Solo hornist and arranger Michael Atkinson was recently browsing YouTube and stumbled across some music he'd never heard before—Romanian Christmas Carols, piano music by Bela Bartok. He loved it so much that he arranged it for the orchestra he is part of, The Knights. And we get to hear it on today's show!
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Reinhold Gliere: Romance, Op. 3
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin | Olga Sitkovetsky, piano
Album: Sasha Plays Romantic Russian Rarities
EMI 57025
Reinhold Gliere: Horn Concerto B flat Major Op. 91
Yun Zeng, French horn | Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra | Arseny Shuplyakov, conductor
The XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
Piano Puzzler
Contestant: Curtis Funk calling from Niskayuna, NY
Vince Guaraldi, arr. Brian Smith: Coventry Carol / Christmas Time is Here
Revien
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Hall, Athens, GA
Hour 2
Erwin Schulhoff: Alla Tango Milonga
Mira Wang, Colin Jacobsen, violins | Nicholas Cords, viola | Jan Vogler, cello
Album: Tango!
Sony 32803
Otto Winter-Hjelm: Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Norwegian Radio Orchestra | Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
NRK Radio Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
Elizabeth Brown: Liguria for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
Marya Martin, flute | Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet | Tessa Lark, violin | Peter Stumpf, cello | Juho Pohjonen, piano
Bridgehampton Chamber Music, Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, NY
Bela Bartok, arr. Michael P. Atkinson: Romanian Christmas Carols
The Knights | Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Album: The Knights Before Christmas
Bright Shiny Things 159
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