Thanks to listeners in Millersburg, Indian River, Pellston, Custer, Lake Leelanau and many other places for your requests this week.
1. Arvo Pärt, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten; Angele Dubeau/La Pieta
2. Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano concerto no. 2 (first movement); Paul Freeman/ RTV Symphony Orchestra/Joshua Pierce
3. Camille Saint-Saens, Danse macabre; James DePreist/Oregon Symphony
4. Felix Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture; Bernard Haitink/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
5. Traditional, the Star-Spangled Banner; Van Cliburn
6. Traditional, The Last Rose of Summer; Corie Root & the Dodworth Saxhorn Band
7. Gioacchino Rossini, The Fortunate Deception overture; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8. Felix Mendelssohn, “The Lord God of Abraham” from Elijah; Paul Robeson
9. Louis Prima, Sing, Sing, Sing; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
10. Scott Joplin, “A real slow drag” from Treemonisha; Janinah Burnett & Anita Johnson/Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
11. Jacques Offenbach, Letter aria from La Perichole; Monserrate Caballé
12. Ken Wood, The name of the Lord is a strong tower; performed by the composer
13. Rodgers & Hammerstein, “You’ll never walk alone”; Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Columbia Symphony Orchestra
14. Traditional, The Happy Wanderer; the Stargazers
15. Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4 (first and fourth movements); Georg Solti/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
16. Rodgers & Hammerstein, “Younger than springtime”; Jerry Hadley
17. John David, You are the New Day; King’s Singers
18. Traditional, Poor Wayfaring Stranger; Custer LaRue & Baltimore Consort
19. Bernard Hermann, themes from Psycho; I Salonisti
20. Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 2; Anthony Newman/English Chamber Orchestra/Wynton Marsalis
21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quintet no. 3 in C major (first movement); Pinchas Zukerman & Tokyo String Quartet
22. John Foulds, April-England; Barry Wordsworth/London Philharmonic Orchestra
23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 39 (third movement); John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists
24. Luther Henderson, arr., Tuba Tiger Rag; Canadian Brass
25. Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 2 (second movement); Rafal Blechacz
26. Earl Robinson, Joe Hill; Paul Robeson
27. Antonio Soler, Concerto no. 6 (minuet); Kathleen Bride & John Gillock
28. Henryk Gorecki, Symphony no. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), second movement; David Zinman/London Sinfonietta/Dawn Upshaw
29. Lowell Mason, Nearer My God to Thee; Canadian Brass
30. Gilbert & Sullivan, There is beauty in the bellow of the blast; Monica Sinclair & Geraint Edwards
31. Anna Russell, How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera