There can be something quite revealing in the work of a composer who feels death at his shoulder.
And while you might think that such parting efforts would be introspectively sad or dramatic, many are not—as we’ll hear in this hour, with final musical thoughts from Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Britten, and Bernstein.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, etc. |
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt |
Decca 443 773-2 |
028944377323 |
| Mozart: Clarinet Concerto |
Martin Frost, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Peter Oundjian |
BIS BIS-SACD 1263 |
7318599912639 |
| Beethoven: Complete String Quartets |
Alban Berg Quartet |
EMI 5 73606 2 |
0724357360623 |
| Chopin: Complete Mazurkas Vol. 2 |
Garrick Ohlsson |
Helios CDH55392 |
034571153926 |
| Strauss Edition Vol. 39 [for Echoes from the days of Raimund] |
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice; Christian Pollack |
Marco Polo 8.223239 |
0730099323925 |
| Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 |
London Symphony, Antal Dorati |
Mercury Living Presence Collector's Edition #2 478 5092 |
028947850922 |
| Rachmaninoff - The Bells; Symphonic Dances |
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle |
Warner Classics |
5099998451920 |
| Britten: Spring Symphony, Welcome Ode |
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Senior Choirs of the City of London School for Girls and City of London School |
Chandos CHAN 8855 |
095115885529 |
| Bernstein: Jubilee Games |
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein |
Deutsche Grammophon 429231 |
028942923126 |
