Four Centuries of Great Music July 29, 2023 Full Body Orgasmic Scream Episode 8

Today on Four Centuries of Great Music we are concluding our series of episodes entitled Full Body Orgasmic Scream - the title coming from as I explained that back in March of this year there was a cry that come out at a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert during a concert of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony which was described as a Full Body Orgasmic Scream.  I am sure you have not let out a full body orgasmic scream during a concert, but I am also sure there are classical music works that make you tingle all over and that is what I am presenting as part of this series.  Today we are back to works for full orchestra.

We begin with Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.  It is in 6 movements:
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - Introduction
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - The Firebird's Dance
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - Supplication of the Firebird
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - Round Dance of the Princesses
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - Dance of the Kastchei
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite - Finale


The remainder of this hour we will be beginning Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with sections 1 to 9.  If the opening O Fortuna  does not give you tingles all over, I am not sure what will. 
Carl Orff:  Carmina Burana - Sections 1 to 9
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana  - Conclusion


We will closed this final episode of the Four Centuries of Great Music series entitled Full body Orgasmic Scream  featuring music that gives you tingles all over with Claude Debussy’s La Mer.  It is in three sections:
From Dawn til Noon at the Sea
Play of the Waves
Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea

Here is a performance of Claude Debussy’s La Mer by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky from the album Debussy: Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, La Mer    RCA Victor

And just a couple of weeks ago I heard the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons at the Koussevitzky Shed


Thank you for joining me today on Four Centuries of Great Music and join me again next week for some new classical music releases.  A lot of new music has been coming out this month.  Just a reminder new programs debut on Sundays from 3-5 pm here on WRUU and encore on the following Saturday from 3-5 pm.