Archive for September, 2021
9-4-21. Music in Maryland – Rosh Hashanah!
Some music for Jewish New Year’s which begins on Monday Night! PLAY DATE: Sat, 09/04/2021 6:00 PM 9280 Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 CBS/Sony 58966 ORCH Juilliard String Quartet SOLO Giora Feidman,clarinet SOLO Yefim Bronfman, piano Yeh FEEM BRAHNF mihn 10:26 C 1 9-9 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:11 PM 7868 Ernest Bloch Baal Shem: […]
Vocalise 09/04/21
8:00 PM Charles Gounod: Faust: Jewel Song (Marguerite’s aria) Erato 45797 COND Alain Lombard ORCH Strasbourg Philharmonic Orch SOLO Rhine Opera Chorus SOLO Montserrat Caballe, soprano 8:05 PM Roger Quilter: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Op 12 Virgin 91105 SOLO Thomas Allen, baritone SOLO Geoffrey Parsons, piano 8:21 PM Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 DG/Archiv 431261 […]
Booknotes talks to indie publisher, Woodhall Press
Woodhall Press is an independent publisher operating (mainly) out of Connecticut. I spoke with CEO, David LeGere, and COO, Matthew Winkler, about the landscape for indie presses in the current publishing climate.
Playlist: Sep/04/21
8:36 PM Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Romancero Gitano Conductor: Peter RutenbergEnsemble: Los Angeles Chamber SingersGregory NewtonRCM, 19802 8:21 PM Johannes Brahms — Alto Rhapsody Opus: 53Conductor: Giuseppe SinopoliEnsemble: Czech Philharmonic OrchestraBrigitte Fassbaender,contraltoPrague Philharmonic ChorusDG/Archiv, 431261 8:05 PM Roger Quilter — Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Opus: 12Thomas Allen, baritoneGeoffrey Parsons, pianoVirgin, 91105 8:00 PM Charles Gounod — Faust: […]
Toccata listings for 9/5/21
On tonight’s program, music by two remarkable musicians, Georges Enescu and Camille Saint-Saens. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 43075 Georges Enescu Suite No. 3 for Piano Op 18 Avie 13 SOLO Luiza Borac, piano 36:54 C 1 9-15 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:40 PM 15966 Camille Saint-Saens Cypres et Lauriers for Organ & Orchestra Vox/MMG […]
Playlist: Sep/03/21
10:41 PM Erkki Melartin — Symphony No. 6 Opus: 100Conductor: Jussi JalasYLE, 101 10:15 PM Claude Debussy — Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Conductor: Jac van SteenEnsemble: Royal Philharmonic OrchestraValerie Tryon,piano , 258 10:06 PM Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Die Tote Stadt: Mariettas Lied Gluck Conductor: Julius RudelEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraBeverly Sills, sopranoDG/Archiv, 471766 9:52 […]
Thursday 09/02/21 Carnegie Hall Live
11:00 PM Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano Berlioz: Death of Cleopatra Munich Philharmonic and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Valery Gergiev, conductor Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, complete ballet score Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Debussy: Images
Playlist: Sep/02/21
10:43 PM Maurice Ravel — Mother Goose Suite Ensemble: Quintette MoraguesClaire Desert, pianoCh du Mond, 2781116 10:00 PM Antonin Dvorak — Legends Opus: 59Conductor: David ZinmanNonesuch, 79066 9:23 PM Antonin Reicha — Wind Quintet No. 23 Key: A minor Opus: 100Naxos, 8550432 8:59 PM Edvard Grieg — Peer Gynt: Suites Conductor: Leonard SlatkinTelarc, 80048 8:31 […]
WBJC Operafest 9/11/21-11/27/21
September 11, 2021 OPERA: Tancredi (in Italian) COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini LIBRETTO: Gaetano Rossi VENUE: National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM PRESENTING COMPANY: Opera Southwest CAST: Tancredi Heather Johnson Amenaide Lindsay Ohse Argirio Heath Huberg Orbazzano Matthew Curran Isaura Madelyn Wanner Roggiero Chelsea Duval-Major ENSEMBLE: Opera Southwest Orchestra CHORUS: Opera Southwest Chorus STAGE DIRECTOR: David Bartholemew […]
9-1-21 Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto…Revisiting an old friend.
We see a host of savage, vulgar faces, we hear crude curses, and smell the booze. In the course of a discussion of obscene illustrations, Friedrich Vischer once maintained that there were pictures in which one could see stink. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for the first time confronts us with the hideous idea […]
