Archive for August, 2021
Playlist: Aug/27/21
11:57 PM Sir Arthur Sullivan — Pineapple Poll- Ballet Conductor: David Lloyd-JonesNaxos, 8570351 11:38 PM Giacomo Puccini — Suor Angelica: “Senza Mamma,O Bimbo…” Conductor: Anton CoppolaEnsemble: Orch. Sinfonico of Milan VerdiAngela Gheorghiu,sopranoAngel/EMI, 32355 10:55 PM Erkki Melartin — Symphony No.4,”Summer Symphony” Opus: 80Conductor: Leonid GrinEnsemble: Tampere Philharmonic OrchestraPia Freund,sopranoLilli Paasikivi,mezzoLaura Nykanen,contraltoOndine, 822 10:29 PM Franz […]
Thursday 08/26/21 Carnegie Hall Live
11:00 PM Berlin Philharmonic Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Stravinsky – Closing scenes from The Firebird New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 with Evgeny Kissin, piano Munich Philharmonic Valery Gergiev, conductor Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 Sheku Kanneh Mason, cello and Isata Kanneh, piano Rachmaninoff – Sonata in G minor […]
Playlist: Aug/26/21
10:56 PM Johannes Brahms — Romance Key: F major Opus: 118Sarah Beth Briggs, pianoAvie, 2398 10:29 PM Robert Schumann — Piano Trio No.1 Key: D minor Opus: 63Emil Gilels, pianoLeonid Kogan, violinMstislav Rostropovich, celloDG/Archiv, 4777476 9:56 PM Sir William Walton — Violin Concerto Key: B minor Conductor: Andrew LittonEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraTasmin Little, violinLondon, 444114 […]
Celebrating Women’s Equality Day with Poetry
To mark the annual celebration of Women’s Equality Day—commemorating the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote—I spoke with Teri Ellen Cross Davis, award-winning poet and Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Wednesday 08/25/21 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOIST: Carolin Widmann, violin Hindemith: Rag Time (on a theme of J.S. Bach) Weill: Violin Concerto Bach/Schoenberg: Two Chorale Preludes “Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele,” BWV 654 “Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist,” BWV 667 Hindemith: Symphony: Mathis der Maler
Playlist: Aug/25/21
10:23 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 25 Key: C major Conductor: Leonard BernsteinEnsemble: Israel Philharmonic OrchestraLeonard Bernstein, pianoCBS/Sony, 47519 10:04 PM Giacomo Meyerbeer — Robert Diable: Act 3, Ballet of the Nuns Conductor: Michal NesterowiczNaxos, 8573076 9:31 PM Antonin Dvorak — Violin Concerto Key: A minor Opus: 53Conductor: Sir Charles MackerrasEnsemble: Czech […]
Tuesday 08/24/21 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Haitink Conducts Beethoven & Brahms Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Playlist: Aug/24/21
10:47 PM Gioacchino Rossini — Semiramide: Overture Conductor: Riccardo MutiOrfeo, 867121 9:59 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 3 Key: D major Opus: 29Conductor: Andrew LittonVirgin, 90761 9:37 PM Johannes Brahms — Ballades Opus: 10Stephen Hough, pianoHyperion, 67237 8:59 PM Wilhelm Stenhammar — Serenade Key: F major Opus: 31Conductor: Esa-Pekka SalonenMusSvecia, 626 8:28 PM […]
Monday 08/23/21 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Alan Gilbert, Conductor Lisa Batiashvili, Violin LINDBERG: Arena SIBELIUS: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2
WETATI GALA
I had the chance to talk to Vivian Ebesike and Saba Nafees about the Ann Reece Carswell Scholarship Gala recently. For more information check http://www.WETATI.org/convention
