Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony

On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, music to mark the American civil rights leader by Duke Ellington, plus choral music by Leonard Bernstein and the first symphony by a female American composer. Elizabeth Alker includes music to mark 250 years of American Independence in exclusive recordings from home and abroad.

Duke Ellington
Three Black Kings
Matthias Ambrosius (saxophone)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Patrick Hahn (conductor)

Cesar Franck (arr. Jules Delsart)
Sonata in A major
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Alexei Volodin (piano)

Amy Beach
Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 ‘Gaelic’
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Marie Jacquot (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Märchenbilder, Op. 113
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Dasol Kim (piano)

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser - Overture
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Harold Arlen
Blues in the Night
Julian Bliss and Friends

Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
National Youth Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

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