Minnesota Orchestra Tours Japan

On the Road

Ratner

MPR host Mindy Ratner (currently based in Beijing!) is catching up with the orchestra in Japan.

Here are her
posts from the road!

Virtual Tour Partners:
Minnesota Orchestra and Startribune.com

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The Minnesota Orchestra
Tours Japan!

Enjoy the works the orchestra is performing on its September, 1998 tour.

Click "Listen" to play a recording in RealAudio 3.0 28.8 format. (To listen you'll need a sound card in your computer, a 28.8 kbps or faster Internet connection, and a free RealPlayer available from http://www.realaudio.com.)

Click "Read" to go to program notes by the orchestra's Mary Ann Feldman.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
Performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker
(DG 447 400-2)
Listen, Read

Bernstein's Candide Overture
Performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
(DG 413 324-2)
Listen, Read

Bernstein's Symphonic Dances
Performed by the Minnesota Orchestra
(Virgin Classics 61194)
Listen, Read

Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite
Performed by the Minnesota Orchestra
(Reference RR-70CD)
Listen, Read

Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Third Movement
Performed by the London Philharmonic
(EMI 49888)
Listen, Read

Elgar's "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations
Performed by the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
(Arte Nova 74321 22769 2)
Listen

Mozart's Symphony No. 39
Performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, cond.
(Angel /EMI 7473272)
Listen, Read

NOTE: The recordings come from MPR' s music library and were specially selected for their relevance to the Minnesota Orchestra.

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