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Classical Music Discoveries
Classical Music Discoveries
The World's Most Popular Classical Music Show
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Classical Music Discoveries · Apr 15, 2022
Episode 86: 18186 Ready or Not
Musician-led ensemble Palaver Strings releases its new album of music by diverse female composers, Ready or Not. Works on the album include Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra; Non può il mio cuore by …
55:16Classical Music Discoveries · Apr 8, 2022
Episode 231: 18231 Gems from Armenia
Cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, each a renowned soloist and chamber musician in her own right, together celebrate the sounds of their ancestral homeland on Gems from Armenia. The album marks the …
1:20:40Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 27, 2022
Episode 222: 18222 Rossini: William Tell
William Tell is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, …
4:08:14Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 25, 2022
Episode 95: 18195 Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
The project began as a nine-month exploration of the Sibelius symphonies to mark Mäkelä’s inaugural season with the Oslo Philharmonic as Chief Conductor but, with Covid cancellations, turned into a completely immersive recording project. …
4:45:19Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 22, 2022
Episode 229: 18229 Voyager
Deutsche Grammophon released VOYAGER: ESSENTIAL MAX RICHTER, the first-ever collection of the acclaimed British composer’s work. The 33-track collection will be available as a double CD and e-album and contains work from across his …
2:44:54Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 20, 2022
Episode 230: 18230 Rossini - Aureliano in Palmira
Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." The libretto …
2:40:33Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 19, 2022
Episode 97: 18197 Orion Weiss - Arc 1
. Arc I is the inaugural album of an ambitious three-part series and features important works for solo piano from the frantic years of 1911-1913 – the precipice before World War I. The three …
1:20:37Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 18, 2022
Episode 85: 18185 Ruth Slenczynska
Born in 1925 in Sacramento, California, to Polish immigrants, Slenczynska gave her concert debut at the age of four (just as the world entered the Great Depression), performed on television aged five, and at …
1:06:43Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 15, 2022
Episode 228: 18228 Pop Channel
Ziporyn who released his landmark Cantaloupe Music recording; ‘This Is Not a Clarinet’ in 2001, does the impossible on Pop Channel, taking us through some of the best iconic pop songs during the last …
57:13Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 13, 2022
Episode 226: 18226 Rossini - The Italian Girl in Algiers
Rossini wrote L'italiana in Algeri when he was 21. Rossini stated that he composed the opera in 18 days, though other sources claim that it took him 27 days. Rossini entrusted the composition of …
2:35:57Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 12, 2022
Episode 227: 18227 Elle
Violinist Angèle Dubeau's newest release ELLE, is an album that magnificently marks the 25 years of existence of her orchestra La Pietà. This 46th album resonates with the feminine sensitivity and virtuosity specific to …
57:50Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 11, 2022
Episode 224: 18224 Night Music
Night: it can be dreamy or comforting, but sometimes it’s frightening, full of dark secrets. So it’s no great surprise that the long hours of darkness, often spent awake, have inspired so many composers …
1:05:45Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 8, 2022
Episode 221: 18221 Bruckner: Symphonies 2 and 8
Wagner: Meistersinger PreludeBruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (1877 version)Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (1890 version) Andris Nelsons, conductorGewandhausorchester Purchase the music (without talk) at:Bruckner: Symphonies 2 …
2:39:36Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 6, 2022
Episode 225: 18225 Rossini - The Curious Misunderstanding
L'equivoco stravagante (The Curious Misunderstanding) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri. It was Rossini's first attempt at writing a full two-act opera.L'equivoco …
2:11:23Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 5, 2022
Episode 223: 18223 Rossini - featured opera composer for March 2022
This broadcast introduces our international audience to Rossini, our featured opera composer for March 2022. You will hear overtures from the 4 operas we feature this month: L'equivoco stravagante (The Curious Misunderstanding) L'italiana in …
44:18Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 4, 2022
Episode 84: 18184 Kate Soper - The Understanding of All Things
Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper releases The Understanding of All Things, a portrait album featuring frequent Wet Ink Ensemble collaborator Sam Pluta, on New Focus Recordings. The Understanding of All Things …
58:18Classical Music Discoveries · Mar 1, 2022
Episode 220: 18220 Nightscapes
Night falls in diverse ways in Magdalena Hoffmann's debut album. Nightscapes sees the German harpist dive deep into the intimate, mysterious, magical world of night music, as well as exploring the theme of dance. …
1:21:45Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 28, 2022
Episode 213: 18213 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo
Hailed as “one of a kind, a banjoist who specializes in classical music and regularly knocks socks off left and right doing so,” John Bullard has released a new recording, 24 Preludes for Solo …
32:43Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 27, 2022
Episode 96: 18196 Meyerbeer - The African Woman or Vasco de Gama
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, …
4:27:00Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 26, 2022
Episode 218: 18219 City Lights
Lisa Batiashvili’s new album, released on May 29, 2020, takes the listener across the world with eleven carefully chosen pieces that represent the most important cities in her life, as well as a suite …
1:11:02Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 25, 2022
Episode 202: 18202 Eden
From prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, to the industry-defining In War and Peace, opera superstar Joyce DiDonato has long been an artist who has dedicated herself …
1:15:18Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 24, 2022
Episode 218: 18218 Bach - The Art of Life
Pianist Daniil Trifonov is known for performances of 19th and 20th-century virtuoso repertory and hardly at all for Bach. Thus one might expect from his album Bach: The Art of Life a certain old-school …
2:24:27Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 23, 2022
Episode 214: 18214 Vestige
Vestige, an album featuring premiere recordings of new pieces by five composers, performed by the contemporary chamber ensemble Wild Rumpus (now Ninth Planet). Five years in the making, Vestige is an ambitious melding of …
1:10:19Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 22, 2022
Episode 205: 18205 Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still stands as one of the earliest and greatest examples of film exploring the mystery and fear of alien contact, using it as an allegory for our mistrust of …
51:32Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 21, 2022
Episode 212: 18212 Before and After
Before and After, the much-anticipated new album from NOW Ensemble, a group of composers and performers creating "effervescent, genre-busting" chamber music for the 21st century. Before and After-NOW's seventh album with New Amsterdam is …
49:52Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 20, 2022
Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete
After the brilliant success of their grand opera Les Huguenots (1836), Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe decided to collaborate again on a piece based on a historical religious conflict. Meyerbeer's great personal wealth and …
3:38:42Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 19, 2022
Episode 217: 18217 Bruckner: Symphonies 1 and 5 plus Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to "Tristan und Isolde"Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, WAB 105 Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Purchase the music (without talk) …
2:34:38Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 17, 2022
Episode 210: 18210 Claude Debussy
In 1949, two young Argentinian child prodigies met and made music together for the first time, the rest, as they say, is history. In continuation of Martha Argerich’s birthday celebrations, we announce a new …
1:19:33Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 16, 2022
Episode 208: 18209 Beethoven: The Conquering Hero - Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Jennifer Kloetzel’s lifelong journey with Beethoven began early: she was eight years old when her teacher placed the composer’s second cello sonata on her music stand, opening the door to an odyssey of intrigue …
3:06:11Classical Music Discoveries · Feb 15, 2022
Episode 99: 18199 Herrmann - Citizen Kane
The film's music was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann had composed for Welles for his Mercury Theatre radio broadcasts. Because it was Herrmann's first motion picture score, RKO wanted to pay him only a …
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