without words:

classics that speak for themselves, as chosen for you by our invited guests

ninety minutes of wwclassic music radio, ohne worte, without words

a musical key to our guest's individuality.

cynthia wilson

These days, apart from live concerts themselves, something one cannot live without I would assume, the only

real time that can be spent listening to music (in real time) is while attending to the seemingly endless stream

of daily emails, some pressing, many certainly not, many warm from loved ones, some outright silly, unrequited

and always irritating.

This first without words is a small slice of the kind of email background music personally preferred. Unlike in

airports and elevators, the choice is blessedly my own. So perhaps an apt name for this 90 minutes of

music would be 'music for emails' (please excuse me Brian Eno-!). Hopefully some choices will be unknowns

for you, some most certainly soothing favourites. In no way exemplary for my taste in general which would

be hard to fence in, it is an anti pasti of cds that seem to stay put near the media player, within comforting reach.

This said, they have survived despite having to have killed off a myriad of darlings in this process of musical elimination.

Hopefully these tracks will soften the digital blow of inboxes for you; stay awake through Sleep, it has a happy

ending!

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Track list:

Bart Schneemann/Paolo Giacometti: Mozart, from Sonata in F K 377 arranged by Pleyel, Andante mit 6 Variationen

Channel Classics CCS SA23906

Beaux Arts Trio with Walter Trampler: Brahms, from Piano Quartet no. 3 in c, opus 60, Allegro ma non troppo and Scherzo (Allegro) PentatoneClassics 5186 151

Polyphony/Stephen Layton: Eric Whitacre, 'Sleep'

HyperionA67543

St.Lawrence String Quartet: Shostakovich, from Quartet no.3 in f opus 73, Allegretto

EMIClassics 3 59956 2

Die Singphoniker: Cole Porter/arr. Gunnar Mühling, Tag und Nacht, arrangement made for the Comedian Harmonists

www.singphoniker.de

Janine Jansen: Joey Roukens Un Cuadro de Yucatán

NMCLassics 92120

Evgeny Kissin/James Levine/Philharmonia Orchestra: Beethoven, from Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat opus 73,

Adagio un poco mosso and Rondo-Allegro

SonyClassical SK 62926

Bernard Haitink/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: from Bruckner Symphony no. 7 in E, Scherzo/Sehr schnell

QDisc 97014

Vladimir Horowitz: Scarlatti, Sonata in c K303

SonyClassical SK48093

Trilok Gurtu/Arké String Quartet: Gurtu, Balahto

Egramusic

Ivan Fischer/Budapest Festival Orchestra: Mahler, from Symphony no. 6, Andante moderato

Channel Classics CCS SA 22905

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cynthia wilson is the founder of wwclassicsonline, see further credits.

next month's guest: Hans Haffmans, host of Live! at the Concertgebouw, produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide,

syndicated in the USA by WFMT, Chicago.

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cynthia wilson

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