The Part-Time Connection
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Charles Ives worked most of his life as an insurance company executive. Alexander Borodin was a highly-respected chemist. And Henry VIII—well, you know all about him—or do you?
Because, like the others, he was a part-time composer. In this hour, you’ll hear you’ll hear how each of them (and several others) managed to turn out some pretty impressive music in their spare time.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| CD Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Symphony No. 2, etc. [for Polovstian Dances] |
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky |
CHAN 9386 |
09115938621 |
| All Goodly Sports [for Henry VIII: “Green Groweth the Holly” and “Helas, Madame” ] |
Sirinu |
Chandos CHAN 0621 |
095115062128 |
| Calliope: Dances [for Henry VIII: “Tander Naken”] |
Calliope |
Nonesuch 79039 |
0075597903928 |
| Wassenaer: Concerti Armonici |
Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman |
Helios CDH55155 |
034571151557 |
| Russian Overtures & Orchestral Works [for Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude] |
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev |
Newton Classics 8802037 |
8718247710379 |
| “From Greenland's Icy Mountains” [1909 archival recording] |
Edison Mixed Quartet |
- |
Public Domain |
| Charles Ives: The String Quartets |
Blair String Quartet |
Naxos 8.559178 |
636943917824 |
| Hanson Conducts Moore, Carpenter, Rogers and Phillips [for Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator] |
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Howard Hanson |
Mercury Living Presence 434 319-2 |
028943431927 |
