Archive for February, 2025
Vocalise 2-08-25
Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly: “Un Bel Di” RCA/BMG 68883 COND Oliviero de Fabritis Oh LEE vee ehr oh DAY Fah BREE tee ORCH Rome Opera Orchestra SOLO Leontyne Price, soprano LAY ahn teen Price 4:43 C 1 8-8 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:06 PM 5865 Maurice Ravel Sheherazade Philips 410043 COND Edo de Waart AY doh Duh VART […]
Playlist: Feb/09/25
8:24 PM Luigi Boccherini — Guitar Quintet No. 9 Key: C major Ensemble: Europa GalanteGiangiacomo Pinardi, guitarVirgin, 45607 7:42 PM Richard Rodney Bennett — Murder on The Orient Express Conductor: Marcus DodsEnsemble: Royal Opera House,Covnt GardenRichard Rodney Bennett, pianoWarnerClas, 2005 7:31 PM Georges Delerue — Le Mepris Conductor: George Delerue , 2425 7:21 PM Mark […]
Playlist: Feb/08/25
8:24 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Cantata No. 147: Conductor: Sir David WillcocksEnsemble: Academy of St Martin in FieldsKing’s College Choir CambridgeElly Ameling, sopranoDame Janet Baker,mezzo-sopranoIan Partridge, tenorJohn Shirley-Quirk,bassAngel/EMI, 86052 8:06 PM Maurice Ravel — Sheherazade Conductor: Edo de WaartEnsemble: San Francisco SymphonyElly Ameling, sopranoPhilips, 410043 8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini — Madama Butterfly: “Un Bel […]
2-8-25 Face The Music Listings
This week our panel was Tuba Player Ed Goldstein, FTM Panelist Emeritus Dave Donovan and WBJC’s Kati Harrison. We had amazing recordings the whole show. Frankly we all had a great time. PLAY DATE: Sat, 02/8/2025 5:00 PM 1813 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in g K 478 DG/Archiv 4836574 ORCH Emerson String […]
Wrangling the Doubt Monster on BookNotes
Amy L. Bernstein—novelist, journalist, speechwriter, playwright, poet, and writing coach—has written a book about that insidious feeling that plagues all creatives: Doubt. I talked to her about wrangling the monster.
Toccata listings for 2/9/25
On tonight’s program, a major organ work by Bach, and music by 2 American composers: an etude by Philip Glass and a piano concerto by Nicolas Flagello. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 5803 Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564 MSR 1271 SOLO Florence Mustric, organ 15:13 C […]
Playlist: Feb/07/25
11:33 PM Jacques Offenbach — Gaite Parisienne Conductor: Erich KunzelTelarc, 80294 11:07 PM Aaron Copland — Piano Sonata (1941) Joan Singer Spicknall, pianoEroica, 3144 10:55 PM Siegfried Wagner — Rainulf und Adelasia Conductor: Werner Andreas AlbertEnsemble: Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil.and soloistsCPO, 777017 10:20 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 38 Key: DConductor: Sir Neville MarrinerPhilips, […]
February is New Member Month!
February is New Member Month! WBJC is appealing to those who have never joined WBJC’s membership ranks to do so in the month of February! We have a goal of 200 NEW members before the end of the month, and we are feeling pretty confident that there are 200 listeners who will step up. We […]
Thursday 02/06/25 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM DAUGHERTY: Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 STRAVINSKY: Suite from The Firebird Manfred Honeck, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano
Playlist: Feb/06/25
10:17 PM Florence Price — Symphony No. 1 Key: E minor Conductor: Yannick Nezet-SeguinDG/Archiv, 34879 9:57 PM Franz Liszt — Reminiscences de Don Juan Jan Panenka, pianoSupraphon, 73080 9:50 PM Leonard Bernstein — Candide Overture Conductor: David ZinmanLondon, 452916 9:25 PM Franz Danzi — Wind Quintet Key: F major Opus: 68Naxos, 8554694 8:40 PM Antonin […]
