Archive for June, 2024
Playlist: Jun/09/24
8:28 PM Antonin Dvorak — Piano Trio No. 4 Key: E minor Opus: 90Arabesque, 6726 7:44 PM Philip Glass — Hours: Selections Ensemble: Studio OrchestraMicheal Riesman,keyboardsNonesuch, 79693 7:30 PM Nicola Piovani — Life is Beautiful Suite Conductor: Dirk Brosse, conductorLPO, 110 7:15 PM John Williams — Harry Potter Suite Conductor: John WilliamsDG/Archiv, 34852 7:06 PM […]
Vocalise 6-08-24
8:00 PM PLAY DATE: Sat, 06/08/2024 8:00 PM 54271 Robert Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri RCA/BMG 69727155 COND Nikolaus Harnoncourt Nikolaus HAR nuhn kort ORCH Bavarian Radio Symphony SOLO Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus SOLO Dorothea Roschmann,soprano SOLO Bernarda Fink, contralto SOLO Werner Gura, tenor SOLO Christian Gerhaher, baritone 141:00 C 1 1-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6-8-24 Face The Music Listings!
This week we are re-running a vintage show from 6-18-2016 with the late Tuba Player Ed Goldstein, the late Dave Donovan FTM Panelist Emeritus and Phil Greenfield from The American Record Guide. We loved the Ravel with Marvelous Martha and the Schumann with Jan Lisiecki. The Adler was interesting and worth hearing more of and […]
6-8-2024 Music In Maryland…Schumann!
Robert Schumann was born in 1810 on this day and I thought it would be nice to celebrate this troubled but brilliant master. PLAY DATE: Sat, 06/08/2024 6:00 PM 31833 Dietrich Buxtehude Chaconne (Orch. Chavez) in e CBS/Sony 110064 COND Carlos Chavez ORCH State of Mexico Symphony 7:00 L 0 0-0 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:08 PM […]
Playlist: Jun/08/24
8:00 PM Robert Schumann — Das Paradies und die Peri Conductor: Nikolaus HarnoncourtEnsemble: Bavarian Radio SymphonyBavarian Radio Symphony ChorusDorothea Roschmann,sopranoBernarda Fink, contraltoWerner Gura, tenorChristian Gerhaher, baritoneRCA/BMG, 69727155 7:40 PM Robert Schumann — Concertpiece for 4 horns & orchestra Opus: 86Conductor: Gerard SchwarzEnsemble: Seattle SymphonySeattle Sym. Horn SectionDelos, 3084 7:10 PM Robert Schumann — Piano Quintet […]
WBJC Operafest 6/15/24 – 9/07/24
Vienna State Opera (Austria) JUNE 15 Guillaume Tell / Gioachino Rossini JUNE 22 Die Frau ohne Schatten / Richard Strauss Utrecht Early Music Festival (Netherlands) JUNE 29 The Fairy Queen / Henry Purcell Opéra de Lille (France) JULY 6 Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Royal Opera House (London) JULY 13 Das […]
A Point of Beauty on BookNotes
A Point of Beauty: TRUE STORIES OF HOLDING ON AND LETTING GO is the 5th book from The Moth, which is dedicated to the art and craft of unscripted, first-person storytelling. Their latest iteration includes a story from the violinist, Frank Almond, who is perhaps more famous than he would like for having had his […]
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute, a collaboration between The Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company, reimagines Mozart’s final opera as “a hybrid, a playful variation, more a creature of the theatre [than of] opera.” I spoke to Mary about her concept.
Toccata listings for 6/9/24
On to night’s program, A Capriccio by Bach, Evocations by Richard Strauss, and a concerto for Pedal Piano. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 403 Johann Sebastian Bach Capriccio in B-Flat BWV 992 Philips 416141 SOLO Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord 12:39 C 1 12-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:16 PM 2809 Richard Strauss Stimmungsbilder (Evocations) Op 9 […]
Playlist: Jun/07/24
11:39 PM Sir Edward Elgar — Enigma Variations Opus: 36Conductor: Sir Adrian BoultAngel/EMI, 64748 11:15 PM Karen Amrhein — The Book of Jonah , 2013 10:31 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 3 Key: D minor Opus: 30Conductor: Kirill KondrashinEnsemble: Symphony of the AirVan Cliburn, pianoRCA/BMG, 6209 10:20 PM Nikolay Tcherepnin — The Distant […]
