Happy Leap Year Everyone! Thank you to a listener from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, who requested excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Halfway through the comic opera, Frederick the pirate makes the discovery that his contract as a pirate apprentice lasts not until his 21st year but his 21st birthday. And since he was born in a leap year, that birthday will not occur for another 80 years.
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- Anton Arensky, Waltz from Suite No. 1, John Ogden and Brenda Lucas
- Arvo Part, Cantus: In Memory of Benjamin Britten, Scottish National Orchestra, Neemi Jarvi
- Vangelis, Conquest of Paradise, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Williams
- W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Excerpts from the Pirates of Penzance, Original Broadway Cast Recording
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- Camille Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Michael Murray, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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- Emmerich Kalmain, Mien Lieber Schatz from Grafin Mariza, Dagmar Schellenberger and Nikolai Schukoff, Festival Morbisch Orchestra, Rudoph Bibl
- Jacob Van Eyck, I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart, Les Witches
- Peter Herdrich, Happy Birthday Variations, Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vocalise, Mistaslav Rostropovitch with Alexander Dedyukin
- Benj Paske, Justin Hurwitz, Justin Paul, Another Day in the Sun from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, La La Land, La La Land Cast
- Claude Debussy, Des pas sur las neige, Jean-Yves Theibaudet
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C sharp minor, Van Cliburn
- Frederick Chopin, Impromptu No.1, Vladimir Horowitz
- Traditional Spiritual, arr. H.T. Burleigh, Deep River, Denyce Graves with Warren Jones
- Gwyneth Walker, The Peacemakers, Musica Harmonia
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- Max Richter, Selections from My Brilliant Friend, Original Television Series Soundtrack, Air Lyndhurst Orchestra, Max Richter
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major “Waldstein,” Christina Ortiz, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
- Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei (Adagio), Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill