An Early Evening Stroll

Despite a full curtain of silk threads and an entire arsenal of Damocles’ swords, the Concertzender has managed to stay airborne for forty years. That deserves a warm congratulations and calls for a musical celebration. Programme maker Thijs Bonger has loosely associated around the theme of birthdays. A festive journey, crisscrossing through music history, unimpeded by any form of chronological order. Often featuring vivid and/or witty music across various genres.

Playlist:

1. Johann Strauss Jr.: Champagner-Polka op.211
   Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Willy Boskovsky
2. Sergei Taneyev: The composer’s birthday
   Joseph Banowetz and Adam Wodnicki, piano; Vladimir Ashkenazy, narrator
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: from Eugene Onegin Triquet: A cette fête…
   Francis Egerton, tenor; St.Petersburg Chamber Choir; Orchestre de Paris conducted by Semyon Bychkov
4. Alexander Glazunov/ Anatoly Lyadov/ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Birthday
   Shostakovich Quartet
5. Peter Heidrich: Happy Birthday variations
   Quartetto d’archi di Venezia
6. Claude Debussy: from Preludes 2me livre no: 24, Feux d’artifice
   Andrei Diev, piano
7. Igor Stravinsky: Feu d’artifice
   The London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
8. Igor Stravinsky: Greetings prelude Happy Birthday
   The London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
9. Georg Friedrich Händel: Music for the Royal fireworks HWV 351
   Tafelmusik conducted by Jeanne Lamon
10. Erik Satie: Le Feu d’artifice
    Aldo Ciccolini, piano