Archive for September, 2017
9-30-17 Face The Music Listings!
This week our panel was made up of Jed Gaylin from the Hopkins and Bay Atlantic Symphonies, WBJC’s Kati Harrison and Tuba Player Ed Goldstein. The Bach Goldberg Variations with Mahan Esphahani really stole the show. We didn’t care for the Brahms cello sonata but the piano quintet was good. We liked the Chopin…I liked […]
Vocalise – 9/30/17
8:00 PM Richard Strauss Die Nacht Op 10 No.3 Philips 416298 SOLO Jessye Norman, soprano SOLO Geoffrey Parsons, piano 8:03 PM Henryk Gorecki Symphony No.3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Nonesuch 79282 COND David Zinman ORCH London Sinfonietta SOLO Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Playlist: Sep/30/17
8:03 PM Henryk Gorecki — Symphony No.3 Conductor: David ZinmanEnsemble: London SinfoniettaDawn Upshaw, sopranoNonesuch, 79282 8:00 PM Richard Strauss — Die Nacht Opus: 10Jessye Norman, sopranoGeoffrey Parsons, pianoPhilips, 416298 7:34 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Francesca da Rimini Key: eOpus: 32Conductor: David ZinmanEnsemble: Baltimore Symphony OrchestraTelarc, 80378 6:39 PM Richard Wagner — Parsifal: An Orchestral […]
9-30-17 Music In Maryland Shameless BSO Plug!
Next week the Baltimore Symphony has a super nice program and I’ve been working my you know what off doing the podcasts. The concert has two Scottish pieces and then excerpts from Parsifal…a great way to enjoy Wagner’s amazing music from his final opera without sitting through endless hours of staging. You can find out […]
Toccata listings 10/1/17
On tonight’s program, we start the month with organ music by Johann Pachelbel–not the Canon! also, and arrangement by Liszt of one of Beethoven’s symphonies. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 21852 Johann Pachelbel Hexachordum Apollinis:”Aria Prima” in d Centaur 2353 SOLO Joseph Payne, organ 7:21 C 1 4-4 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:12 […]
Playlist: Sep/29/17
11:40 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — English Suite No. 3 Key: gZuzana Ruzickova, harpsichordSupraphon, 111489 10:50 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 Key: eOpus: 27Conductor: Kirill KondrashinEnsemble: Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraNederland, 8005 10:42 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Cantata No. 68: “Mein glaubiges Herz” Conductor: Robert SadinKathleen Battle, sopranoAnthony Newman, organCharles Curtis, celloCBS/Sony, 62035 10:38 […]
Thursday 09/28/17 The Cleveland Orchestra
11:00 PM Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Evangelist) Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone (Christus) Lauren Snouffer, soprano Iestyn Davies, countertenor Nicholas Phan, tenor Cleveland Orchestra Chorus BACH: St. John Passion
Playlist: Sep/28/17
10:43 PM Franz Schubert — Violin Sonatina No. 3 Key: gOpus: 137Arnold Steinhardt,violinSeymour Lipkin, pianoNewport, 60174 10:18 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 33 Key: B-Flat Conductor: Claudio AbbadoEnsemble: Orchestra MozartDG/Archiv, 4777598 10:13 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Minuet Key: GConductor: Eugene OrmandyEnsemble: The Philadelphia OrchestraCBS/Sony, 45545 9:11 PM Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. […]
Wednesday 09-27-17 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart SOLOIST: Rachel Willis-Sørenson, soprano; Emanuel Ax, piano STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Opus 28 STRAUSS Four Last Songs BRAHMS Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 83
Playlist: Sep/27/17
10:29 PM Charles Tomlinson Griffes — Fantasy Pieces Opus: 6Michael Lewin, pianoNaxos, 8559046 9:45 PM Sir William Walton — Symphony No. 1 Key: b-Flat Conductor: Andre PrevinEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraRCA/BMG, 7830 9:35 PM Max Bruch — Adagio on Celtic Themes Opus: 56Conductor: Antoni WitEnsemble: Polish National Radio OrchestrJulius Berger, celloEBS, 6060 9:20 PM Edvard Grieg […]