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Vocalise – 9/16/17
For those who observe Rosh Hashanah, happy and healthy New Year! 8:00 PM Traditional Hitrag’ut Israel folk song Telarc 80275 ORCH Quink Vocal Quintet ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:03 PM Ernest Bloch Sacred Service CBS/Sony 47533 COND Leonard Bernstein ORCH New York Philharmonic SOLO Robert Merrill, baritone SOLO and Chorus
Vocalise – 9/09/17
8:00 PM Antonin Dvorak Songs My Mother Taught Me: Gypsy Melody London 458858 COND Sir Georg Solti ORCH English Chamber Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:02 PM Antonin Dvorak Moravian Duets Op 32 Chandos 9257 COND Josef Pancik ORCH Prague Chamber Choir SOLO Marian Lapsansky, piano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:32 PM Robert Schumann Liederkreis Op […]
Vocalise – 9/02/17
Happy Labor Day Weekend! 8:00 PM Hammerstein & Kern Ol’ Man River CBS/Sony 63223 COND Emanuel Balaban ORCH Columbia Concert Orchestra SOLO Paul Robeson, bass-baritone ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:04 PM Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore: “Anvil Chorus” London 466075 COND Sir Georg Solti ORCH Chicago Symphony Orchestra SOLO and Chorus ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:08 PM George Gershwin Nice Work If […]
Vocalise – 8/26/17
8:00 PM Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium Hope in all things CBS/Sony 66261 COND Paul van Nevel ORCH Huelgas Ensemble ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:10 PM Richard Strauss Ruhe, Meine Seele! Gesang der Apollopriesterin Chandos 8631 COND Neeme Jarvi ORCH Scottish National Orchestra SOLO Felicity Lott, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:21 PM Joseph Canteloube New Songs of the Auvergne Vanguard […]
Vocalise – 8/19/17
It’s well known that Federico García Lorca was a great poet, but did you know that he also played the piano and guitar, composed music and was a Flamenco enthusiast? From a new release on the Bridge label, guitarist Sharon Isbin and mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard will perform songs by Lorca and others on Vocalise. […]
Vocalise – 8/12/17
Voices of Light was inspired by the 1920’s film The Passion of Joan of Arc starring the incomparable Maria Falconetti. Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light usually accompanies the film in the concert hall, but the music stands alone tonight on Vocalise. 8:00 PM Richard Einhorn Voices of Light COND Steven Mercurio ORCH Netherlands Radio Philharmonic […]
Vocalise – 8/05/17
On Vocalise you’ll get to hear a beautifully balanced performance between two legendary pianists and 4 singers in the Liebeslieder Walzer/Love Song Waltzes by Brahms. It comes from CD 11 contained in a brilliant boxed set on Sony Classical of performances by legendary pianist Leon Fleisher. Enjoy! 8:00 PM Georges Bizet Pearl Fishers: “Au […]
Vocalise – 7/29/17
8:00 PM Joseph Haydn Te Deum in C HOB 23 DG/Archiv 423097 COND Trevor Pinnock ORCH The English Concert SOLO and Chorus ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:09 PM Aaron Copland Old American Songs CBS/Sony 60899 SOLO William Warfield, baritone SOLO Aaron Copland,piano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:36 PM Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms RCA/BMG 68470 COND Lorin Maazel ORCH Bavarian Radio […]
Vocalise – 7/22/17
8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini Tosca: “Vissi D’Arte” RCA/BMG 60384 COND Arthur Weisberg ORCH RCA Victor Orchestra SOLO Licia Albanese, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:04 PM Richard Strauss Four Last Songs London 11851 COND Christian Thielemann ORCH Munich Philharmonic Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:26 PM Ludwig van Beethoven Choral Fantasy for Piano, Chorus & Orch.Philips 438005 […]
Vocalise – 7/15/17
8:00 PM Antonin Dvorak Rusalka: “O Lovely Moon” London 1024 COND Sir Georg Solti ORCH London Symphony Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:06 PM Claudio Monteverdi Madrigals of War: The Eighth book of madVirgin 91156 COND Anthony Rooley ORCH The Consort of Musicke
