Ricky Ian Gordon has written a cycle of songs about flowers. In this episode, we hear one of them. Rachmaninoff wrote a song called “Lilacs.” We hear that, too. Bach opens his Goldberg Variations with an aria (and closes the work with that same aria). Tchaikovsky’s wrote a couple of blockbuster arias in The Queen of Spades. And on we go.Gordon, “We should not mind so small a flower”Rachmaninoff, “Lilacs”Bach, Goldberg VariationsTchaikovsky, Lisa’s Aria from Act III of “The Queen of Spades”Tchaikovsky, Prince Yeletsky’s Aria, Act II, “The Queen of Spades”Tchaikovsky, “It was in early spring”Shostakovich, Prelude in D-flat majorBach-Kempff, Siciliano