Dec. 17 2024

Tuesday 12/17/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Reiner Rarities This broadcast celebrates the CSO’s sixth music director Fritz Reiner! Starting out the broadcast is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture, followed by Haydn’s Symphony No. 88. Next on the program are Weinberger’s Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper and Liebermann’s Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra. Concluding the broadcast, Lisa Della […]

Dec. 16 2024

Monday 12/16/24 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM Handel:                       Messiah Ton Koopman, conductor Sunhae Im, soprano Andreas Scholl, countertenor Jörg Dürmüller, tenor Detlef Roth, baritone Westminster Symphonic Choir, chorus Joe Miller, director  

Dec. 14 2024

12-14-24 Music in Maryland takes a Messiah Break!

Tis the season and tis Messiah season!  I love Handel’s Messiah and I love playing the Beecham version of Messiah every year on WBJC!  I see no reason why this tradition shouldn’t continue.  So sit back and enjoy the fabulous Beecham Messiah recorded in 1959. PLAY DATE: Sat, 12/14/2024 6:00 PM            114 George Frederich Handel       […]

Dec. 14 2024

12-24-24 Face The Music Listings!

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This week composer/pianist John Bowen visits us from Chicago and we pay tribute to  tuba player the late Ed Goldstein who adds his usual magic as we re-run an oldie but a goodie for the holidays! PLAY DATE: Sat, 12/14/2024 5:00 PM 9398 Johann Sebastian Bach Nun Freut Euch, Liebern Christen, G’MeinDG/Archiv 4835022 SOLO Vikingur […]

Dec. 13 2024

Toccata listings for 12/15/25

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On tonight’s program, some holiday harpsichord music, and an Italian piano concerto.  thanks for listening, and enjoy!   6:01 PM 50135 Edwin McLean, arranger A Baroque Christmas Alienor 1207 SOLO Elaine Funaro, harpsichord 20:26 C 1 4-14 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:24 PM 21081 Giuseppe Martucci Piano Concerto No. 1 in d Naxos 570931 COND Francesco La Vecchia […]

Dec. 12 2024

Thursday 12/12/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM MARTINU: Thunderbolt P-47 PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition   Petr Popelka, conductor; Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Dec. 11 2024

Holiday chills & thrills at Everyman

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As a savory option to contrast the barrage of typical holiday sweets, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is presenting another in their ongoing tradition of murder mysteries to liven up our winter playgoing. This time, it’s a classic locked-room whodunit by the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None–as originally adapted for the […]

Dec. 11 2024

Wednesday 12/11/24 European Broadcasting Union!

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11:00 PM Tchaikovsky in Berlin: Stravinsky, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky Maria Dueñas shines in Béla Bartók’s darkly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2 with conductor Elim Chan. The Berlin Radio Symphony rounds out the program with works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.   ORCHESTRA              Berlin Radio Symphony CONDUCTOR             Elim Chan SOLOIST                     Maria Dueñas, violin […]

Dec. 10 2024

Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt at Shakespeare Theatre

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  Tom Stoppard’s deeply personal play Leopoldstadt is on at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. until December 29th. I spoke with the director Carey Perloff from her home in San Francisco.        

Dec. 10 2024

Tuesday 12/10/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Harding Conducts The Planets Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus.   Robert Schumann         Overture to Manfred, […]

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