July 3, 2007 "Summer Music"
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This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music written about Summer, including Henry Purcell's and Mendelssohn's settings of "A MidSummer Night's Dream", Vivaldi's "Summer", from the Four Seasons, as well as Piazzolla's "Verano Porteno" (Summer in Buenos Aires), and "August" from the "Songs of the Calendar" by Eduardo Martin, from the 2006 CD release by Cuban guitarist Iliana Matos.



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Program ID# 07-D65-00027
Title: Summer Music
Total length: 58:18

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to.."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"
Program Length: 56:26

INTRODUCTION:

Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude
Los Romeros (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Trio Voronezh
(EMI 56892)

Vivaldi: Summer, from The Seasons
Amsterdam Guitar Trio
(RCA 61652)

Purcell: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saarlandisches Zupforchester
Reiner Stutz, cond.
(Fono 97787)

Martin: Songs of the Calendar: August
Iliana Matos, guitar
(GSP 1030)

Degen: A Summer Afternoon, op.15
Morten Zeuthen, cello
Erling Moldrup, guitar
(Classico 285)

Boyd: Serenade for Summer
Liona Boyd, guitar
(Moston 2046795182)

Miguel: Summer Suite, op.11
Duo Capriccioso
(Thorofon 2204)

Piazzolla: Verano Porteno
John Williams, guitar
(Sony Classical 89141)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS