Archive for April, 2023
BookNotes Review April 2023
Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld Symphony of Secrets Brendan Slocumb Chita Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Playlist: Apr/22/23
8:55 PM Dame Ethel Smyth — The March of the Women Conductor: Phillip BrunelleVirgin, 91188 8:38 PM Henry Purcell — My heart is inditing Ensemble: ChanticleerCapriccio StravaganteTeldec, 60290 8:12 PM Dmitri Shostakovich — From Jewish Folk Poetry Opus: 79Conductor: Bernard HaitinkEnsemble: Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraElisabeth Soderstrom, sopranoOrtrun Wenkel, contraltoRyszard Karczykowski, tenorLondon, 417581 8:06 PM Vincenzo Bellini […]
MY DEAREST JANE cabaret at Theatre Project
It was my pleasure to speak with writer/composer/performer Meg Huskin and stage director Elisheva Pront, who along with music director Ryo Hasegawa have conceived and created an original musical cabaret about, and in conversation with, beloved author Jane Austen. The new piece, entitled My Dearest Jane, draws on text and characters created by Austen, mixing these […]
Playlist: Apr/21/23
11:49 PM Alan Hovhaness — Symphony No.50 “Mount St. Helens” Opus: 360Conductor: Gerard SchwarzDelos, 3137 11:31 PM Sergei Prokofiev — Piano Sonata No. 4 Opus: 29Nikolai Lugansky, pianoWarnerBros, 61255 11:01 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Missa Solemnis – Mass Key: D major Opus: 123Conductor: John Eliot GardinerEnsemble: Orch Revolutionnaire et RomantMonteverdi ChoirLucy Crowe, sopranoJennifer Johnson, […]
Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski at Shriver Hall
Polish-born pianist Piotr Anderszewski returns to Baltimore for the first time in 10 years in a program of Bach, Szymanowski, Anton Webern, and Beethoven at Shriver Hall. I spoke to him in Paris.
Thursday 4/20/23 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM MARSALIS: Fanfare BRITTEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade Manfred Honeck, conductor; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Playlist: Apr/20/23
10:37 PM Joaquin Rodrigo — Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar & Orch. Conductor: John Eliot GardinerEnsemble: Monteverdi OrchestraJulian Bream, guitarRCA/BMG, 61605 10:01 PM Antonin Dvorak — String Quintet Key: E flat major Opus: 97Ensemble: Vlach QuartetLadislav Kyselak, violaNaxos, 8553376 9:46 PM Hector Berlioz — Rob Roy overture Conductor: Sir Alexander GibsonChandos, 8316 9:08 PM Nikolai […]
Wednesday 4/19/23 San Francisco Symphony
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOISTS: Jeremy Denk, piano*; Claire Chase, Flute** Debussy: Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques* Kaija Saariaho: Aile du songe** Debussy: La Mer
Playlist: Apr/19/23
10:23 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quintet No. 4 Key: G minor Ensemble: Quartet YsayeHatto Beyerle, violaHarm Mundi, 905203 9:26 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 Key: E minor Opus: 27Conductor: Vladimir AshkenazyLondon, 448116 9:17 PM John Field — Nocturne No. 14 Key: C major Maria Rose, FortepianoNewport, 60130 9:00 PM Germaine Tailleferre […]
Tuesday 4/18/23 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM This week, Jakub Hrůša leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony. Soprano Joélle Harvey makes her CSO debut in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Opening the program is Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A Minor. Rounding out the broadcast, Rafael Kubelík conducts Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra and Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 […]
