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Music From Movies 4-14-24
7:00 PM Vangelis The Year of Living Dangerously: L’Enfant Silva 1464 ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic SOLO Mark Ayres, synthesizer 7:07 PM Nino Rota Felini Suite Da Vinci 98 ORCH Italian Saxophone Quartet 7:36 PM Stephen Warbeck Shakespeare in Love (Score) CBS/Sony 63387 COND Nick […]
Vocalise 4-13-24
8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini La Boheme: “Si, mi chiamano Mimi” Angel/EMI 67782 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH London Symphony Orchestra SOLO Montserrat Caballe, soprano 8:07 PM Gioacchino Rossini Messa di Milano Philips 446097 COND Sir Neville Marriner Sir Neville MAIR iner ORCH Academy of St Martin in Fields SOLO Nuccia Focile,soprano SOLO Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano […]
Toccata listings for 4/14/24
On tonight’s program, music for piano duo, and organ work by an anonymous composer, and the Totentanz by Liszt. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 43750 Philipp Scharwenka Songs and Dance Melodies Op 54 KochSchwan 1575 ORCH Cologne Piano Duo 19:22 C 1 7-12 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:23 PM 51021 Anonymous Batalha Famoza Titanic 157 […]
Music From Movies 4-07-24
7:00 PM Georges Delerue Day for Night: Chorale Nonesuch 79405 COND Hugh Wolff ORCH London Sinfonietta 7:04 PM Erik Satie 3 Gymnopedies London 6393 SOLO Pascal Roge, piano 7:14 PM Sir William Walton Henry V: Suite from the Olivier Film Harm Mundi 907070 COND James Judd ORCH Florida Philharmonic Orchestra 7:32 PM Patrick Doyle Henry […]
Opera Baltimore Impresario with Julia Cooke and Eric McKeever
Tune in to WBJC for the Opera Pre-Show on Saturday April 6th at 12:30pm, to hear Jonathan Palevsky interview Artistic and General Director Julia Cooke, and librettist of Opera Baltimore’s new version of Mozart’s The Impresario, Eric McKeever. Listen to excerpts here:
Vocalise 4-06-24
8:00 PM Traditional Scarborough Fair Angel/EMI 57330 SOLO Nigel Kennedy,violin SOLO And Friends (Instrumentalists) SOLO London Voices 8:06 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Telarc 80676 COND Robert Spano ORCH Atlanta Symphony Orchestra SOLO and Chorus 8:21 PM George Frederich Handel My Heart is Inditing HWV 261 London 4758363 COND David Hill ORCH Brandenburg […]
Writing about grief on BookNotes
Danielle Ariano’s memoir, The Requirement of Grief, is a poignant and muscular account of the relationship between two sisters—and the bond that remains in the wake of a suicide. I’ll be in conversation with Danielle for the launch of her memoir at The Ivy Bookshop at 4pm on Sunday, April 21st. Here […]
Toccata listings for 4/7/24
On tonight’s program, a Triosonata by Bach, music played on a “Military” piano, and a Swiss piano concerto. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 539 Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat BWV 525 CBS/Sony 178262 SOLO Cameron Carpenter, organ 12:55 C 1 14-16 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:16 PM 51078 Henri Herz Three Characteristic […]
Music From Movies 3-31-24
7:00 PM Aaron Copland The Heiress: Suite from the Film RCA/BMG 61699 COND Leonard Slatkin ORCH St Louis Symphony Orchestra 7:10 PM James Horner Apollo 13 selections MCA 11241 COND James Horner ORCH Studio Orchestra 7:41 PM Jerry Goldsmith First Knight: Original Soundtrack Epic 67270 COND Jerry Goldsmith ORCH Studio Orchestra