Archive for December, 2024
Wednesday 12/11/24 European Broadcasting Union!
11:00 PM Tchaikovsky in Berlin: Stravinsky, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky Maria Dueñas shines in Béla Bartók’s darkly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2 with conductor Elim Chan. The Berlin Radio Symphony rounds out the program with works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. ORCHESTRA Berlin Radio Symphony CONDUCTOR Elim Chan SOLOIST Maria Dueñas, violin […]
Playlist: Dec/11/24
9:28 PM Elliott Carter — Symphony No. 1 (1942) Conductor: Kenneth SchermerhornNaxos, 559151 9:12 PM Traditional — Suite of Christmas Hymns For Orchestra Conductor: Morton GouldCBS/Sony, 60800 8:59 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Sonata No. 3 Key: B flat major Glenn Gould, pianoCBS/Sony, 45612 8:38 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 […]
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt at Shakespeare Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s deeply personal play Leopoldstadt is on at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. until December 29th. I spoke with the director Carey Perloff from her home in San Francisco.
Tuesday 12/10/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Harding Conducts The Planets Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Robert Schumann Overture to Manfred, […]
Playlist: Dec/10/24
10:35 PM Morton Gould — Symphony No.4, “West Point” Conductor: H. Dwight SatterwhiteSummit, 247 10:00 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 Key: C minor Opus: 111Christian Leotta, pianoAtma, 2486 9:37 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Violin Concerto No. 2 Key: E major Conductor: Daniel BarenboimEnsemble: English Chamber OrchestraItzhak Perlman, violinAngel/EMI, 83178 9:29 […]
Monday 12/09/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake Tchaikovksy: Selections from Swan Lake Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Playlist: Dec/09/24
10:13 PM Joseph Joachim — Violin Concerto No. 2 Key: D minor Opus: 11Conductor: Leon BotsteinEnsemble: London Philharmonic OrchestraElmar Oliveira, violinIMP/MASTER, 27 9:54 PM John Ireland — A Downland Suite Conductor: David HoneyballHelios, 88013 9:33 PM Louis Spohr — Sonata for Harp & Cello Key: D major Opus: 113Helga Storck,harpKlaus Storck, celloCalig, 50887 9:22 PM […]
Playlist: Dec/08/24
6:34 PM David Cope — Concerto (composed by computer in Conductor: Nicole PaiementEnsemble: Santa Cruz Baroq Festival OrchLinda Burman-Hall, keyboardCentaur, 2619 6:22 PM Maurice Durufle — Prel & Fugue on Name of Alain Opus: 7Todd Wilson, organDelos, 3047 6:01 PM Leo Sowerby — Suite for Piano Four Hands Gail Quillman, pianoJulia Tsien, PianoCedille, 7006 5:31 […]
Playlist: Dec/07/24
7:40 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Violin Sonata No. 6 Key: G major Ensemble: Beijing Guitar DuoManuel Barrueco, guitarTonar, 40515 7:08 PM Antonio Vivaldi — Gloria Key: DConductor: Trevor PinnockEnsemble: The English ConcertEnglish Concert ChoirDG/Archiv, 437834 6:17 PM George Frederich Handel — Messiah: Part 1 Conductor: Edward PolochickEnsemble: Baltimore Symphony OrchestraConcert Artists of Baltimore SJennifer […]
Emotion as Industry on BookNotes
Tracy Dimond is following up the publication of four chapbooks of poetry with her first full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry. She’s my guest on BookNotes this month.
