RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

Towards the flame

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to today's episode of Resounding Echoes. Despite wishful thinking to the contrary, I doubt if there has been a year in the last two or three thousand of human history where some sort of savagery has not been inflicted by some group of humans on another group, or on another species of life with which we, as latecomers to the wonder of occasionally faulty replicating DNA, share this planet ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: Towards the flame
(Resounding Echoes)
© 2024 Robert McCarney :

Resounding Echoes: Towards the flame

Copyright © 25 August 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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Towards the Flame

Leo Ornstein: Danse Sauvage (1914)
Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Zoltán Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello (1914)
Jerry Grossman, cello; Daniel Philips, violin

Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger: Clairières dans le Ciel (1914)
Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Kevin Murphy, piano

Sergei Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Op 17 (1914)
Daniil Trifonov, piano

Matthijs Vermeulen: Symphony No 1 (1914)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Roelof van Driesten

Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Goldner String Quartet

Alexander Scriabin: Vers la Flamme, Op 72 (1914)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano

 

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