Show 134: Something for Parents :)

[Added on 2015/7/18:  This used to be called Show 34.  I've renumbered the shows, so that this one is Show134.  The first digit will indicate which series the show is from: 1 for the first cycle, 2 for this second cycle, and so on.  For instance, the July 4^th show for this year will be numbered numbered Show201, and so on.  If you didn't figure this out yet, my first show aired the week of July 4th, 2014.]
 
It's getting close to the anniversary of this show; it was the week before July 4th last year that I put up the first edition of Archie's Archives!

This show will try to celebrate parents of both sexes — why have two separate days for mothers and fathers?  (Answer: so you get to spend more money!  It's good to have these answers ready.)  Some of the pieces I have, unfortunately, are religious in inspiration, but I decided long ago that I would enjoy religious music without any embarrassment, despite being a firm unbeliever, because it's too much frustration having to avoid religious music, and I imagine that in an ideal world, composers would have written beautiful music even if they were totally non-religious.  In the —a little less than ideal— world we actually have, of course, many composers would have written very little, if not for the religious inspiration, or being faced with the duty of supplying music for weekly worship.  In good times, religion serves as stimulation for art, sort of artistic insulin, if you will.  In bad times, religion comforts those who suffer, providing the opiate for the masses, and enables those who impose suffering to do so without too much backlash.  And we all know who they are.

Johann Sebastian Bach was often called Papa Bach, and Joseph Haydn was called Papa Haydn.  So we can feature works by these composers with no apology.  In fact someone (I can't remember who) said that Bach should not have been called Bach, which means brook, but rather, Meer, which means, the sea.  In Dutch, the word for sea is zee, and those who cross the Tappan Zee Bridge must know that it refers to the fact that The Mighty Hudson is particularly wide at that point.  (My wife always calls it The Mighty Hudson, and it gives us a good chuckle, though the allusion eludes me.  I guess all I have to do is ask her...)

Part A

Puccini: O mio babbino caro (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf)

Wagner: Wotan and Brunhilde duet

Bach: BWV 211 Die Katze lasst das Mausen nicht, Trio finale from Coffee Cantata

Haydn: Symphony No 94 - 'Surprise'-i-Allegro (Colin Davis, Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Part B

Chopin: Waltz for piano No 1 in E flat major ('Grande Valse Brillante') Op18, B 62.mp3

Haydn: Symphony No 94 - 'Surprise'-ii-Andante

Chopin:

Waltz for piano No  6 in D flat major ('Minute') Op 64-1, B 164-1

Waltz for piano No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 64-2,  B 164-2

Waltz for piano No 11 in G flat major, Op 70-1 (posth.), B 92

Waltz for piano No11 in G flat major, Op 70-1 B 92.mp3

Haydn: Symphony No 94 - 'Surprise'-iii- Menuett+Trio

Part C

Kreisler arrangements:

Londonderry Air

Danse Espagnole (Falla)

Tambourin Chinois

Haydn: 'Surprise'-iv-Finale

Kreisler arrangements (Nigel Kennedy):

Midnight Bells

Danse espagnole (Granados)

Leibesleid

Part D

Bach: Schafe konne sicher weiden

Kreisler:  

Liebesfreud (Gil Shaham)

Elgar: Salut d'amour

Arch: Tune