Archive for April, 2012
Playlist: Apr/27/12
11:46 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 Key: eOpus: 27Conductor: Yuri TemirkanovEnsemble: Baltimore Symphony OrchestraBSOrch, 1 11:35 PM Igor Stravinsky — Ebony Concerto for Clarinet Conductor: Michael Tilson ThomasEnsemble: New World SymphonyJerome Simas, clarinetMark Niehaus, trumpetRCA/BMG, 68798 11:19 PM Ennio Morricone — Sergio Leone Suite Conductor: Ennio MorriconeEnsemble: Roma Sinfonietta OrchestraYo-Yo Ma, celloCBS/Sony, 93456 […]
Thursday 04/26/12 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Leonard Slatkin Clarinetist: Michael Rusinek clarinet BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront TOWER: Concerto for Clarinet COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Fill: John Williams: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Some of My Best Friends are Contemporary Composers
Continuing my comments on contemporary composers begun a few blogs ago, one could certainly write a book, or indeed fill several library shelves with books on the topic. Come to think of it, some people already have. Sometime around the 1970’s composers began to notice no one wanted to hear their music. Nonetheless, symphony orchestras […]
Playlist: Apr/26/12
10:25 PM Leonid Sabaneyev — Suite for Woodwind Quintet Ensemble: Ensemble VientoCentaur, 2211 10:16 PM Carl Michael Ziehrer — Viennese Citizens Waltz (Wiener Burger) Opus: 419Conductor: Lorin MaazelEnsemble: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraRCA/BMG, 68421 9:49 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 Key: COpus: 21Conductor: Philippe HerrewegheEnsemble: Royal Flemish PhilharmonicPentatone, 5186313 9:44 PM Giuseppe Verdi — […]
Wednesday 04/25/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM Conductor: David Robertson Pianist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin Benjamin: Duet for Piano and Orchestra Messiaen: Un vitrail et des oiseaux Keuris: Sinfonia Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Brass on Broadway!
Trumpeter and Artistic Director Phil Snedecor blew into the WBJC studios to talk about the next concert by the Washington Symphonic Brass- The Best of All Possible Worlds: Brass on Broadway this coming Saturday and Sunday. Listen here! Phil Snedecor Brass on Broadway Interview
Your first time…
In our April newsletter, we asked readers to write in about their earliest musical experience. Everyone at the station is thoroughly enjoying your stories! We’ll be posting a few at a time over the next few weeks, so keep checking back. Member John Fay of Wheaton, MD writes: I can’t remember when good music […]
Playlist: Apr/25/12
10:49 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Sonata No. 15 (or 16) Key: CIngrid Haebler, pianoDenon, 73087 10:35 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Greensleeves Conductor: Vernon HandleyEnsemble: BBC Philharmonic OrchestraChandos, 9 9:58 PM Geirr Tveitt — A Hundred Hardanger Tunes: Opus: 151Conductor: Bjarte EngesetEnsemble: Royal Scottish National OrchesNaxos, 8555770 9:13 PM Peter Ilyich […]
Tuesday 04/24/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Riccardo Muti Schubert: Entr’acte No 3 from Rosamunde Clyne: Night Ferry (CSO Commission, World Premiere) Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C Major, D 944, Great Falla: Suite No 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Playlist: Apr/24/12
11:00 PM Maurice Ravel — Rapsodie Espagnole Conductor: Jean MartinonEnsemble: Chicago Symphony OrchestraRCA/BMG, 63683 11:00 PM Manuel de Falla — Three-cornered Hat Suite No. 2 Conductor: Josep PonsEnsemble: Orquesta Ciudad de GranadaHarm Mundi, 901606 11:00 PM Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 9 Key: CConductor: John Eliot GardinerEnsemble: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraDG/Archiv, 457648 11:00 PM Franz Schubert […]
