Archive for October, 2017
Playlist: Oct/25/17
10:44 PM Ignace [Joseph] Pleyel — Concerto for Flute & Orch in G major Key: GConductor: Jean Pierre WallezEnsemble: Sonderjyllands Symphony OrchThomas Jensen, fluteDOM, 291036 10:19 PM Alan Hovhaness — String Quartet No.4 Opus: 208Ensemble: The Shanghai QuartetDelos, 3162 9:46 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 5 Key: cOpus: 67Conductor: Manfred HoneckEnsemble: Pittsburgh Symphony […]
Tuesday 10/24/17 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Daniil Trifonov and Semyon Bychkov play Rachmaninov Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Daniil Trifonov, piano) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (Tugan Sokhiev, conductor)
Pianist Jeremy Denk’s Baltimore recital debut
The Shriver Hall Concert Series is starting its 2017-2018 season at a different venue in Park Heights while JHU’s Shriver Hall is being renovated. Executive Director, Catherine Cochran, talks about the program that pianist Jeremy Denk will present as a season opener.
Playlist: Oct/24/17
10:51 PM Francesco Geminiani — Concerto Grosso No. 4 Key: DOpus: 2Conductor: Jaroslav KrcekEnsemble: Capella IstropolitanaNaxos, 553019 10:44 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Adagio for Violin and Orchestra Key: EConductor: James MacMillanEnsemble: Academy of St Martin in FieldsNicola Benedetti, violinDG/Archiv, 7682 10:09 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings Key: COpus: 48Conductor: Sir John […]
12/02/17 – Met Opera Returns with Verdi’s requiem @ 1pm!
Metropolitan Opera GIUSEPPE VERDI Requiem For the first time since 2008, James Levine conducts a special series of concerts of Verdi’s great mass, written in memory of Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni. The company has assembled a quartet of extraordinary soloists to join the incomparable Met Orchestra and Chorus: Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, […]
Who’s that new guy?
If you’ve tuned in lately to a non-symphony or Met broadcast and you’ve heard a voice you didn’t recognize, it is likely that you heard me. I’m John T.K. Scherch, the new guy, the freshman, or whichever other nickname(s) my colleagues or our dear listeners decide to give me. I also understand I’m the first […]
Fall Pledge Drive wrap-up
What an AMAZING pledge drive! Thanks you YOU, we overshot our goal! Thank you each and every one of you who called in your pledge of support for classical music. Whether you were new, renewing or making an additional gift, know that you helped keep Maryland’s Classical Music Station hale and hearty. We are off […]
A new music director for Baltimore Choral Arts
A new era begins for the Baltimore Choral Arts Society when Music Director, Anthony Blake Clark opens his inaugural season on Saturday, October 28. It was a pleasure to meet him and talk about it.
Monday 10/23/17 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM MAHLER: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano Walter Berry, baritone Leonard Bernstein, conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 Irmgard Seefried, soprano (Sir) Georg Solti, conductor
Playlist: Oct/23/17
10:44 PM Luigi Boccherini — Symphony No.13 Key: COpus: 37Conductor: Johannes GoritzkiEnsemble: German Chamber Academy, NeussCPO, 999176 10:36 PM Camille Saint-Saens — Romance Key: D-Flat Opus: 37Richard Stoltzman, clarinetNancy Allen, harpRCA/BMG, 60198 10:11 PM Antonin Dvorak — Czech Suite Opus: 39Conductor: Jose SerebrierEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraWarnerClas, 66656 10:07 PM Ede Poldini — Dancing Doll Andres […]
