Tonight, the lush Hollywood music of Korngold’s cello concerto, and the modernist left-hand piano concerto of Hindemith. Plus Milhaud’s Création du Monde, and Bukvich’s Interior Designs.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #75: “I Speak in English Now”
Theme Music :
Steve Reich. The Desert Music (1984)
First Movement (Fast).
Chorus of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas & William Carlos Williams.
Nonesuch Records 79101
Marc Blitzstein
No For an Answer: Act 2, Scene 7: “I Speak in English Now”
Original Cast
Pavilion Records GEMS CD 0009
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Cello Concerto, Op. 37
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Peter Dixon, Cello; Matthias Bamert, conducting.
Chandos 10433 (1996)
Paul Hindemith
Klaviermusik Mit Orchester, Op. 29
I. Einleitung: Massige Schnelle Halbe
II. Sehr Lebhafte Halbe
III. Trio: Basso Ostinato – Langsame Viertel, Nur Sehr Wenig Ausdruck
IV. Finale: Bewegte Halbe
Leon Fleisher, Christoph Eschenbach & Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Curtis-Ondine 1141-2
Darius Milhaud
Milhaud: La Création Du Monde, Op. 81A
Leonard Bernstein: Orchestre National De France
EMI CDC-7 47845 2
Svjetlana Bukvich
Interior Designs: Tattoo
Kamala Sankaram & Svjetlana Bukvich
Innova #253