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Music By Which to Read for Week 8

Text version of playlist for week 8.


Antonín Dvorák

Slavonic Dances, Op. 72

  1. In B Major
  2. In E Minor
  3. In F Major
  4. In D-flat Major
  5. In B-flat Minor
  6. In B-flat Major
  7. In C Major
  8. In A-flat Major

Selected recording: Peter Toperzer, Marian Lapsansky


Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1

  1. Morning
  2. Death of Aase
  3. Anitra's Dance
  4. In the Hall of the Mountain King

Peer Gynt Suite, No. 2

  1. Ingrid's Lament
  2. Arabian Dance
  3. Peer Gynt's Return
  4. Solveig's Song

Selected recording: Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra


Jean Sibelius

Finlandia, Op. 26, No. 7

Selected recording: Herbert von Karajan, The Berliner Philharmoniker


Ralph Vaughan Williams

English Folk Song Suite

  1. March: Seventeen Come Sunday
  2. Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy
  3. March: Folk Songs from Somerset

Selected recording: Sir Neville Marriner, The Academy of St Martin in the Fields


Manolis Kalomiris

Egia Mola

Selected recording: Early Music Workshop


Ottorino Respighi

Fountains of Rome

  • The Fountain of the Valle Giulia
  • The Triton Fountain
  • The Fountain of the Trevi
  • The Villa Medici Fountain

Selected recording: Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal