July 4 – From the 2011 Spring for Music Festival

Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, music director
Angela Hewitt, piano

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Program:
GIOVANNI GABRIELI: Excerpts from Sacred Symphony for Brass
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Inventions Nos. 1-5
ANTON WEBERN: Symphony, Op. 21
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Inventions Nos. 8-9
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Inventions Nos. 11, 12, 15
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Description:
Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra explore symphonies through the centuries with pianist Angela Hewitt for a live performance from Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music Festival.

This week's encore contest winner was Christpher Huynh of Houstron, TX. He correctly identified Maurice Ravel's "Bolero."

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