Archive for the ‘Music In Maryland’ Category
11-10-18 Music In Maryland Robert DiLutis and Other Great Things!
This week we start with clarinetist Robert DiLutis and a nice performance of the much too under-heard Francaix Clarinet Concerto. It was recorded at College Park with the U of M Orchestra and conductor Jose Luis Novo. After that I wanted some stuff appropriate to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. […]
11-3-18 Music In Maryland Mendelssohn and Schumann.
People always group these two composers together even though they are about as similar as chalk and cheese…therefore we will continue this process! Also the Bach Cello suite recording we played on guitar is amazing. Play Report PLAY DATE: Sat, 11/03/2018 6:00 PM 6036 Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 7 in d Nimbus 5142 COND […]
10-27-18 Music In Maryland Some BSO Pieces for Halloween!
With the approach of 10/31 I thought it might be nice to play a couple of BSO recordings which feature darker themes! The Michael Torke percussion concerto with Marin Alsop has never been played here so I thought it would be nice to let everyone have a listen. PLAY DATE: Sat, 10/27/2018 6:00 PM 79 […]
10-20-18 Music In Maryland Columbia Concerts Benjamin Grosvenor
Our concert tonight features the excellent pianist Benjamin Grosvenor who performed with the Columbia Candlelight Concert Society Saturday May 5, 2018. Brahms: Four Pieces op. 119 Brett Dean: Hommage a Brahms (Played as interludes between the Brahms pieces.) Berg: Piano Sonata op. 1 Debussy/Borwick & G. Copeland arr: Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun. […]
10-13-18 Music In Maryland Qing and Messiah!
This week we have live performances of BSO violinist Qing Li and also parts 2 & 3 of the BSO messiah recording. Makes for great listening. Play Report PLAY DATE: Sat, 10/13/2018 6:00 PM 1778 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A K 219 “TurQing Li 1 COND Carolyn Kuan ORCH Baltimore Symphony […]
10-6-18 Music In Maryland Handel Choir Durufle Requiem & BSO Messiah
This week Mes Petits Amis we are featuring a couple of nice performances featuring The Handel Choir conducted by Brian Bartoldus. They will be performing the Gloria from the Frank Martin Mass For Double Choir and the Durufle Requiem. We also feature excerpts from the new BSO Messiah that came out last month. PLAY DATE: […]
9-22-18 Music In Maryland Chamber Music by Candlelight and Other Fine Things
This week we have an interesting potpourri of great things. We have two recordings and two live performances. Netanel Draiblate is performing with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra as one of four candidates to become concert master! The concert is on 9/30 at Goucher College. Should be great. The two middle pieces are from Chamber Music […]
9-8-18 Dvorak and Ohlsson!
It’s Dvorak’s birthday so why not play two BSO recordings of Dvorak Symphonies. Also Garrick Ohlsson is playing with the symphony in two weeks. He’s playing the Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody which we played last week so I picked an epic Prokofiev Sonata. PLAY DATE: Sat, 09/08/2018 6:00 PM 3032 Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 6 […]
9-1-18 Music In Maryland BSO 2018 Opening Warm Up.
It’s Labor Day weekend and that means everything is going to be starting up really soon. The first BSO Subscription concert is on 9/21 and features the Rachmaninoff Paganini Variations and Beethoven’s Eroica. The BSO hasn’t recorded much Beethoven but David Zinman did record a cycle with the Tonhalle in Zurich! I used Leon Fleisher’s […]
8-25-18 Music In Maryland Bernstein @ 100 and BSO Tour!
This week Music in Maryland celebrates two things. First the BSO is on tour in the UK and Ireland. Second it’s Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday! Granted Lenny hasn’t been around since 1990 but his music and performances continue to shape just about everything around us. PLAY DATE: Sat, 08/25/2018 6:00 PM 695 Leonard Bernstein Three […]
