Happy Swiss National Day! Featured on today's program was the William Tell Overture from Gioacchino Rossini's opera, William Tell. This popular work features a depiction of a storm and viviacious finale "The March of the Swiss soldiers". William Tell is a legenday folk hero of Switzerland who symbolizes the struggle for political and individual freedom.
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata in F major, Andre Watts
2. Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein
3. Gioacchino Rossini, William Tell Overture, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado
4. Victor Herbert, Thine Alone, Beverly Sills
5. Antonin Dvorak, Romance in F minor, Gil Shaham, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
6. Morten Laurdisen, O magnum mysterium, Chamber Choir of Europe, Nicol Matt
7. Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
8. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, O what a beautiful morning from Oklahoma, Gordon McCrae
9. Antonio Vivaldi, Concert in G Minor from Four Seasons “Summer”, Trondheim Soloists, Anne-Sophie Mutter
10. W.A. Mozart, Ah vous Dirai-je maman, Marilyn Neely
11. Ottorino Respighi, Church Windows, Buffalo Philharmonic, Joann Falletta
12. Dominic Muldowny, Ocean Tis for Thee from 1984, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Endymion Ensemble
13. Emmerich Kalman, excerpt from Die Csardasfurnstin, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
14. Eliot Goldenthal, excerpts from Frida, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Various Artists
15. Bedrich Smetana/arr. Hanus Trnecek, The Moldau, Maria Graf
16. George Bizet, Au fond du temple Saint from The Pearl Fishers, Jerry Hadley and Thomas Hampson, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi
17. Sigmund Romberg, Stouthearted Men from New Moon, Nelson Eddy and Orchestra
18. Ola Gjeilo, Northen Lights, Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy
19. Edward “Zez” Confrey, Kitten on the Keys, Alan Feinberg
20. Rogers and Hammerstein, Prelude from the Sound of Music, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
21. Ho Zhan-Hoa and Chen Gang, Butterfly Lovers, Guillermo Figueroa
22. Rogers and Hammerstein, You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, Renee Fleming
23. Camille Saint-Saens, March Militaire, Geoffrey Simon, London Philharmonic
24. Traditional Irish/arr. J.T. McKinney, The Parting Glass, Emily Curtin Culler, Manitou Winds
25. Scott Joplin, The Entertainer, Lang Lang
26. Simon Jeffes, Perpetual Mobile, Penguin Café Orchestra
27. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
28. Georgy Sviridov, Time Forward! USSR TV Radio Large Symphony, Vladimir Fedoseyev
29. John Williams, Theme for Jaws, London Symphony Orchestra, Gavin Greenaway
30. Mark O’Connor/arr. Edgar Meyer, Appalachian Waltz, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor
31. Franz Schubert, Overture in G Minor, Yaara Tal an Andreas Groethuysen
32. Erich Korngold, Marietta’s Song from Die Tote Stadt, Beverly Sills, London Philharmonic, Julius Rudel
33. Various Artists, Swiss Army Band Medley, Swiss Army Central Band
34. John Adams, Hymning Slews from Shaker Loops, London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
