Works for violin and mandolin, as well as the composer's beloved Gloria, will be heard in celebration of the Italian Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi's birthday—and we'll hear Haitink conduct one of the orchestras with which he is most closely associated in one of his great specialties, as he leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, in music of Anton Bruckner, his monumental Symphony no. 8 in C Minor. For icing on cake, we will also hear them perform Wagner's birthday gift to his wife, Cosima, the Siegried Idyll.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
