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6-19-21 Face The Music Listings!
WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had our first in-studio show in over a year! It was so great to listen to music together and re-connect. Our panel was WBJC’s Kati Harrison, Towson State’s Eva Mengelkoch…Head of the piano department, and Phil Greenfield from the American Record Guide. It was so much fun to be together again. […]
Juneteenth 2021
Juneteenth—June 19th—is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. Sistah Joy Alford, Poet Laureate of Prince George’s Country, shares some thoughts.
Toccata listings for 6/20/21
On tonight’s program, a monumental piano sonata by Paul Dukas, and a concerto for 2 harpsichords by Pergolesi. Happy Father’s day, and thanks for listening! Enjoy! 6:00 PM 7216 Paul Dukas Piano Sonata in e Naxos 8557053 SOLO Chantal Stigliani, piano 46:43 C 1 1-4 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:46 PM 1966 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Concerto for […]
Music From Movies 06-13-21
7:00 PM Stanley Myers Cavatina from “The Deer Hunter” CBS/Sony 89141 COND John Williams ORCH Studio Orchestra SOLO John Williams, guitar 7:05 PM Nino Rota The Godfather: Music from the Film CBS/Sony 63359 COND Riccardo Muti ORCH La Scala Philharmonic Orchestr 7:26 PM John Barry Walkabout: Main Theme Silva 1055 COND Nic Raine ORCH City […]
Vocalise 06/12/21
8:00 PM Giuseppe Verdi: Aida: “O patria mia” RCA/BMG 6198 COND Erich Leinsdorf ORCH London Symphony Orchestra SOLO Leontyne Price, soprano 8:06 PM Hector Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette Op 17 (Selections) SanFranSym 821936 COND Michael Tilson Thomas ORCH Sofia Symphony Orchestra SOLO Nicholas Phan, tenor SOLO Luca Pisaroni, baritone
6-12-21 Music In Maryland…BSO and Fleisher play Mahler and Brahms!
This week we have Leon Fleisher and the Julliard String Quartet playing the Brahms Piano Quartet and David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony playing Mahler Symphony # 6!
Toccata listings for 6/13/21
On tonight’s program, music for 2 pianos from Russia, an organ sonata by Mendelssohn, and a concerto by Baltimore native Philip Glass. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 30709 Anton Arensky Suite No.2 for Two Pianos Op 23 Hyperion 66755 SOLO Stephen Coombs, piano SOLO Ian Munro.piano 14:48 C 1 4-8 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:18 […]
Music From Movies 06-06-21
7:00 PM Vangelis Conquest of Paradise: Main Theme Silva 5006 COND Nic Raine ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:05 PM Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso: Music from the Film RCA/BMG 60706 COND Henry Mancini ORCH Mancini Pops Orchestra 7:17 PM Max Steiner All This, & Heaven Too Naxos 570184 COND William T. Stromberg ORCH […]
Vocalise 06/05/21
8:00 PM Many thanks for your support of vocal music during WBJC’s Spring Pledge Drive! Antonio Vivaldi Tito Manlio: ‘Combatta un gentil cor’ London 4834475 COND Jean-Christophe Spinosi ORCH Ensemble Matheus SOLO Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano 8:06 PM Mikhail Glinka Prayer Melodiya 1000167 COND Evgeny Svetlanov ORCH Russian State Symphony Orchestra SOLO USSR State Chorus SOLO […]
6-5-21 Music in Maryland Stephen Kates, BSO and Tempest Trio!
This week we feature a recording of the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata with Stephen Kates, The BSO playing Brahms 3 with David Zinman and The Tempest Trio playing Dvorak’s Piano Trio # 3.
