Archive for June, 2021
Wednesday 06/30/21 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Gustavo Dudamel SOLOISTS: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano* Yuja Wang, piano** Jessie Montgomery: Banner Gershwin: Concerto in F* John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (world premiere, LA Phil commission)** Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Playlist: Jun/30/21
10:32 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 5 Key: AOpus: 18Ensemble: Emerson String QuartetDG/Archiv, 447076 9:22 PM Anton Bruckner — Symphony No. 4 Key: E-Flat Conductor: Esa-Pekka SalonenEnsemble: Los Angeles PhilharmonicCBS/Sony, 63301 9:00 PM Jiri Antonin Benda — Viola Concerto Key: FConductor: Christian BendaEnsemble: Suk Chamber OrchestraJoseph Suk, violaNaxos, 8553994 8:36 PM Sergei […]
Tuesday 06/29/21 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Alsop & Hahn Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (Hilary Hahn, violin) Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Washington International Piano Competition
I recently had the chance to talk to Diane Merriam of the Washington International Piano competition, which will be holding its 18 piano competition at the end of July. For more information, the website is www.wipac.org.
Playlist: Jun/29/21
10:35 PM Luigi Boccherini — Guitar Quintet No. 9 Key: CEnsemble: Bingham String QuartetJason Carter, guitarASV, 6244 10:00 PM Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin,Cello & Orch. Key: aOpus: 102Conductor: Herbert von KarajanEnsemble: Berlin PhilharmonicAnne-Sophie Mutter, violinAntonio Meneses, celloDG/Archiv, 410603 9:53 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Eugene Onegin: Waltz Opus: 24Conductor: Eugene OrmandyEnsemble: The […]
Phony-business
I think that public broadcasting, radio and television is more telephone oriented than any other broadcast media. We have, for years, relied on the telephone to ask for the funds it takes to run our operations. Where would pledge drives be without the phone? Well, we are finding out, thanks to the pandemic. It wasn’t […]
Monday 06/28/21 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Alan Gilbert, Conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano WEBERN: Im Sommerwind MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 WEBERN: Symphony, Op. 21 SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2
Playlist: Jun/28/21
10:26 PM Robert Schumann — Piano Sonata No. 3 Key: fOpus: 14Nikolai Demidenko, pianoHyperion, 66864 10:00 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — La Clemenza di Tito: Highlights (arr. Conductor: Julius RudelEnsemble: The Amadeus EnsembleMusicMaste, 67118 9:05 PM Franz Schubert — String Quintet Key: COpus: 163Ensemble: Cleveland QuartetYo-Yo Ma, celloCBS/Sony, 39134 9:00 PM Leonard Bernstein — Candide […]
Parting Thoughts
If you’ve listened to the afternoon show today, or perhaps Listener’s Choice this past Friday, you will have heard that today, June 27th, was my last day on WBJC. Some of you have likely already heard that I’m only going up two hours on I-95 to Philadelphia, to take over the morning slot on WRTI. […]
Music From Movies 06-27-21
7:00 PM Hans Zimmer: The Lion King (Selections) Disney 1994 COND Nick Glennie-Smith ORCH Studio Orchestra 7:05 PM Modest Moussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain DG/Archiv 4796297 COND Gustavo Dudamel ORCH Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 7:17 PM Michael Giacchino: The Incredibles (soundtrack) Disney 2004 COND Tim Simonec ORCH Studio Orchestra […]
