Archive for August, 2022
Playlist: Aug/08/22
10:23 PM George Frederich Handel — Water Music Suite No. 1 Key: F major Conductor: Ton KoopmanErato, 91716 10:17 PM Mikhail Glinka — Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture Conductor: Fritz ReinerRCA/BMG, 5605 10:01 PM Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf — String Quintet No. 6 Key: G major Ensemble: Franz Schubert QuartetJulius Berger, celloCPO, 999122 9:16 PM Peter […]
Music From Movies 8-07-22
7:00 PM Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5: Adagietto DG/Archiv 445486 COND Leonard Bernstein ORCH Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 7:21 PM David Raksin Laura RCA/BMG 60392 COND Arthur Fiedler ORCH Boston Pops Orchestra 7:25 PM Alexander Courage The Menagerie: Suite orig. pilot for TV Telarc 80106 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH […]
Playlist: Aug/07/22
8:45 PM Igor Stravinsky — Dumbarton Oaks Concerto Key: E flat major Conductor: Robert CraftMusicMaste, 67113 8:15 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Trio No.5 Key: D major Opus: 70Angel/EMI, 54579 7:48 PM Ryuichi Sakamoto — The Last Emperor: Music from the Film Conductor: Gavyn WrightVirgin, 2485 7:34 PM James Horner — Suite fr: Star […]
Vocalise 8-06-22
8:00 PM Giuseppe Verdi- Ernani: “Sorta e la notte…Ernani, invoLaserLight 15223 SOLO Maria Callas, soprano 8:07 PM Gustav Mahler- Kindertotenlieder Philips 426249 COND Seiji Ozawa ORCH Boston Symphony Orchestra SOLO Jessye Norman, soprano 8:33 PM Renato Rascel- Arrivederci Roma London 4788408 COND Carlo Tenan ORCH Gioachino Rossini Orchestra SOLO Juan Diego Florez, tenor 8:36 PM […]
8-6-22 Face The Music Listings
This week we are re-running a show from 2014! A good year! Our panel was tuba player Ed Goldstein and Phil Greenfield from The American Record Guide. I love the Stravinsky Vom Himmel Hoch, what could be nicer than Christmas and Stravinsky! PLAY DATE: Sat, 8/6/2022 5:00 PM 39268 Igor Stravinsky Vom Himmel Hoch MusicMaste […]
8-6-22 Music in Maryland Gershwin in honor of New Member Month
Today’s 31 in 31 is George Gershwin! I though it would be nice to sample some of the BSO’s Gershwin recordings and threw in some Barber and Still for good measure! PLAY DATE: Sat, 08/06/2022 6:07 PM 106 George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue London 14091 COND Marin Alsop ORCH Baltimore Symphony Orchestra SOLO Jean-Yves Thibaudet, […]
East Germany’s Stasi and America’s CIA on BookNotes
The 13th novel of spy craft and international intrigue by former foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, Dan Fesperman, is called Winter Work, and it’s set during the chaotic first months after the Berlin Wall came down.
Playlist: Aug/06/22
8:44 PM Franz Schubert — Of Narrow Nows & Vast Hereafters(songs Conductor: Robert ShawEnsemble: Robert Shaw Chamber SingersMembers of…Telarc, 80340 8:40 PM Gioacchino Rossini — La Danza Conductor: Carlo TenanEnsemble: Gioachino Rossini OrchestraJuan Diego Florez, tenorLondon, 4788408 8:36 PM Gioacchino Rossini — Bolero Conductor: Carlo TenanEnsemble: Gioachino Rossini OrchestraJuan Diego Florez, tenorLondon, 4788408 8:33 PM […]
Playlist: Aug/05/22
10:54 PM Sir Edward Elgar — The Sanguine Fan: ballet-music Opus: 81Conductor: Bryden ThomsonChandos, 7038 10:13 PM Johannes Brahms — Violin Concerto Key: D major Opus: 77Conductor: Issay DobrowenEnsemble: Philharmonia OrchestraGinette Neveu, violinIDIS, 320 10:01 PM Richard Wagner — Gotterdammerung: Conductor: Klaus TennstedtAngel/EMI, 86248 9:37 PM Stephen Dankner — Symphony No. 3 “Song of Solomon” […]
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company almost has the key to the door
Twenty years ago, a small group of gifted and optimistic artists opened a brand-new Shakespeare company in Ellicott City on a shoestring budget, and now the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is looking forward to a year-long 20th anniversary season. I spoke with Producing Executive Director, Lesley Malin.
