Summertime Classics Episode 6

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Summer, Sea and Water Inspired Classical Hits - Last Episode



Victor Bendix Symphony no. 2, op. 20 "Sommerklange fra Sydrusland" (Sounds of Summer from South Russia) in D major (1888)

Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen -- January 1926) was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade.
Additionally, he was a friend of Carl Nielsen's, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix.

1 andante-presto-allegro moderato
2 prestissimo 10.00
3 andante sostenuto 16.04
molto vivace 23.40





Richard Hickox: Gustav Holst A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Created in: 1907
Recorded in: 1994





Tōru Takemitsu: Toward the sea, for alto flute and guitar (1981)

I. The Night
II. Moby Dick
III. Cape Cod

Robert Aitken, flauto
Norbert Kraft, guitar


Previously on Summertime Classics:
Adolf Wiklund: Summer Night and Sunrise, symphonic poem
Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind (In the Summer Wind), idyll for orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi: The Seasons
Antonin Dvorak: Rusalka
Astor Piazzolla: Seasons, Summer
Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes III (Sirenes)
Clifton Parker: Seascape, from the documentary Western Approaches
Clifton Parker: Virgin Island, A Caribbean Rhapsody
Cyril Scott: Neptune, Poem of the Sea
Edward Elgar: Where Corals Lie
Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk Soundtrack Suite
Erkki Melartin: Symphony No. 4 in E Major "Summer Symphony" Op. 80
Ernest John Moeran: Lonely Waters from "Two pieces for small orchestra"
Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer`s Night Dream
Frank Bridge: Summer, symphonic poem
Frank Bridge: The Sea, suite for orchestra
Frederick Delius: A Song of Summer
Frederick Delius: In a Summer Garden, arranged for piano
Frederick Delius: Sea Drift, after Walt Whitman
George Frideric Handel: Watermusic
Haydn Wood: The Seafarer, A Nautical Rhapsody, for orchestra
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Last Rose of Summer
Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides
Jiri Jarov: The Old Man and the Sea, symphonic poem
Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "In Summer" Op. 208
John Williams: Jaws - Out to sea - The shark cage Fugue
Kurt Atterberg: The River - from the Mountains to the Sea
Natanael Berg: Symphony No. 2 "The Seasons"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Reinhold Glière: The Sirens, Symphonic Poem in F minor, Op. 33
Ture Rangström: Song of the Sea
Vincent D'Indy: Poeme Des Rivages Op. 77
William Henry Fry: Niagara symphony

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