Snooze Button #633 27 Oct 2009

Two songs by Richard Strauss to begin, sung by French baritone Gerard Souzay; today’s Halloween offering - the concluding sections of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in Maurice Ravel’s orchestration; the lyrical 2nd movement from Brahms’ Quartet #2 for Piano and Strings; a movement from Leo Weiner’s Hungarian Folk Dance Suite.