The Summer Connection 2
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The Alhambra, the setting for the first movement of Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain."
Summer is more than a few months on the calendar—it’s also a state of mind.
That’s why, in their music, some composers look back at their childhood summers or conjure up a memory of a romantic summer evening. For others, it’s a season when things seem to slow down, and the weather invites us to bask in the sun or relax in the shade.
We’ve visited this time of year before, but we were just warming up.
In this hour, music by Prokofiev, Falla, Delius, Beach, Sondheim, and more.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Prokofiev: Music for Children [for Summer Day] |
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp |
Helios (Hyperion) CDH55177 |
034571151779 |
| German: Richard III, etc., [for “Summer,” from The Seasons] |
RTE Concert Orchestra, Andrew Penny |
Marco Polo 8.223695 |
730099369527 |
| Delius: Orchestral Works [for Summer Night on the River] |
Hallé Orchestra, John Barbirolli |
EMI Classics
CMS 5 65119 2 |
724356511927 |
| Bendix: Symphonies, [for Symphony no 2 in D, "Sounds of Summer from South Russia"] |
Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgenyi Shestakov |
Danacord 436/37 |
5709499436707 |
| Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody & Falla [for Nights in the Gardens of Spain] |
Artur Rubenstein, San Francisco Symphony, Enrique Jorda |
RCA Victor
09026-68886-2 |
090266888627 |
| Alfvén - Symphonies [for “Summer Rain,” from the Mountain King Suite] |
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi |
Brilliant Classics
8974 |
5029365897426 |
| Silk Road Journeys - Beyond the Horizon [for Summer in the High Grassland, by Zhao Jiping] |
Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Silk Road Project |
Sony SK 93962 |
827969396223 |
| Sondheim: A Little Night Music, [for The Night Waltz] |
Broadway production orchestra, Harold Hastings |
Vocalion CDLK 4626 |
765387462628 |
| Beach - Piano Music Vol. 3 – [for Farewell, Summer] |
Kirsten Johnson |
Guild GMCD7351 |
0795754735123 |
| Russian Salon, Opera salon, Operetta Salon [for The Last Rose of Summer] |
Cologne Salon Orchestra |
EMI Classics
CMS 7638332 |
077776383323 |
