BwGN AM Mixtape #59 – The classical one, w/ Mark B.

My friend Mark took me to the San Francisco Symphony this weekend, and afterwards we made a classical music-themed mixtape for you. Enjoy!

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Playlist

  1. Aftab Darvishi: Daughters of Sol by Kronos Quartet on single (part of Kronos' Fifty for the Future education program) (self released)
  2. Henry Purcell: O Solitude (arr. Olivia Chaney) by Olivia Chaney with Jordan Hunt on Shelter (Nonesuch)
  3. François Couperin: Messe À L'Usage Des Paroisses—Benedictus by Adriano Falcioni on Couperin: Mass for the Parishes / Mass for the Convents (Brilliant Classics)
  4. Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for a New Dark Age—VII. Machine by Victoire / Glenn Kotche / Lorna Dune on Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for a New Dark Age (New Amsterdam)
  5. Maurice Ravel: La Tombeau de Couperin, for orchestra—III. Menuet: Allegro moderato by London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado on Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works (Deutsche Grammophon)
  6. Jennifer Higdon: Violin Concerto—1726 (1st Movement) by Hilary Hahn and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko on Retrospective (Deutsche Grammophon)
  7. Helix by Kelly Moran on Ultraviolet (Warp)
  8. Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor Op. 129 by Natalia Gutman and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado on Cello Concerto, Op. 129/Serenade No. 1, Op. 11 (Deutsche Grammophon)
  9. Caroline Shaw: Its Motion Keeps by Brooklyn Youth Chorus with Caroline Shaw, conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker on Black Mountain Songs (New Amsterdam)
  10. Escape Artist by Zoë Keating on Into the Trees (self-released)
  11. Mason Bates: Liquid Interface—III. Crescent City by San Francisco Symphony with Mason Bates, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas on Mason Bates: Works for Orchestra (San Francisco Symphony)
  12. Surf Session by Moondog, feat. the Weiner-Sabinsky Duo on Moondog (Prestige)
  13. Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32—III. Mercury, The Winged Messenger by Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus on Holst: The Planets (Deutsche Grammophon)