The Flower Connection
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Cosmos flowers under a blue sky
"The flower,” writes French author Jean Giraudoux, “is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."'
Perhaps that’s why so many composers have found inspiration in blooms and blossoms.
As a case in point, in this hour, examples by Monteverdi, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Puccini, Prokofiev, and more.
RECORDINGS USED
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CD Title
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Group/Artist
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Catalog #
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UPC
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Arie e Duette [for instrumental ‘O Rosetta’]
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Lautten Compagney
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Capriccio C10470
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4006408104704
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Rapture [for Lakme Flower Duet]
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Sutherland & Berbie, Orchestra of the Monte Carlo Opera, Bonynge
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Deutsche Grammophon 289 471 717-2
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028947171720
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Viva Rey Ferrando, [for “Dindiridin”]
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Hèsperion XX
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Virgin Classics A61222
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724356122222
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American Orchestral Song [for Griffes’ “So-Fei Gathering Flowers”]
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Patrick Mason ; Odense Symphony, Paul Mann
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Bridge 9254
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090404925429
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Quartet Movements [for Puccini’s “Crisantemi”]
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Signum Quartet
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Capriccio C5064
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845221050645
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Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes & Deems Taylor [for Taylor’s “Garden of Live Flowers”]
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
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Delos DE 3099
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013491309927
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The Nutcracker [for “Waltz Of The Flowers”]
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Saint Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin
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RCA Red Seal RCD2-7005
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078635700527
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Aria [for instrumental Lakme Flower Duet]
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Eugenia Zukerman, Dennis Helmrich, Allan Vogel
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Delos DE3209
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013491320922
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Mahler Symphony 3
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London Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein
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Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD2006/07
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5016908200621
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Johann, Josef & Eduard Strauss: Valses & Polkas [for Roses from the South]
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Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna, Willi Boskovsky
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EMI Classics 5 74528 2
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724357452823
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Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali [for “O Rosetta”]
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Hugues Cuenod, Charles Bressler, and Louis-Jacques Rondeleux
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Project 3 PR7001SD [vinyl]
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[none]
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Metcalf: In Time of Daffodils
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Jeremy Huw Williams; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn
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Signum SIGCD103
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635212010327
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Prokofiev: The Stone Flower
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Gianandrea Noseda led BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
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Chandos 10058(2)
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095115105825
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