This last installment of the Festival includes the Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture, the âPathétiqueâ Symphony and more works based on Romeo and Juliet by other composers. Read our English commentary @ http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2011/05/podcast-8-tchaikovsky-festival-part-3.html. Details @ https://archive.org/details/pcast-008-playlist (ITYWLTMT Podcast #8 - May 27, 2011)
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ITYWLTMT Montage #8
“Tchaikovsky Festival, Part 3”
Pyotr Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture [TH 42]
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai, conducting
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgenii Mravinsky, conducting
Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869)
“La Reine Mab ou la Fée des Songes”, from Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique, op. 17
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Charles Dutoit, conducting
Charles GOUNOD (1818-1893)
“L'amour! L'amour!...Ah! lève-toi soleil!“, from Act II of Roméo et Juliette (1867)
Jussi Björling, tenor
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Emil Cooper, conducting
Sergey PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
“Juliet as a Young Girl” from Romeo and Juliet (Ten pieces for piano after the ballet), Op.75, no. 4
Louis Lortie, piano