The American composer and conductor died ten years ago today.
A sequence of music by him, and his friends, teachers and heroes:
Respighi Three Botticelli Pictures
Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
9.54 Palestrina Motet:
Assumpta est
Maria Tallis Scholars/Phillips
10.04 Grieg Peer Gynt, Suite No 2, Op 55 Berlin PO/Karajan
10.23 Piston Suite:
The Incredible Flutist
Eastman-Rochester
Orchestra/Hanson
10.40
Sibelius Luonnatar , Op 70
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Philharmonia/Ashkenazy
10.50 Handel Violin
Sonata in A, Op 1 No 3 Simon Standage (violin) Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Trevor Pinnock (h'chord)
10.57 Hanson Symphony No 3: Eastman-Rochester
Orch/The Composer
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