Archive for January, 2020
Toccata listings 2/2/20
On tonight’s program, Charles Ives’ “Variations on America” for organ, music for piano 4 hands by Rubenstein, and music by Janacek for piano (left hand) and winds. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 1504 Charles Ives Variations on “America” Pro Organo 7198 SOLO Claudia Dumschat, organ 8:37 C 1 11-11 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:12 PM […]
Playlist: Jan/31/20
11:49 PM Ottorino Respighi — Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Conductor: AdrianoEnsemble: Slovak Radio SO, BratislavaM Polo/HK, 8223348 11:04 PM Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade Opus: 35Conductor: Seiji OzawaEnsemble: Chicago Symphony OrchestraAngel/EMI, 67784 10:43 PM Peteris Vasks — Lauda Conductor: Kriss RusmanisEnsemble: Riga Philharmonic OrchestraConifer, 51236 10:29 PM Aaron Jay Kernis — Musica Celestis Conductor: Anita BrevikEnsemble: […]
Thursday 1/30/20 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM James Ehnes returns to Heinz Hall with two greats – the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 and the Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso. Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, Dvorak’s Scherzo capriccioso and a PSO co-commission by Julia Wolfe – “Fountain of Youth”. Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s […]
Playlist: Jan/30/20
10:55 PM Claude Debussy — Etude retrouvee Bennett Lerner, pianoBridge, 9211 10:08 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 3 Key: E-Flat Opus: 55Conductor: George SzellEnsemble: Cleveland OrchestraCBS/Sony, 46328 10:00 PM Anthony Holborne — Pavan,Galliard and Almaine Ensemble: Folger ConsortBard, 9308 9:40 PM Cesar Cui — Three Scherzos Opus: 82Conductor: Valeri PolyanskyEnsemble: Russian State Symphony […]
Wednesday 01/29/20 Carnegie Hall Live
11:00 PM Guillaume Connesson Eiréné Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniel Harding, conductor Carnegie Hall 02/15/2019 Beethoven Richard Strauss Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major Opus 73 Ein Heldenleben, Opus 40 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniel Harding, […]
Playlist: Jan/29/20
10:36 PM Marguerite Canal — Violin Sonata Guillaume Chilemme, violin Nathanael Gouin, piano Maguelone, 111184 10:02 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 36 “Linz” Key: C Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in Fields Angel/EMI, 86107 9:45 PM Claude Debussy — Suite Bergamasque Livia Rev, piano Hyperion, 44061 […]
Tuesday 1/28/20 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor Juraj Valčuha and Violinist Christian Tetzlaff Haydn: Symphony No. 85 in B-flat Major (The Queen) Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (Christian Tetzlaff, violin) Lutosławski: Symphony No. 3 (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)
Playlist: Jan/28/20
5:00 AM 3717 Vincent d’Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air Op 25Naxos 550754 COND Antonio de Almeida ORCH National S.O. of Ireland SOLO Francois-Joel Thiollier,piano 26:11 C 1 3-5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5:26 AM 2574 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in c Op 17 “Little RussiLondon 460977 COND Sir Georg Solti Sir George SHOHL tee […]
Music From Movies 1-26-20
7:00 PM 7:00 PM Charlie Chaplin City Lights: Overture Silva 5006 COND Carl Davis ORCH The City Lights Orchestra ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:05 PM Camille Saint-Saens The Assassination of the Duke de Guise Harm Mundi 901472 ORCH Ensemble Musique Oblique ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:26 PM Pietro Mascagni Rapsodia Satanica Capriccio 5246 COND Frank Strobel ORCH Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil.
So two Norwegians walk into a radio station…
Well, one of us (Yours Truly) was already here. When I set up my recent interview with Tim Holtan, Artistic Director of the Maryland Winds, I had no idea I’d be meeting someone who’d grown up just two hours from my childhood hometown. That may not sound like a big deal unless you consider that […]
