November 5, 2009

20:03:00 22:34 Music for the Royal Fireworks by Georg Freceric Handel Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Oliver Dohanyi Handel: Music fpr the Royal Fireworks, Watermusic Suite Sonata 91025
20:27:00 19:53 Symphony # 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock The Complete Mozart Symphonies Archiv 471 666 - 2
20:47:00 5:54 Mystic Temple by Alice Gomez Alice Gomez, Madalyn Blanchett, Marilyn Rife Flute Dreams Talking Taco TT 125D
21:00:00 39:07 Symphony # 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Rochester Philhanromic Orchestra, David Zinman Mendlessohn: Symphonies No 3 in a Minor "Scottish; No 5 in D minor "Reformation" Vox MWCD 7128
21:40:00 15:55 Wellington's Victory, "The Battle of Vittoria" Op 91 by Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonieorchester des Beyerischen Rundfunks, Lorin Maazel Symphonic Battle Scenes RCA Victor /  BMG bg2 68471

THE MEANDER TEASER – DOUBLE

1) Why were the Music for the Royal Fireworks really composed?

ANS:  His employer, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, played the instrument

2) While on his visit to Scotland, Mendelssohn traveled to the islands and wrote an overture as a result. What is it called?

ANS:  The Hebrides Overture, Fingal’s Cave.


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