Charles Ives worked most of his life as an insurance company executive.
Alexander Borodin was a highly-respected chemist.
And Henry VIII—well, you know all about him—or do you?
Because, like the others, he was a part-time composer.
In this hour, you’ll hear how each of them (and several others) managed to turn out some pretty impressive music in their spare time.
RECORDINGS USED
| CD Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
| Symphony No. 2, etc. [for Polovstian Dances] | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky | CHAN 9386 | 09115938621 |
| All Goodly Sports [for Henry VIII: “Green Groweth the Holly” and “Helas, Madame” ] | Sirinu | Chandos CHAN 0621 | 095115062128 |
| Calliope: Dances [for Henry VIII: “Tander Naken”] | Calliope | Nonesuch 79039 | 0075597903928 |
| Wassenaer: Concerti Armonici | Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman | Helios CDH55155 | 034571151557 |
| Russian Overtures & Orchestral Works [for Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude] | Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev | Newton Classics 8802037 | 8718247710379 |
| “From Greenland's Icy Mountains” [1909 archival recording] | Edison Mixed Quartet | - | Public Domain |
| Charles Ives: The String Quartets | Blair String Quartet | Naxos 8.559178 | 636943917824 |
| Hanson Conducts Moore, Carpenter, Rogers and Phillips [for Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator] | Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Howard Hanson | Mercury Living Presence 434 319-2 | 028943431927 |
