Archive for the ‘Music In Maryland’ Category

Jun. 01 2019

6-1-19 Music In Maryland Robert Di Lutis & BCO

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This week we feature a couple of excerpts from Robert DiLutis’ CD Clarinet Classics at Riversdale. We also feature the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra with their former Concert Master Madeline Adkins playing the Beethoven Concerto. Play Report

May. 25 2019

5-25-19 Music In Maryland Memorial Day.

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 5-25-19 Music In Maryland Memorial Day.

Memorial Day weekend is always a nice occasion to play some great American music. Samuel Barber was indeed a veteran and Aaron Copland wrote some amazing music on behalf of the war effort during World War 2. Have a happy and safe Memorial Day!

May. 03 2019

5-4-19 Music In Maryland Piano Marathon!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 5-4-19 Music In Maryland Piano Marathon!

This week we continue our performances from last year’s piano marathon concert at First and Franklin Presbyterian. The third annual piano marathon concert is Sunday 5/5 and will be hosted by WBJC’s Mark Malinowski. https://www.baltimoreculture.org/calendar/event/20399/third-annual-baltimore-piano-marathon-spire-series#.XMzNZ7dKjcs Rachmaninoff: Etudes Tableaux op. 39 5, 8, 9. Brahms: Paganini Variations Book 1 Seth Schultheis, piano. Debussy: Petite Suite Ravel: […]

Apr. 26 2019

4-27-19 Music In Maryland Poulenc Trio and Piano Marathon!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | 1 Comment

This week Music in Maryland previews two groups/events who are performing next week. The Poulenc Trio is performing with WBJC’s Kati Harrison at An Die Musik in Baltimore Saturday 5/4 and at The National Gallery in DC on 5/5. Also on 5/5 is the Third Annual Baltimore Piano Marathon at First and Franklin Presbyterian Church. […]

Apr. 05 2019

4-6-19 Music In Maryland Chamber Music by Candlelight

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 4-6-19 Music In Maryland Chamber Music by Candlelight

This week we are finally airing some of the very fine performances by members of the Baltimore Symphony recorded at 2nd Presbyterian Church as part of the Chamber Music by Candlelight series. Thanks so much to Ivan Stefanovic for making these available to us. Schumann: Fairy Tales op. 132. Jacob Shack, viola; Yao Guang Zhai, […]

Mar. 23 2019

3-23-19 Music In Maryland Fleisher and Ganz…Studio Neighbors!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-23-19 Music In Maryland Fleisher and Ganz…Studio Neighbors!

On the third floor of the Peabody Conservatory building you will find studios of Leon Fleisher and Brian Ganz. I love Fleisher’s Brahms first concerto and Ganz’s Chopin. Why not enjoy both. I just finished a Brahms first piano concerto podcast and am very much enthralled with the work. PLAY DATE: Sat, 03/23/2019 6:00 PM […]

Mar. 15 2019

3-16-19 Music in Maryland Calefax Reed Quintet.

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-16-19 Music in Maryland Calefax Reed Quintet.

This week we are featuring the Calefax Reed Quintet in a concert recorded as part of the Candlelight Concert Society in Columbia. There were some great transcription on the program and some interesting original material written for the group. Now in their third decade the Calefax continues to amaze. Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain. Jeths: […]

Mar. 01 2019

3-2-19 Music in Maryland Handel Choir and Third Practice.

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-2-19 Music in Maryland Handel Choir and Third Practice.

This week MiM Featured fine live performances by the Handel Choir of Baltimore and Third Practice. William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices Performed on November 19, 2016 at the Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore, MD Robin Beckman & Katelyn Aungst, soprano Shauna Kreidler Michels & Natalia Kojanova, mezzo-soprano Joshua Bornfield & Patrick Kilbride, tenor Gilbert […]

Feb. 22 2019

2-23-19 Music in Maryland…Some music and musicians that are visiting us soon

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 2-23-19 Music in Maryland…Some music and musicians that are visiting us soon

This week the BSO is playing the Elgar Cello Concerto .  I thought it would be nice to hear the classic 1965 recording with Jacqueline Dupre and Sir John Barbirolli.   Also on this weekend’s program is the Debussy Rondes de Printemps which is the third Image from the Image for Orchestra by Debussy.  I also […]

Feb. 16 2019

2-16-19 Music in Maryland. Parker Quartet.

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 2-16-19 Music in Maryland. Parker Quartet.

This week we are airing a Candlelight Concert from October of 2017 that commemorated the centennial of the Soviet Revolution.  The Parker Quartet performed Stravinsky’s Concertino and 3 Pieces for String Quartet, Prokofiev’s 2nd Quartet and Shostakovich’s Third.  To fill I used Marin Alsop’s recording of Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony (a masterpiece we rarely hear) which […]

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