Archive for the ‘Music In Maryland’ Category
8-22-15 Music In Maryland Hilary II
This week I am live in the studio and we are doing fun things. We are celebrating Hilary Hahn’s excellent recordings for a couple of reasons. First it’s Leonard Bernstein’s birthday on 8/25 so we are playing her recording of the Serenade. I remember when she performed it in Baltimore because I wrote the review […]
8-8-15 Music In Maryland Amit Peled & pablo Casals!
This week Music in Maryland presents a concert featuring cellist Amit Peled as he recreates the concert Pablo Casals gave at Peabody on February 12, 1915. Even more amazing is that the Peled recital took place a century later on February 12, 2015! Even more amazing is that Amit Peled plays on Pablo Casals’ cello! […]
8-8-15 Music in Maryland Baltimore Choral Arts Society: Quest For Peace!
This week we have the privilege of broadcasting the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and their Quest For Peace Concert recorded on Sunday April 26, 2015 at Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium. Tom Hall leads the full Chorus and string orchestra in poignant and powerful settings of “Dona Nobis Pacem” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peteris Vasks […]
8-1-15 Music in Maryland: Baltimore Chamber Orchestra!
This week Music In Maryland has a nice mixture of live and recorded performances by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra conducted by Markand Thackar. We have live performances of Mozart’s 30th Symphony and Beethoven’s Second from this past season’s performances at Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium. We also have a nice recording from 2009 of violist Victoria […]
7-25-15 Music in Maryland Leon Fleisher!
Earlier this week Leon Fleisher celebrated his 87th birthday on July 23. I thought that this would be a good occasion to pay tribute to one of the most important musicians both at Peabody and in the Mid Atlantic Region. I tried to pick repertoire from his earliest George Szell collaborations to his most recent […]
7-18-15 Music In Maryland: Candlelight Concerts Aizuri Quartet With Peter Wiley
This week Music in Maryland presents a Candlelight Concert Society performance of Curtis On Tour with the Aizuri Quartet and Cellist Peter Wiley. The concert was recorded at Smith Theatre Howard Community College of January 24, 2015. See below for program details. Program: Haydn: Quartet in B-flat Major, Hob. III:67 Debussy: String Quartet in […]
7-11-15 Music in Maryland Hilary Hahn (Part the first)
This week Music in Maryland pays tribute to Hilary Hahn! There is so much great material that we are barely scratching the surface…much more to come. Here are the listings. Play Report PLAY DATE: Sat, 07/11/2015 6:00 PM 21807 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Sonata No. 15 in A KV 526 DG/Archiv 4771 SOLO Hilary Hahn, […]
7-4-15 Music In Maryland American Music!
This week Music in Maryland features America’s most venerable ensemble The President’s Own…The United States Marine Band in music from both the USA and abroad. To keep things interesting the Baltimore Symphony is also featured in the Gershwin Piano Concerto. Here are the listings…hope you enjoyed the show. PLAY DATE: Sat, 07/04/2015 6:00 PM 30 […]
6-27-15 Music in Maryland…Manuel Barrueco!
This week we are doing a bit of cheating on Music in Maryland. The bad news is that we are not featuring live recordings…the good news is that we are featuring a fabulous retrospective on Baltimore guitarist Manuel Barrueco. Last year Manuel Barrueco came out with a new CD entitled China West where he performs […]
6-13-15 Music In Maryland Peabody Recordings!
This week we present some Peabody faculty members and some of their recordings. Cellist Amit Peled has just released a really nice CD on Centaur and we will hear his Rachmaninoff Sonata. It’s always a pleasure to hear Brian Ganz play anything…but especially Chopin. We have the luxury of the complete op. 28. finally Guitarist […]