Archive for September, 2013
Playlist: Sep/17/13
10:49 PM Franz Joseph Haydn — Concertino No. 11 Key: CWu Han, pianoJorja Fleezanis, violinErin Keefe, violinDavid Finckel, celloMusic@Menl, 20103 10:36 PM Giuseppe Verdi — MacBeth: Act III: Ballet Music Conductor: James LevineEnsemble: Metropolitan Opera OrchestraCBS/Sony, 52489 10:17 PM Luigi Boccherini — Cello Concerto No. 2 Key: DConductor: William BoughtonEnsemble: English String OrchestraAlexander Michejew, celloNimbus, […]
Monday 9/16/13 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Michelle De Young, mezzo-soprano; New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection
Play+work=plork & plorkology
The University of Baltimore’s new imprint, Plork Press, is excited to launch its first publication on October 3rd. It’s an anthology of stories, poems and essays, and each of the 150 copies is entirely hand made from start to finish. What is “plork” you may ask. Project leader, Meredith Purvis, explains …
Playlist: Sep/16/13
10:45 PM Gabriel Faure — Theme & Variations Key: c-Sharp Opus: 73Kathryn Stott,pianoHyperion, 66911 10:13 PM Anton Arensky — Suite No.3 “Variations” Key: COpus: 33Conductor: Evgeny SvetlanovEnsemble: USSR Symphony OrchestraMelodiya, 1000148 9:44 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Serenade Key: GEnsemble: I MusiciPhilips, 438748 9:15 PM Sir Edward Elgar — Harmony Music No.5 Ensemble: Athena EnsembleChandos, […]
09/15/13 Toccata Rundown
6:00 PM Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue “The Jig” in G BWV 577 RCA/BMG 68816 SOLO Virgil Fox,organ _________________________________________________________________ 6:07 PM Richard Strauss Piano Sonata in b Op 5 Arabesque 6664 SOLO David Golub,piano _________________________________________________________________ 6:34 PM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Concerto in e WQ 24 Bis 857 ORCH Concerto Armonico SOLO Miklos Spanyi, tangent piano
Blown Away by Glass!
My great aunt had a couple of millefiori glass paperweights which looked a bit like this one. Roughly speaking, millefiori is a technique in which different shapes are produced in glass. Often the shapes resemble flowers, or candy or candy flowers. 🙂 As a child, I was insatiably curious about […]
Playlist: Sep/15/13
8:10 PM Franz Schubert — Piano Trio No. 2 Key: E-Flat Opus: 100Joseph Kalichstein, pianoJaime Laredo, violinSharon Robinson, celloBridge, 9376 8:00 PM Christoph Willibald Gluck — Orfeo ed Eurydice: Ballet Music Conductor: Donald RunniclesEnsemble: San Francisco Opera OrchestraTeldec, 98418 6:34 PM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Concerto Key: eEnsemble: Concerto ArmonicoMiklos Spanyi, tangent pianoBis, 857 […]
09/14/13 Vocalise Rundown
8:00 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op 34/14 RCA/BMG 70931 COND Leopold Stokowski ORCH American Symphony Orchestra SOLO Anna Moffo, soprano ___________________________________________________________________ 8:07 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel CBC(RCI) 1115 SOLO Gerald Finley, baritone SOLO Stephen Ralls, piano ___________________________________________________________________ 8:31 PM Richard Strauss Six Songs Chandos 9166 COND Neeme Jarvi ORCH Royal Scottish National […]
9-14-13 Face The Music Listings
Face The Music was a treat this week…an oldie but a goodie. We loved pretty much everything especially the Brahms. Our panel was Eva Mengelkoch from Towson University, Charles Ellis from the Prince George’s Philharmonic and WBJC’s very own Kati Harrison. Hope you enjoyed the show. We really did… PLAY DATE: Sat, 09/14/2013 5:00 […]
09/21/13 – The Magic Flute – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera THE MAGIC FLUTE by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Recorded Summer 2012, War Memorial Opera House. Endlessly inventive, charmingly fantastical and utterly unique, Mozart’s final opera is a profound yet lighthearted tale of romantic love, spiritual transcendence and the beguiling art of birdcatching. The internationally acclaimed ensemble cast is led by Rory Macdonald, an exciting young […]
