Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Hampson / Axelrod

Programme

• »I Hear America Singing II«

• Charles Ives

  Variations on »America« (1891)

• William Grant Still

  Plain Chant for America (1941)

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

  Danse nègre (African suite op. 35) (1898)

• John Adams

  The Wound-Dresser (1988)

• Intermission

• Tobias Picker

  Old and lost Rivers (1986)

• Samuel Barber

  Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance op. 23a (1946/1955)

• Aaron Copland

  Simple gifts (Old American Songs Nr. 4) (1950–1952)

  At the river (Old American Songs, Band 2, Nr. 4) (1950–1952)

  The little horses (Old American Songs, Band 2, Nr. 1) (1950–1952)

  The dodger (Old American Songs Nr. 2) (1950–1952)

  The boatmen's dance (Old American Songs Nr. 1) (1950–1952)

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• Aaron Copland

  I bought me a cat (Old American Songs Nr. 5) (1950)