Archive for the ‘Music In Maryland’ Category
11-04-17 Music In Maryland ‘Andrew Constantine Chadwick and Elgar’
Back in the day Andrew Constantine was Associate Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and is now Music Director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. He recently recorded Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches and Elgar’s Enigma Variations with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We also dug up a recording he did […]
10-21-17 Music In Maryland: Candlelight Concerts, Lark Quartet
This week we feature a concert from the Candlelight Concert Society in Columbia recorded on April 29, 2017 with the Lark Quartet. The program… Wolf: Serenade Harbison: String Quartet No. 6 (World Premiere) Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 Movements I & IV* For the Mendelssohn the […]
10-20-17 Baltimore Classical Guitar Society Celebrates 30 years!
This year the BCGS celebrates their 30th anniversary and begins their season with Guitarist Manuel Barrueco on Saturday 10/28. Here is a link to their site for more information www.bcgs.org I had the pleasure of sitting down with BCGS President Asgerdur Sigurdardottir last week to talk abut what the society was up to for their 30th […]
10-7-17 Music In Maryland Chamber Music By Candlelight!
I recently bumped into violinist Ivan Stefanovic at the BCO concert and he said he was trying to get me new recordings of his colleagues from Chamber Music By Candlelight at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore…so while we patiently like Job here are a few vintage recordings featuring BSO musicians. Pender: Variations for Oboe and […]
9-30-17 Music In Maryland Shameless BSO Plug!
Next week the Baltimore Symphony has a super nice program and I’ve been working my you know what off doing the podcasts. The concert has two Scottish pieces and then excerpts from Parsifal…a great way to enjoy Wagner’s amazing music from his final opera without sitting through endless hours of staging. You can find out […]
9-23-17 Music In Maryland…Some performances and players to look forward to!
John Nauman is playing Gershwin with Concert Artists on 10/7 and Jonathan Leshnoff’s cello concerto is being performed by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra on 10/1. This was a good excuse to play John Nauman’s recording of the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata and the Leshnoff Second Symphony! A couple of BSO recordings rounded everything off! PLAY DATE: […]
9-16-17 Music In Maryland 2 Serious American Symphonies and Strings!
This week We hear Bach courtesy of BSO Principal Cellist Darius Skoraczewski and Dvorak from BSO Concert Master Jonathan Carney! Add to that Marin Alsop is conducting Bernstein Kaddish Symphony in honor of Rosh Hashanah and the Barber Symphony # 2 we haven’t played in forever! PLAY DATE: Sat, 09/16/2017 6:00 PM 2964 Johann […]
9-9-17 Music In Maryland, Dvorak and Marin Alsop!
This week we feature a Dvorak recording with the BSO a day late for his birthday and a couple of recordings featuring BSO Music Director Marin Alsop with some of her other orchestras. BSO season starts next week and the Gala is tonight! Go and support the fine musicians of our fabulous orchestra! (That’s an […]
8-26-17 Music In Maryland. Getting ready for the Fall BSO season!
This week we feature a recording with Winton Marsalis who is performing at the BSO Gala on 9/9. We also have a live recording of Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony which will be performed on the orchestra’s first subscription concert. BSO principal cellist Darius Skoracewski just released a set of Bach cello suites and we played the […]
8-12-17 Music In Maryland Handel Choir!
This week we are airing excerpts from some really nice concerts featuring the Handel Choir of Baltimore. The concerts were entitled Farm To Table and Soul Seeds. Both took place at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore this past Spring. Here is a file with all the text and infor you could ever hope to […]