartori & Quarantotto, Con te partiro; Andrea Bocelli/Sarah Brightman
13. Rodgers & Hammerstein, “I Have Confidence” from the Sound of Music; original motion picture soundtrack
14. Franz Schubert, Ständchen; Julianne Baird/Andrew Willis
15. Otto Klemperer, Merry Waltz; Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orchestra
16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano sonata no. 16, arr. Edvard Grieg; Nikolai Lugansky/Vadim Rudenko
17. Johann Sebastian Bach, Oboe Concerto in A major (second and third movements); Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Douglas Boyd
18. Leonard Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (selections); composer conducting the New York Philharmonic
19. Johannes Brahms, Intermezzos in A minor and in A major (op. 118); Jorge Federico Osorio
20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano concerto no. 8, third movement; Claudio Abbado/London Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Serkin
21. Traditional, Craggy Knob; Madeline MacNeil
22. Norman Dello Joio, Satiric Dances, movements 1 & 3; William Berz/Rutgers University Wind Ensemble
23. Frank Ticheli, There Will Be Rest; Sursum Corda/Lester Siegel
24. Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor; E. Power Biggs
25. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 5, third movement; Kent Nagano/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
26. Johann Sebastian Bach, Fantasia in G major; Simon Preston
27. Astor Piazzolla, Nuevo Tango; performed by the composer
28. George Gershwin, Cuban Overture; Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
