Archive for April, 2014
4/26/14 – Vocalise Rundown
8:00 PM Many thanks to Jonathan Palevsky who will fill in for me tonight with his own celebration of the voice! Igor Stravinsky — Symphony of Psalms Conductor: Sir Georg Solti Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus London, 458898 Igor Stravinsky — Vom Himmel Hoch Conductor: Robert Craft Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gregg Smith […]
Playlist: Apr/26/14
8:39 PM Reynaldo Hahn — Venezia – Songs in the Venetian Dialect Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenorHyperion, 66112 8:32 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Adelaide Opus: 46Jussi Bjoerling, tenorHarry Ebert, pinaoNimbus, 7842 8:21 PM Igor Stravinsky — Vom Himmel Hoch Conductor: Robert CraftEnsemble: Orchestra of St. Luke’sGregg Smith SingersMusicMaste, 67113 8:00 PM Igor Stravinsky — Symphony […]
Playlist: Apr/25/14
11:54 PM Dietrich Buxtehude — Chaconne (Orch. Chavez) Key: eConductor: Keri-Lynn WilsonEnsemble: Bolivar Symph.Orch./VenezuelaDorian, 90254 11:24 PM Sir William Walton — Violin Concerto Key: bConductor: Andrew LittonEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraTasmin Little, violinLondon, 444114 11:18 PM Umberto Giordano — Andrea Chenier:”La mamma morta” Conductor: Tullio SerafinEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraMaria Callas, sopranoAngel/EMI, 65986 10:57 PM Ludwig van Beethoven […]
Thursday 04/24/14 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Arild Remmereit, conductor; Gil Shaham, violin MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1, “Winter Dreams”
Playlist: Apr/24/14
10:22 PM Mikhail Glinka — A Life for the Tsar: Ballet Music Conductor: Efrem KurtzEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraAngel/EMI, 67729 9:58 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Opus: 43Conductor: Claudio AbbadoEnsemble: Berlin PhilharmonicMikhail Pletnev, pianoDG/Archiv, 457583 9:50 PM Modest Moussorgsky — Boris Godunov: Polonaise Conductor: Evgeny SvetlanovEnsemble: USSR Symphony OrchestraCh du Mond, 278820 […]
On a Grand Scale
Maryland born artist, Joseph Sheppard, is exhibiting a collection of realist still life and landscape paintings, all of which measure at least one meter in each direction. A long time listener to WBJC, he came into the studios […]
Wednesday 04/23 /14 Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
11:00 PM SOLOISTS: Byol Kang, violin; Alissa Margulis, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Gustav Rivinius, cello Franz Schubert String Quartet in D Major, D. 94 SOLOISTS: Lars Vogt, piano; Alissa Margulis, violin; Byol Kang, violin; Maya Meron, viola; Gustav Rivinius, cello; Heimbach Strings Benjamin Britten Young Apollo for Piano, String Quartet and Strings, Op. 16 SOLOISTS: Christian Tetzlaff, violin; […]
Playlist: Apr/23/14
10:45 PM Maurice Ravel — Le Tombeau de Couperin Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber OrchestraDG/Archiv, 449186 10:22 PM Felix Mendelssohn — String Quartet No. 6 Key: fOpus: 80Ensemble: Carmina QuartetDenon, 576527 10:11 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams — Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 Key: eConductor: Paul DanielEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraNaxos, 8557276 9:44 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. […]
Tuesday 04/22/14 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Sir Mark Elder conducts Shostakovich Dvorák: The Golden Spinning Wheel Berlioz: Les Nuits d’Été (Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 Rimsky-Korsakov: Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh
Playlist: Apr/22/14
10:36 PM Camille Saint-Saens — Piano Concerto No. 2 Key: gOpus: 22Conductor: Mario BernardiEnsemble: CBC Vancouver OrchestraStephane Lemelin, pianoCBC(RCI), 5178 9:55 PM Leo Delibes — Sylvia: Act 1 Conductor: Richard BonyngeEnsemble: New Philharmonia OrchestraLondon, 425475 9:46 PM Johann Strauss II — Roses from the South Opus: 388Conductor: Willi BoskovskyEnsemble: Vienna Symphony OrchestraLondon, 4780228 9:19 PM […]
