Coffee Connotations - This week on Harmonia, we'll be listening to music associated with coffee and coffeehouses. Bring your favorite brew as we travel from Constantinople to Leipzig, London, Paris, and back again through the sounds of Middle Eastern rasts and taksim, broadside ballads, and cantatas singing the praises and pitfalls of coffee. Hear sounds of different coffee houses from the 16th to the 18th centuries and musical merging of cultures associated with the drink.
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in Berg's Selections from Lyric Suite and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. James Ehnes plays the Korngold Violin Concerto.