Ancient & Modern with Fred Portnoy – #2

​A 15th century English carol,: Deo gracias Anglia…anon….”render thanks to God, o England, for the victory at Agincourt”. Musica Reservata conducted by John Beckett. Eugene Ormandy, the Philadelphia Orchestra,

Three Places in New England by Charles Ives, which he completed in 1914. The 3 places are:

i. The “Saint Gaudens” in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and His Colored Regiment)
ii. Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut
iii. The Housatonic at Stockbridge

La Femme a Barbe written in 1958 by Jose Berghmans. Ronald Barron, trombone and Fredrik Wagner, piano.

Pablo Heras-Casado conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a 2015 recording, with cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto.