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Toccata listings for 6/11/23
On tonight’s program, harpsichord music from the Netherlands, a Liszt arrangement of his symphonic music for two pianos, and an organ concerto by C.P.E. Bach. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 44047 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Echo Fantasia in C Centaur 2747 SOLO Gavin Black,harpsichord 10:08 C 1 11-11 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:12 PM […]
6-17-23 Music in Maryland
I’m in Leipzig with the WBJC tour…here is some music by some of the many composers who have a presence in this amazingly musical part of Germany. PLAY DATE: Sat, 06/17/2023 6:00 PM 681 Leonard Bernstein Candide Overture London 452916 COND David Zinman David ZIHN mihn ORCH Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 4:19 C 1 1-1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ […]
6-10-23 Music in Maryland
This week Isata Kanneh Mason is intown with the Baltimore Symphony. Here are some of the pieces she is playing as well as what the BSO is doing. PLAY DATE: Sat, 06/17/2023 6:00 PM 5399 Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in a Op 7 London 4850020 COND Holly Mathieson ORCH Royal Liverpool Philharmonic O SOLO Isata […]
Music From Movies 6-04-23
7:00 PM Astor Piazzolla- Punta Del Este Suite (Intro) Trova 1 ORCH Studio Orchestra SOLO Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon 7:02 PM Gottfried Huppertz- Metropolis Capriccio 452210466 COND Frank Strobel ORCH Bavarian Radio Symphony 7:12 PM Johann Sebastian Bach- Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 DG/Archiv 19032 COND Yannick Nezet-Seguin ORCH The Philadelphia Orchestra […]
Vocalise 6-03-23
8:00 PM George Frederich Handel Pleasure’s Aria (As a cloud…) London 5151 COND Marc Minkowski ORCH Musicians of the Louvre SOLO Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano 8:05 PM Sir Edward Elgar Dream of Gerontius Part II Angel/EMI 66540 COND Sir Adrian Boult ORCH New Philharmonia Orchestra SOLO John Alldis Choir SOLO Nicolai Gedda, tenor SOLO Helen Watts,alto […]
6-3-23 Music in Maryland 3 Great Pieces!
This week it’s simple. 1)We continue to celebrate Elgar’s birthday which was 6/2 with the first great English Symphony. 2)Manuel Barrueco plays the second violin partita by Bach which ends with the Chaconne. 3)Leon Fleisher plays the Beethoven first piano concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell! PLAY DATE: Sat, 06/03/2023 6:00 PM […]
A cellist traces her Holocaust history on BookNotes
Janet Horvath is the former associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra, and she is the daughter of two professional musicians who were Holocaust survivors. She recounts their story, and her link to it, in The Cello Still Sings — A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the […]
Toccata listings for 6/4/23
On tonight’s program, we start with a little accordion music, then a sonata for 2 pianos, and a piano concerto by one of the great rivals of Franz Liszt. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 10461 Antonio Soler Sonata No. 45 in G Denon 78841 SOLO Stefan Hussong,accordion 4:01 C 1 […]
Music From Movies 5-28-23
7:00 PM John Williams- Saving Private Ryan: Hymn Silva 1098 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic SOLO The Crouch End Festival Chorus 7:08 PM Samuel Barber- Adagio for Strings Op 11 Telarc 80673 COND Robert Spano ORCH Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 7:18 PM John Williams- Born on the Fourth of July: Suite CBS/Sony […]
Vocalise 5-27-23
8:00 PM Giuseppe Verdi- Nabucco: “Va, pensiero Telarc 80397 COND Robert Shaw ORCH Atlanta Symphony Orchestra SOLO and Chorus 8:05 PM Robert Schumann- Dichterliebe Op 48 CBS/Sony 46743 SOLO Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone SOLO Vladimir Horowitz, piano 8:34 PM Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco- Romancero Gitano RCM 19802 COND Peter Rutenberg ORCH Los Angeles Chamber Singers SOLO Gregory Newton
