Fred Plotkin on Fridays: Ettore Volontieri
Fred Plotkin, pleasure activist and passionate opera expert, speaks each Friday with fascinating people in the music world. He is author of Opera 101 and Classical Music 101 and leads opera symposia for New York Times Journeys. In this episode, Fred chats with Ettore Volontieri, one of the most gifted managers in the music business and General Manager of the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation in Switzerland.
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 13 I. Grave – Allegro ma non troppo
Rachmaninoff: Ostrov mertvykh (The Isle of the Dead) op. 29
Verdi: La forza del destino – “Urna fatale”
Casella: Symphony No. 2 in C minor op. 12 (1908-1909) II. Allegro molto vivace – Più allegro
Wolf-Ferrari: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 26 (1944) I. Fantasia
Schumann: Dichterliebe op. 48 7. Ich grolle nicht
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