On this week's Learning to Listen, you'll hear from composers inspired by the sun, old and new. Hear how composers have honored the sun in their music, and bask in the lyrical warmth.
Program Playlist
Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra, 1st movement
The Cleveland Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond
London/Decca 425942
Trad. Norwegian, arr. Daniel Nystedt
Behold, the Beautiful Light of the Sun
Oslo Chamber Choir
Two L 73
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet No. 64 "Sunrise", 1st movement
Takacs Quartet
London/Decca 17906
Carl Nielsen
Helios Overture
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, cond
Dacapo 220518
Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, cond
Telarc 80677
Aulis Sallinen
Sunrise Serenade
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu, cond
Bis 511
Frederick Delius
Song Before Sunrise
Northern Sinfonia of England
Richard Hickox, cond
EMI 65067
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