Rewind Episode #3: Mission Impossible
Classical Music Virtual Performances Rewind
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explore 600 years of music—from Renaissance melodies to the well-known Mission: Impossible Theme.
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00:00 Ransom Introduces Rewind #3
06:46 Concert Begins
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About the Episode
600 years of music are on display in this powerhouse performance from 2018. Enjoy the lively Renaissance melodies in Respighi's Ancient Airs & Dances. The Baroque elegance of Handel's Concerto Grosso. The wit of Haydn's Symphony No. 104.
We then move to two works by a modern master. Gene Pokorny, principal tubist of the Chicago Symphony, performs the world premiere of Lalo Schifrin's Tuba Concerto. Then we close our concert with Schifrin's most well-known piece: the thrilling theme to the hit television show Mission: Impossible.
Performance Program:
- Handel: Concerto Grosso in G in D major, op. 6 no. 5 HWV 323 (read program notes)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major, H. 1/104 (III. Menuetto & Trio — IV. Finale: Spiritoso) (read program notes)
- Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances, Suite 1, P. 109 (read program notes)
- Schifrin: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra (Gene Pokorny, tuba) (read program notes)
- Schifrin: Theme from Mission: Impossible (read program notes)
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