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...
Episode 231: 18231 Gems from Armenia (01:20:40)
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. Th...
Episode 222: 18222 Rossini: William Tell (04:08:14)
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...
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 co...
Episode 229: 18229 Voyager (02:44:54)
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 an...
Episode 230: 18230 Rossini - Aureliano in Palmira (02:40:33)
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 has g...
Episode 97: 18197 Orion Weiss - Arc 1 (01:20:37)
. 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 musical s...
Episode 85: 18185 Ruth Slenczynska (01:06:43)
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,...
Episode 228: 18228 Pop Channel (00:57:13)
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 ...
Episode 226: 18226 Rossini - The Italian Girl in Algiers (02:35:57)
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 the r...
Episode 227: 18227 Elle (00:57:50)
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 vir...
Episode 224: 18224 Night Music (01:05:45)
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 compose...
Episode 221: 18221 Bruckner: Symphonies 2 and 8 (02:39:36)
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
Purcha...
Episode 225: 18225 Rossini - The Curious Misunderstanding (02:11:23)
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 writi...
Episode 223: 18223 Rossini - featured opera composer for March 2022 (00:44:18)
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 (T...
Episode 84: 18184 Kate Soper - The Understanding of All Things (00:58:18)
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 ...
Episode 220: 18220 Nightscapes (01:21:45)
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 the...
Episode 213: 18213 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo (00:32:43)
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 Banjo, ...
Episode 96: 18196 Meyerbeer - The African Woman or Vasco de Gama (04:27:00)
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, usi...
Episode 218: 18219 City Lights (01:11:02)
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...
Episode 202: 18202 Eden (01:15:18)
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 he...
Episode 218: 18218 Bach - The Art of Life (02:24:27)
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-schoo...
Episode 214: 18214 Vestige (01:10:19)
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 ...
Episode 205: 18205 Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still (00:51:32)
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 one another. With...
Episode 212: 18212 Before and After (00:49:52)
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'...
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