Summer Music #2134
. . . from around the world, marvelous melodies and remembrances of the year’s sweetest season.
Hour One
GUY MICHELL: Chant Pastorale –Kevin Bowyer (1904 Norman & Beard/St. Mary’s Church, Woburn, England) Priory 1131
ANTONIO VIVALDI (arr. Scott): Summer, fr The Four Seasons, Op. 8, no. 2 –Jonathan Scott (1996 Marcussen/Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England) Scott Brothers Duo 008
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (trans. Demers): Scherzo, fr A Midsummer Night’s Dream –Isabelle Demers (1928 Skinner-2006 Schantz/Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago University, Chicago, IL) Acis 41752
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Summertime, fr Porgy & Bess –Walt Strony (Wurlitzer/Tahoma Studio, Maple Valley, WA) ATOS 2010
MICHEL LeGRAND: Summer me, winter me –Dan Bellomy (Wurlitzer/Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, NY) Cambria 1108
IMANTS ZEMZARIS: Pastorales for Summer Flute –Hans-Ola Ericsson (1987 Grönlunds/Luleå Cathedral, Sweden) Bis 561
Filler – GERSHWIN (see above)
Hour Two
DIMITRI TIOMKIN: The green leaves of summer –Don Baker (Wurlitzer/Paramount Theater, NYC) POP 131
JIMMY McHUGH: I couldn’t sleep a wink last night –Bobby Hackett, cornet; John Seng (Wurlitzer/Loderhose Studio, Jamaica, NY) Sony Special Projects 26656
CHRISTIAN PRAESTHOLM: Variations on a Danish Folk Tune (A Delightful and Joyous Summertime) –James D. Hicks (1963 Casavant/Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN) PD Archive (r. 9/22/19) (also available, on a different instrument, as Pro Organo 7292)
ALEXANDER MATTHEWS: The Passing of Summer –Gordon Turk (1908 Hope-Jones+2012 Shaw/The Auditorium, Garden Grove, NJ) Raven 166
IVAN BOZICEVIC: Summer Triptych (Summer in the World; Spring Passes; The Moonpiper)–Ivan Bozicevic (2000 Zanin/Ascension Cathedral, Belgrade, Serbia) Edition Lilac 180727
Filler – LEGRAND (see above)
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