Archive for January, 2023
BookNotes Review January 2023
Seasonal Work Laura Lippman One: Simple One-pan Wonders Jamie Oliver MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo A Message From Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Playlist: Jan/21/23
8:33 PM Sir Edward Elgar — Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Conductor: Christopher RobinsonEnsemble: Cambridge University Ch. ChoirIain Farrington, pianoNaxos, 570541 8:28 PM Henri Duparc — Serenade florintine Conductor: Yan Pascal TortelierEnsemble: Ulster OrchestraBernadette Greevy, contraltoChandos, 8735 8:24 PM Henri Duparc — La Vie anterieure Conductor: Yan Pascal TortelierEnsemble: Ulster OrchestraBernadette Greevy, contraltoChandos, 8735 8:18 […]
Toccata listings for 1/22/23
Well, this is the program that should have aired last week, but, accidents do happen, so we’ll try it again! A couple of organ works by Durufle, music by Hummel played on a “Military Piano,” and a piano concerto by a composer once referred to as ” The Cockney Wagner.” Thanks again for listening, and […]
Playlist: Jan/20/23
11:34 PM Jean-Baptiste Lully — Te Dieum Conductor: Jean-Francois PailliardErato, 88122 11:02 PM Antonin Dvorak — Serenade for Strings Key: E major Opus: 22Conductor: Yuli TurovskyChandos, 9484 10:44 PM Franz Liszt — Ballade No. 2 Key: B minor Stephen Hough, pianoHyperion, 67085 10:38 PM Franz Liszt — Ballade No.1: Le chant du croise Key: D […]
Thursday 1/19/23 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM SIBELIUS: Pohjola’s Daughter PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 Pietari Inkinen, conductor; Beatrice Rana, piano
Playlist: Jan/19/23
10:32 PM Antonin Dvorak — Serenade for Winds Key: D minor Opus: 44DG/Archiv, 415364 9:59 PM Johannes Brahms — Piano Sonata No. 1 Key: C major Opus: 1Sviatoslav Richter,pianoCh du Mond, 354006 9:28 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 38 Key: DConductor: Sir Neville MarrinerPhilips, 438332 9:04 PM Joaquin Rodrigo — Concierto de Aranjuez […]
February 11th, 2023 – Historic Met Opera Broadcast
On Saturday, February 11, there will be a historic Metropolitan Opera broadcast not heard since it was aired live in 1970: Leonard Bernstein leading Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, part of a double bill with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, in a celebrated production by Franco Zeffirelli. This special broadcast is timed to mark the centenary of Zeffirelli’s birth. Leonard Bernstein’s appearances at the […]
Wednesday 1/18/23 European Broadcasting Union Series
11:00 PM ORCHESTRA: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra CONDUCTOR: Thomas Dausgaard SOLOIST: Jörg Widmann, clarinet Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, op. 29 (‘Inextinguishable’)
Playlist: Jan/18/23
10:38 PM Johannes Brahms — Clarinet Sonata No. 2 Key: E flat major Catalog No.: 2 Opus: 120Stanley Drucker, clarinetLeonid Hambro, pianoElysium, 720 10:12 PM Cesar Cui — Orchestral Suite No.4 Opus: 40Conductor: Robert StankovskyM Polo/HK, 8223400 10:04 PM Gioacchino Rossini — Tancredi: Overture Conductor: Riccardo ChaillyLondon, 414407 9:37 PM Francois de Fossa — Guitar […]
Tuesday 1/17/23 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Bach/Wilhelmj: Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 Shostakovich/Barshai: Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10 Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
