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1 TUESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Saints be Praised.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. REINECKE Undine Sonata; James Galway, flute; Philip Moll, piano; S. WAGNER Violin Conc.; Juraj Cizmarovic, violin; Cologne Radio Sym. Orch.; Marcus Bosch, cond.; GRANADOS Excerpts from Goyescas; Victoria de los Angeles, soprano; Philharmonia Orch.; Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos & Alicia de Larrocha, piano
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Nationalism. Nationalism on its own is a dangerous force, but it has led to a number of wonderful bits of music. This edition of Exploring Music examines what happens when a powerful pride in national identity winds its way into a composer’s head. This week we cover music from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania on Monday; Hungary on Tuesday; France on Wednesday, and then rounding out the week with music from Scandinavia (Thursday) and Russia to Albion (Friday).
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. HOLST Beni Mora; Royal Phil. Orch.; Malcolm Sargent, cond.; GLAZUNOV Scenes de Ballet; Minnesota Orch.; Edo de Waart, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. ENGLUND The White Reindeer Suite; Lahti Sym. Orch.; Osmo Vanska, cond.; RAFF Four Pieces; Yuko Nishino, violin; Philharmonia Orch.; Yondani Butt, cond.; SIBELIUS Sym. #5 in E-flat; New York Phil.; Leonard Bernstein, cond.
8:00 Collector’s Corner with Henry Fogel.
10:00 Music Through the Night
2 WEDNESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Mostly Baroque.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. ROSSINI Semiramide Overt.; New York Phil.; Leonard Bernstein, cond.; HAYDN Sym. #100 in G, Military; Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch.; Adam Fischer, cond.; MOZART Piano Conc. #25 in C; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano & cond.; Philharmonia Orch.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Nationalism.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. GROFE Three Shades of Blue; The Beau Hunks; Jan Stulen, cond.; GILLIS Tulsa – A Portrait in Oil; Sinfonia Varsovia; Ian Hobson, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overt.; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Herbert von Karajan, cond.; SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in a; Lynn Harrell, cello; James Levine, cond.; GOUNOD Sym. #1 in D; Academy of St. Martin; Neville Marriner, cond.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra PROKOFIEV Lt. Kije Suite; MACMILLAN Veni, Veni, Emmanuel; Cynthia Yeh, percussion; REVUELTAS Sensemaya; LUTOSLAWSKI Conc. for Orch.; Carlos Miguel Prieto, cond.; LUTOSLAWSKI Cello Conc.; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
3 THURSDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Novelties.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. GOMES Sonata; Brazilian Guitar Quartet; GADE Holbergiana; Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil.; Ole Schmidt, cond.; BORRESEN Sym. #1 in c; Aalborg Sym. Orch.; Owain Arwel Hughes, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Nationalism.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. SCHUBERT Rosamunde Overt. & Entr’acte; Chamber Orch. of Europe; Claudio Abbado, cond.; MOZART Violin Conc. #3 in G; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin & cond.; Philharmonia Orch.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. LISZT Les Preludes; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Zubin Mehta, cond.; RACHMANINOFF Piano Conc. #4 in g; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Cleveland Orch.; Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond.; GLAZUNOV Sym. #5 in B-flat; Philharmonia Orch.; Yondani Butt, cond.
8:00 New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic Celebrates Zubin Mehta at 80 with musical highlights featuring Alisa Weilerstein, Daniel Barenboim and Ravi Shankar.
10:00 Music Through the Night
4 FRIDAY12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Classics of Chamber Music.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. MOSZKOWSKI Spanish Dances; San Francisco Ballet Orch.; Martin West, cond.; DELIUS The Dance Song from A Mass of Life; Benjamin Luxon, baritone; London Phil. Orch. & Chorus; Charles Groves, cond.; LITOLFF Robespierre Overt.; Boston Pops Orch.; Arthur Fiedler, cond.; LITOLFF Conc. Symphonique in E-flat; Michael Ponti, piano; Berlin Radio Sym.; Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Nationalism.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. LISZT Tasso – Lamento e Trionfo; Dresden Phil. Orch.; Michel Plasson, cond.; HAYDN Sym. #96 in D, Miracle; Detroit Sym. Orch.; Paul Paray, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. HUMMEL Trumpet Conc. in E-flat; Maurice Andre, trumpet; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Herbert von Karajan, cond.; R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; Cincinnati Sym. Orch.; Thomas Schippers, cond.; SPOHR Septet in a; Nash Ensemble
8:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra LUTOSLAWSKI Musique Funebre; BARTOK Piano Conc. #3; Orli Shaham, piano; TCHAIKOVSKY Sym. #6 in b, Pathetique; Hans Graf, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
5 SATURDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
5:00 Howard’s Day Off with Howard Dicus. The Need for Steed. Saddle up! It’s horsemusic! And oxen and donkeys and steers, but mostly horses, because there’s quite a herd of music works that gallop.
10:00 From the Top
11:00 Classical Guitar Alive! with Anthony Morris.
1:00 P.M. World of Opera VERDI Il Trovatore. Ekaterina Semenchuk (Azucena); Francesco Meli (Manrico); Lianna Haroutounian (Donna Leonora); Zeljko Lucic (Count di Luna); Maurizio Muraro (Ferrando); Jennifer Davis (Ines); David Junghoon (Ruiz); Royal Opera House Orch. & Chorus, Covent Garden; Gianandrea Noseda, cond. The story of this complex drama at times verges on the outlandish, but Verdi’s score also serves up an astonishing number of his most familiar melodies, making it one of the most popular of all the composer’s operas.
5:00 The Score with Edmund Lowe.
6:00 A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile.
8:00 The Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie. New Fall Sounds. This week’s hot instrumentalists and passionate vocals offer the perfect insulation against the winter chill.
9:00 Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael Lasser. Dreaming through the Forties – Songs about dreaming are an essential part of how we faced up to the world during World War II.
10:00 Millennium of Music with Robert Aubrey Davis.
11:00 Music Through the Night
6 SUNDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
5:00 Classical 24
8:00 With Heart & Voice with Peter Dubois. All Saints. On this edition of “With Heart and Voice,” we’ll listen to music celebrating the great “cloud of witnesses” of those who have passed before us. Join Peter Dubois as he shares sublime music for this observance.
9:00 Sunday Brunch with Gene Schiller. Enjoy three hours of your favorite music, as requested by the listeners of Hawaii Public Radio. To make your choice from our “musical brunch buffet” write to Sunday Brunch, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu, HI 96814. Or e-mail your request to us at: hprmusic@hawaiipublicradio.org (Subject: Sunday Brunch).
1:00 P.M. SymphonyCast STUCKY Rhapsody for Orch.; PROKOFIEV Violin Conc. #1 in D; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; BEETHOVEN Sym. #5 in c; Minnesota Orch.; Osmo Vanska, cond.
3:00 Sunday Baroque. A celebration of beloved and appealing music from the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. Enjoy the tuneful and lively music of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel – and music by their talented contemporaries and predecessors – as part of the mix of familiar favorites and new surprises.
4:00 Harmonia with Angela Mariani.
5:00 Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. The Election is at our throats. Jean Shepherd addresses the Convention with “My Fellow Americans.” Christoph Colombi gives the “Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech;” Bob and Ray offer an interview with Presidential Candidate G.L. Hummercrack; also an interview with a sore loser candidate. Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain discusses Congress. Mark Levy’s Radio Essay is on “Elections.” This Week in the Media.
6:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center SCHUBERT Ballet music No. 2 from Rosamunde (arr. Kreisler); Benjamin Beilman, violin; Yekwon Sunwoo, piano; SCHUBERT Erlkonig; Yunpeng Wang, baritone; Inon Barnatan, piano; ZEMLINSKY String Quartet #2; Escher Quartet
7:00 Singing and Other Sins with Gary Hickling. Allerseelen (All Souls’ Day). The program celebrates All Souls’ Day and a remembrance of those we have loved and lost throughout the years and the reality of death. Guest host Blair Boone-Migura will sample art song, choral, piano, and other instrumental pieces that include compositions by Strauss, Schubert, Debussy, Liszt, among others. This episode is considered a companion program to Gary Hickling’s episode entitled Comfort and Loss from Feb 2016.
8:00 New Sounds
9:00 The Early Muse with Ian Capps. Baltic Strains. Beyond the major centers of Hamburg and Lubeck, a number of smaller independent communities around the Baltic Sea, from Stettin to Vilnius, hosted highly regarded musicians. Sadly, they were not much noted outside, either then or now. This week, the Early Muse samples some of their instrumental and vocal works.10:00 Music from the Hearts of Space. Take a journey through inner space with music that evokes the feeling of the cosmos.
11:00 Music Through the Night
7 MONDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Funereal Splendors.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. PROKOFIEV Sym. #1 in D, Classical; Philadelphia Orch.; Riccardo Muti, cond.; LALO Piano Trio in c; Eroica Trio; TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenirs de Florence; Orpheus Chamber Orch.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I Hear America Sing. Election Time! As our nation turns our minds and hearts to vote we here at Exploring Music celebrate America’s unique voice in music. Bill takes on the music and poetry of America, from Walt Whitman to Aaron Copland.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. BARTOK Dance Suite; Philharmonia Hungarica; Antal Dorati, cond.; STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Leopold Stokowski, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. QUILTER Children’s Overt.; Light Music Society Orch.; Vivian Dunn, cond.; RAVEL Mother Goose Suite; Boston Sym. Orch.; Charles Munch, cond.; DOHNANYI Variations on a Nursery Tune; Andras Schiff, piano; Chicago Sym. Orch.; Georg Solti, cond.
8:00 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVEN Egmont Overt.; DVORAK Sym. #9 in e, New World; MACMILLAN Sym. #4; Manfred Honeck, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
8 TUESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Women Composers – Can you tell the difference?
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. ALFVEN Midsommarvaka (Swedish Rhapsody #1); Philadelphia Orch.; Eugene Ormandy, cond.; JENSEN Partita Sinfonica, The Drover; Oslo Phil. Orch.; Ole Kristian Ruud, cond.; GRIEG String Quartet in g; Guarneri Quartet
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I Hear America Sing.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. SCHUMANN Genoveva Overt.; London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, cond.; BEETHOVEN Triple Conc. in C; David Oistrakh, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Herbert von Karajan, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. LARSSON A Winter’s Tale; CBC Vancouver Orch.; Mario Bernardi, cond.; WIENIAWSKI Violin Conc. #2 in d; Gil Shaham, violin; London Sym. Orch.; Lawrence Foster, cond.; STENHAMMAR Serenade in F; Gothenburg Sym. Orch.; Neeme Jarvi, cond.
8:00 Collector’s Corner with Henry Fogel.
10:00 Music Through the Night
9 WEDNESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: The Sun Also Rises.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sadko; Russian State Sym. Orch.; Evgeny Svetlanov, conc.; GRECHANINOV Kvalite Boga (Praise the Lord); Russian State Symphony Cappella; Russian State Sym.; Valery Polyansky, cond.; SIBELIUS Incidental music from The Tempest; Royal Phil. Orch.; Thomas Beecham, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I Hear America Sing.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. TOMASI Trumpet Conc.; Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet; Lausanne Chamber Orch.; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, cond.; GOULD Chorale & Fugue in Jazz; Albany Sym. Orch.; David Alan Miller, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. MASSENET Scenes Dramatiques; New Zealand Sym. Orch.; Jean-Yves Ossonce, cond.; BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Leontyne Price, soprano; New Philharmonia Orch.; Thomas Schippers, cond.; BARTOK Divertimento for Strings; Chicago Sym. Orch.; Georg Solti, cond.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra MOZART Piano Conc. #22 in E-flat; Till Fellner, piano; R. STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony; Bernard Haitink, cond.; WEBERN Im Sommerwind (CSO Resound Recording)
10:00 Music Through the Night
10 THURSDAY12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Birthdays & Anniversaries.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. TURINA Danzas Fantasticas; Cincinnati Sym. Orch.; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, cond.; DVORAK The Wood Dove; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Simon Rattle, cond.; FIBICH Sym. #1 in F; Razumovsky Sym. Orch.; Andrew Mogrelia, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I Hear America Sing.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. KLAMI King Lear Overt.; Tampere Phil. Orch.; Tuomas Ollila, cond.; PROKOFIEV Lt. Kije Suite; Chicago Sym. Orch.; Fritz Reiner, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. SAINT-SAENS Omphale’s Spinning Wheel; Boston Sym. Orch.; Charles Munch, cond.; SCHUMANN Cello Conc. in a; Janos Starker, cello; London Sym. Orch.; Antal Dorati, cond.; DVORAK Piano Quintet in A; Rudolf Firkusny, piano; Ridge Quartet
8:00 New York Philharmonic CURRIER Time Machines; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; MAHLER Sym. #5; Alan Gilbert, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
11 FRIDAY12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Old Timers.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. HARRIS When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Seattle Sym. Orch.; Gerard Schwarz, cond.; GOULD West Point Sym.; Eastman Wind Ensemble; Frederick Fennell, cond.; SHOSTAKOVICH Sym. #7, Leningrad, opening movt.; Chicago Sym. Orch.; Leonard Bernstein, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I Hear America Sing.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. GOUNOD Petite Sym. for Winds; Sinfonia Orch. of Chicago; Barry Faldner, cond.; MARTINU Sinfonietta La Jolla; Royal Liverpool Phil. Orch.; Walter Weller, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. POULENC Clarinet Sonata; Michel Portal, clarinet; Jacques Fevrier, piano; GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue; Earl Wild, piano; Benny Goodman, clarinet; NBC Sym. Orch.; Arturo Toscanini, cond.; FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat; Jan de Gaetani, soprano; New York Phil.; Pierre Boulez, cond.
8:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra BRAHMS Sym. #1 in c; BRAHMS Sym. #2 in D; Edo de Waart, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
12 SATURDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
5:00 Howard’s Day Off with Howard Dicus. Prokofiev-a-palooza. An entire show from the composer of Peter and the Wolf, including covers by Free Flight, Sauter-Finegan, and Sting.
10:00 From the Top
11:00 Classical Guitar Alive! with Anthony Morris.
1:00 P.M. World of Opera ENESCU Oedipe. Johan Reuter (Oedipus); Sophie Bevan (Antigone); John Tomlinson (Tiresias); Caludia Huckle (Merope); Sarah Connolly (Jocasta); Marie-Nicole Lemieux (The Sphinx); Alan Oke (Shepherd); Nicolas Courjal (High Priest); Hubert Francis (Laius); Samuel Youn (Creon); In-Sung Sim (Phorbus); Stefan Kocan (The Watcher); Samuel Dale Johnson (Theseus); Royal Opera House Orch. & Chorus, Covent Garden; Leo Hussain, cond. While Enescu’s music sometimes reveals the influences of Brahms, Wagner and Faure, he also imbued his work with distinctly Romanian elements, creating a fascinating and highly original personal style. This intense drama is based on the classic Oedipus play by Sophocles.
5:00 The Score with Edmund Lowe.
6:00 A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile.
8:00 The Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie. The American Folklife Center at Forty – part 1. In 1976, the American Folklife Center was created at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Charged with preserving and presenting American folklife, its collections and events also embrace cultures from every corner of the globe, and include about 6 million sound recordings. We join in with the AFC 40th anniversary celebrations as folklorists Nancy Groce and Steve Winick guide us through some of the Center’s remarkable recordings of iconic songs.
9:00 Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael Lasser. Broadway Trios – An often rollicking crescendo from many of the best Broadway musicals, trios offer close harmony, bouncy rhythms, and three viewpoints in one.
10:00 Millennium of Music with Robert Aubrey Davis. Early Baroque Spain. Secular works by Juan Hidalgo, sacred music of Juan Bautista Gomes, and love songs from the 17th century court.
11:00 Music Through the Night
13 SUNDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
5:00 Classical 24
8:00 With Heart & Voice with Peter Dubois. “I believe…” The Credo is the central element of the Ordinary of the Mass. This program will explore a variety of choral and organ settings that reinforce the opening statement, “I believe…”
9:00 Sunday Brunch with Gene Schiller. Enjoy three hours of your favorite music, as requested by the listeners of Hawaii Public Radio. To make your choice from our “musical brunch buffet” write to Sunday Brunch, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu, HI 96814. Or e-mail your request to us at: hprmusic@hawaiipublicradio.org (Subject: Sunday Brunch).
1:00 P.M. SymphonyCast STRAVINSKY Fireworks; SCHOENFIELD Four Parables for Piano & Orch.; Natasha Peremski, piano; HOLST The Planets; Oregon Sym. Orch.; Carlos Kalmar, cond.
3:00 Sunday Baroque. A celebration of beloved and appealing music from the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. Enjoy the tuneful and lively music of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel – and music by their talented contemporaries and predecessors – as part of the mix of familiar favorites and new surprises.
4:00 Harmonia with Angela Mariani. Joyful and Content: Dances from Spain. We’ll explore the diverse musical influences in medieval and baroque Spain through the lens of some innovative performers who aren’t afraid to let their personalities permeate the music. We’ll also pay tribute to Washington D.C. based early music giant, J. Reilly Lewis, who passed away on June 9, 2016.
5:00 Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. Stuart McLean tells his story about “The Jock Strap.” Peter Schickele presents excerpts from “The Short Tempered Clavier” and “The Little Pickle Book.” Jan C. Snow offers thoughts on “New Words.” This Week in the Media.
6:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center TELEMANN Suite in G for Strings; Daniel Phillips, Arnaud Sussman, violins; Yura Lee, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello; David Grossman, double bass; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; VIVALDI Sonata in a minor, RV 43; Efe Baltacigil, cello solo; Dane Johansen, cello; Paul O’Dette, lute; John Gibbons, harpsichord; BACH Conc. in d for Two Violins, BWV 1043; Alexander Sitkovetsky & Daniel Hope, violins; CMS ensemble
7:00 Singing and Other Sins with Gary Hickling. Symphonic Voices. There are many wonderful symphonic works that include solo voice. It’s the goal of this edition to share with you some of them. In these works, the basic combination of voice and piano most often associated with art song is contradicted. The most obvious choice is the last movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, but others include Ross Harris’ Symphony #5; Ernst Toch’s Die Chinesische Flote; Kaija Saariaho’s Chateau de L’ame.
8:00 New Sounds
9:00 The Early Muse with Ian Capps. The Glory of Battle. On Veteran’s Day each year, we celebrate old victories and remember those lost in battle. But in some wars, the battlefield is love. This week we contrast the madrigals of love and war by Monteverdi with music for the victories of Marignano in 1515 and Vienna almost 160 years later.
10:00 Music from the Hearts of Space. Take a journey through inner space with music that evokes the feeling of the cosmos.
11:00 Music Through the Night
14 MONDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Mostly Baroque.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. MARTUCCI Andante & Colore Orientale; Philharmonia Orch.; Francesco D’Avalos, cond.; FAURE Ballade; Daniel Varsano, piano; Philharmonia Orch.; Andrew Davis, cond.; MAHLER Sym. #10, Adagio & Purgatorio; City of Birmingham Sym. Orch.; Simon Rattle, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Symphony, Part IV. The symphony at its romantic apex. We start the week featuring the Austrian composers Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler, and then across the English Channel to Britain to listen to the music of Edward Elgar.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso; Orch. de Paris; Jean Martinon, cond.; CHAUSSON Sym. in B-flat; Montreal Sym. Orch.; Charles Dutoit, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. SINDING Suite for Violin; Itzhak Perlman, violin; Pittsburgh Sym. Orch.; Andre Previn, cond.; BERNSTEIN Candide Suite; Minnesota Orch.; Eiji Oue, cond.; RACHMANINOFF Aleko Suite; U.S.S.R. Sym. Orch.; Evgeny Svetlanov, cond.; RACHMANINOFF Isle of the Dead; BBC Welsh Sym. Orch.; Tadaaki Otaka, cond.
8:00 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra BACH Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 42; BACH Orchestral Suite #2; VIVALDI Conc. for Two Cellos in g; TELEMANN Grillensymphonie; BACH Conc. in c for Oboe, Violin, and String Orch.; VIVALDI (arr. Sorrell) La Follia Conc. for 2 Violins; Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin; Jennifer Ross, violin; Lorna McGhee, flute; Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, oboe; Anne Martindale Williams, cello; David Premo, cello; Jeffrey Turner, bass; John Moore, bass; Jeanette Sorrell, cond. & harpsichord
10:00 Music Through the Night
15 TUESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Fantastic Finales.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. BAX Elegiac Trio; Megan Meisenbach, flute; Mary Golden, harp; David Hermann, viola; BAX November Woods; Ulster Orch.; Bryden Thomson, cond.; KORNGOLD Violin Conc.; Gil Shaham, violin; London Sym. Orch.; Andre Previn, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Symphony, Part IV.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. KUHLAU Elverhoj Overt.; Danish National Radio Sym. Orch.; John Frandsen, cond.; NIELSEN Sym. #2, The Four Temperaments; San Francisco Sym. Orch.; Herbert Blomstedt, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. BEETHOVEN String Quartet #12 in B-flat; Emerson Quartet; GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Sym.; New York Phil.; Leonard Bernstein, cond.
8:00 Collector’s Corner with Henry Fogel.
10:00 Music Through the Night
16 WEDNESDAY
12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: The Fabulous Fifties.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. DEBUSSY Printemps; San Francisco Ballet Orch. & Chorus; Martin West, cond.; LOUIS GLASS Summer Life Suite; Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil. Orch.; Daniel Raiskin, cond.; THOMSON Autumn; Ann Mason Stockton, harp; Los Angeles Chamber Orch.; Neville Marriner, cond.; RAFF Sym. #11 in a, Winter; Philharmonia Hungarica; Werner Andreas Albert, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Symphony, Part IV.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. ATTERBERG Horn Conc.; Martin Hackleman, horn; CBC Vancouver Orch.; Mario Bernardi, cond.; BORODIN Sym. #2 in b; Rotterdam Phil. Orch.; Valery Gergiev, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. PIERNE Ramuntcho Suite #1; Lorraine Phil. Orch.; Jacques Houtmann, cond.; LALO Symphonie Espagnole; Augustin Dumay, violin; Toulouse Sym. Orch.; Michel Plasson, cond.; MOZART Sym. #39 in E-flat; Vienna Phil. Orch.; James Levine, cond.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra ELGAR In the South (Alassio); BEETHOVEN Piano Conc. #5 in E-flat, Emperor; Paul Lewis, piano; RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances; Vasily Petrenko, cond.
10:00 Music Through the Night
17 THURSDAY12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Film Fanatic.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. AKUTAGAWA Music for Symphony Orchestra; Tokyo Metropolitan Sym. Orch.; Ryusuke Numajiri, cond.; THOMSON Cello Conc., Rider on the Plains; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Nashville Sym. Orch.; Paul Gambill, cond.; COWEN Sym. #6 in E, Idyllic; Aarhus Sym. Orch.; Douglas Bostock, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Symphony, Part IV.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. MILHAUD Le Cheminee de Roi; New York Woodwind Quintet; KODALY Peacock Variations; London Sym. Orch.; Istvan Kertesz, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. MOSCHELES Concertante in F; Aurele Nicolet, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Frankfurt Radio Sym.; Eliahu Inbal, cond.; BEETHOVEN Sym. #8 in F; Chicago Sym. Orch.; Georg Solti, cond.; SCHARWENKA Piano Conc. #1 in B-flat minor; Earl Wild, piano; Boston Sym. Orch.; Erich Leinsdorf, cond.
8:00 New York Philharmonic BEETHOVEN Egmont Overt.; HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber; BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis; Christine Brewer, soprano; Jane Henschel, soprano; Anthony
Dean Griffey, tenor; Eric Owens, bass-baritone; New York Choral Artists; Alan Gilbert, cond.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Surprise Package.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. WEBER Abu Hassan Overt.; Bavarian State Sym. Orch.; Wolfgang Sawallisch, cond.; SCHUBERT Sym. #5 in B-flat; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Herbert von Karajan, cond.; BEETHOVEN Violin Conc. in D; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Boston Sym. Orch.; Charles Munch, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Symphony, Part IV.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. SATIE Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear; Aldo Ciccolini & Gabriele Tacchino, pianos; VILLA-LOBOS Guitar Conc.; Goran Sollscher, guitar; Orpheus Chamber Orch.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. PONCHIELLI Dance of the Hours; Philadelphia Orch.; Eugene Ormandy, cond.; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh Suite; Scottish National Orch.; Neeme Jarvi, cond.; TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet #1 in D; Gabrieli Quartet
8:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra BRAHMS Sym. #3 in F; BRAHMS Sym. #4 in e; Edo de Waart, cond.
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5:00 Howard’s Day Off with Howard Dicus. A Level Playing Field. If you’re new to classical music, maybe you think all the other listeners know more than you do about what’s being played. Well, not this week, when I deliberately seek out pieces obscure enough that the cognoscenti will be as baffled as normal people!
10:00 From the Top
11:00 Classical Guitar Alive! with Anthony Morris.
1:00 P.M. World of Opera BELLINI Norma. Sonya Yoncheva (Norma); Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa); Joseph Calleja (Pollione); Brindley Sherratt (Oroveso); Vlada Borovko (Clotilde); David Junghoon Kim (Flavio); Royal Opera House & Chorus, Covent Garden; Antonio Pappano, cond. Perhaps the ultimate bel canto classic, Bellini’s masterpiece features a powerfully emotional story and a title role that’s among the most challenging in all opera, sung here by the exciting young Bulgarian soprano, Sonya Yoncheva.
5:00 The Score with Edmund Lowe.
6:00 A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile.
8:00 The Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie. The American Folklife Center at Forty – part 2. In 1976, the American Folklife Center was created at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Charged with preserving and presenting American folklife, its collections and events also embrace cultures from every corner of the globe. In our second program marking the AFC 40th anniversary, folklorists Nancy Groce and Steve Winick guide us through the lifework of some dedicated individuals who contributed their song collections to the Center’s extraordinary archives.
9:00 Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael Lasser. One Damn Thing After Another – Catalogue songs that rely on wit to lay out our endlessly messy lives.
10:00 Millennium of Music with Robert Aubrey Davis. Jacobus Vaet. Another Lowlander who worked for Charles V, the four CD recording of Vaet’s sacred music featuring the Dufay Ensemble is finally available.
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5:00 Classical 24
8:00 With Heart & Voice with Peter Dubois. Christ the King & Thanksgiving. The Liturgical Year concludes this week with the celebration of the Feast of Christ the King, looking forward to the Second Coming – even as we mark the traditional American holiday of Thanksgiving. Peter DuBois will help us celebrate both with great choral and organ music.
9:00 Sunday Brunch with Gene Schiller. Enjoy three hours of your favorite music, as requested by the listeners of Hawaii Public Radio. To make your choice from our “musical brunch buffet” write to Sunday Brunch, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu, HI 96814. Or e-mail your request to us at: hprmusic@hawaiipublicradio.org (Subject: Sunday Brunch).
1:00 P.M. SymphonyCast MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overt.; ADES Violin Conc., Concentric Paths; Augustin Hadelich, violin; ELGAR Sym. #1 in a; Oregon Sym. Orch.; Carlos Kalmar, cond.
3:00 Sunday Baroque. A celebration of beloved and appealing music from the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. Enjoy the tuneful and lively music of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel – and music by their talented contemporaries and predecessors – as part of the mix of familiar favorites and new surprises.
4:00 Harmonia with Angela Mariani. The Devil’s Acre. You already know what it looks like. The soaring towers and imposing façade of Westminster Abbey are practically visual shorthand for England. But do you know what it sounds like? We’ll explore music in the shadow of Westminster Abbey.
5:00 Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. We offer some material recently acquired CDs by Steven Wright, National Lampoon, and George Carlin. And we re-visit some Bob Newhart bits such as “One Eyed Bullfighter,” and “On Poodles and Planes.” Richard Howland-Bolton says “Hello World.” This Week in the Media.
6:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center BERG Sieben fruhe ; Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano; ULLMANN Liederbuch des Hafis; Kelly Markgraf, baritone; Wu Han, piano; BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52; Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; John Bellemer, tenor; Kelly Markgraf, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Wu Han, piano
7:00 Singing and Other Sins with Gary Hickling. Swedish Art Songs. Sadly, the major composers of Sweden are unknown to most music lovers. They include Ture Rangstrom, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Gunnar De Frumerie, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfven, and Emil Sjogren. We’ll hear these composers sung by great artists such as Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Miah Persson, Hakan Hagegard, and Helge Brilioth.
8:00 New Sounds
9:00 The Early Muse with Ian Capps. The Vespers for Saint Cecilia. This week, I revisit the monumental Vespers for the patron Saint of Music, St. Cecilia, by Alessandro Scarlatti, as her Feast Day approaches. The great Magnificat and antiphons for the Psalms are celebrated in a live concert performance by the Philharmonia Chorale & Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, directed by Nicholas McGegan.
10:00 Music from the Hearts of Space. Take a journey through inner space with music that evokes the feeling of the cosmos.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Autumn Leaves.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. LORTZING Czar und Zimmerman Overt.; Bavarian Radio Sym.; Heinz Fricker, cond.; MEDTNER Piano Conc. #3 in e; Nikolai Demidenko, piano; BBC Scottish Sym. Orch.; Jerzy Maksymiuk, cond.; BRUCKNER Sym. #8 in c, mvts. 2 & 3; NDR Sym. Orch.; Gunter Wand, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. TBA
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. GRIEG In Autumn; Gothenburg Sym. Orch.; Neeme Jarvi, cond.; TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Suite #3; Stuttgart Radio Sym.; Neville Marriner, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending; Pinchas Zukerman, violin; English Chamber Orch.; GOOSSENS Five Impressions of a Holiday; Huntingdon Trio; ELGAR Excerpts from The Wand of Youth; London Phil. Orch.; Adrian Boult, cond.
8:00 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra RACHMANINOFF (arr. Carpenter) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Cameron Carpenter, organ; SHOSTAKOVICH Sym. #10 in e; Manfred Honeck, cond.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Drinking Songs.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Berlin Phil. Orch.; Herbert von Karajan, cond.; BOCCHERINI Sym. #3 in C; Philharmonia Orch.; Raymond Leppard, cond.; BRUCH Scottish Fantasy; Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Scottish Chamber Orch.; Alexander Platt, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. TBA
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. FRUMERIE Suite Pastorale; Kathleen Rudolph, flute; CBC Vancouver Orch.; Mario Bernardi, cond.; WOLF-FERRARI Cello Conc. in C, Invocazione; Gustav Rivinius, cello; Frankfurt Radio Sym.; Alun Francis, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. KODALY Summer Evening; Orpheus Chamber Orch.; STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite; Atlanta Sym. Orch.; Yoel Levi, cond.; PAGANINI Violin Conc. #4 in d; Uto Ughi, violin & cond.; Chamber Orch. of Santa Cecilia
8:00 Collector’s Corner with Henry Fogel.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Stormy Weather.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. BRAEIN Concertino for Flute; Ornulf Gulbransen, flute; Bergen Phil. Orch.; Sverre Bruland, cond.; IBERT Elizabethan Suite; Manhattan Chamber Orch.; Richard Auldon Clark, cond.; HUBER Sym. #4 in a, Academic; Stuttgart Phil. Orch.; Jorg Peter Weigle, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. TBA
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. PAINE As You Like It Overt.; New York Phil.; Zubin Mehta, cond.; COPLAND Appalachian Spring; Boston Sym. Orch.; Aaron Copland, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. ROSSINI Le Siege de Corinth Overt.; National Phil. Orch.; Riccardo Chailly, cond.; MOZART Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Singer, clarinet; William Purvis, horn; Steven Dibner, bassoon; Orpheus Chamber Orch.; MEHUL Sym. #1 in g; Rhenish Phil. Orch; Jorge Rotter, cond.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Wasps Overt.; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus; ELGAR Sym. #1 in a; Mark Elder, cond.; BRITTEN Suite on English Folk Songs; Jaap van Zweden, cond.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: 21st Century Classics.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. SINDING Romance; Henning Kraggerud, violin; Bournemouth Sym. Orch.; Bjarte Engeset, cond.; CHOPIN Variations on Mozart’s ‘La ci darem la mano;’ Garrick Ohlsson, piano; Warsaw Phil. Orch.; Kazimierz Kord, cond.; REGER Romantic Suite; Saarbrucken Radio Sym. Orch.; Hans Zander, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. TBA
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. SPOHR Concertante in G for Violin & Harp; Ruggiero Ricci, violin; Susanna Mildonian, harp; Orch. of Radio Luxembourg; Louis de Froment, cond.; BERWALD Grande Septet in B-flat; Czech Nonet
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. BACH Brandenburg Conc. #5 in D; Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, cond.; TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien; RCA Victor Sym. Orch.; Kiril Kondrashin, cond.; GLIERE Horn Conc. in B-flat; Hermann Baumann, horn; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch.; Kurt Masur, cond.
8:00 New York Philharmonic JANACEK The Cunning Little Vixen; Alan Opie, baritone; Melissa Parks, mezzo-soprano; Keith Jameson, tenor; Wilbur Pauley, bass; Joshua Bloom, baritone; Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano; Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano; Serena Benedetti, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Emalie Savoy, soprano; Devon Guthrie, soprano; Lacey Benter, mezzo-soprano; New York Choral Artists; Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus; Alan Gilbert, cond.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: The Wonderful World of Vinyl.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. ELGAR Serenade for Strings; Orpheus Chamber Orch.; BLISS Cello Conc.; Arto Noras, cello; Bournemouth Sym. Orch.; Paavo Berglund, cond.; WALTON Sym. #1 in b; Royal Phil. Orch.; Andre Previn, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. TBA
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. RESPIGHI Poema Autunnale; Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; BBC Phil. Orch.; Edward Downes, cond.; RIISAGER Sym. #4; Aarhus Sym. Orch.; Bo Holten, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with John Zak. FUCHS Quiet in the Land; Members of the London Sym. Orch.; JoAnn Falletta, cond.; SAINT-SAENS Piano Conc. #2 in G; Artur Rubinstein, piano; Sym. of the Air; Alfred Wallenstein, cond.; BIZET L’Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2; Detroit Sym. Orch.; Paul Paray, cond.
8:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra VERDI Requiem; Amber Wagner, soprano; Stefanie Iranyi, alto; Garrett Sorenson, tenor; Morris Robinson, bass; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus; Asher Fisch, cond.
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5:00 Howard’s Day Off with Howard Dicus. Traveling Music. Yes, a little traveling music, classical works inspired by distant places. Some the composers imagined; in the case of places they actually visited, they wrote rhapsodies, Facebook not having yet been invented.
10:00 From the Top
11:00 Classical Guitar Alive! with Anthony Morris.
1:00 P.M. World of Opera ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia. Erwin Schrott (Selim); Olga Peretyatko (Fiorilla); Cecilia Molinari (Zaida); Nicola Alaimo (Geronio); Rene Barbera (Narciso); Pietro Spagnoli (Prosdocimo); Levy Sekgapane (Albazar); G. Rossini Sym. Orch.; Teatro della Fortuna M. Agostino Chorus; Speranza Scappucci, cond. With A Turk in Italy, Rossini turns the narrative tables on his own, more popular comedy, The Italian Girl in Algiers. This opera may be less familiar but it’s every bit as funny.
5:00 The Score with Edmund Lowe.
6:00 A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile.
8:00 The Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie. The Singing Kettle. As we enter the festive season, many parties, concerts and carol singing events are geared toward children for whom this time of year is especially magical. Fiona reaches back into the archives to remember her visit with children’s entertainers Cilla Fisher and Artie Tresize. For many years the duo performed as “The Singing Kettle” and their shows often evoked the playful traditions of pantomime, so popular in the UK at this time of the year.
9:00 Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael Lasser. The Little Things – When little things turn up in love songs, they take on dimension and the weight of emotions deeply felt.
10:00 Millennium of Music with Robert Aubrey Davis. Italy Around 1600 – Sacred Edition. New sacred music recordings by the Marian Consort of works by Gesualdo, New York Polyphony performing Palestrina and Victoria, and some world-premiere recordings of music by Palestrina’s successor in Rome, Giovanni Mario Nanino.
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8:00 With Heart & Voice with Peter Dubois. Advent 1. The new liturgical year begins with Advent, with its themes of anticipation of the coming of the Messiah which permeate the coming four weeks of preparation. Choral and organ music of longing and expectation will be featured as we begin the Advent journey.
9:00 Sunday Brunch with Gene Schiller. Enjoy three hours of your favorite music, as requested by the listeners of Hawaii Public Radio. To make your choice from our “musical brunch buffet” write to Sunday Brunch, Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu, HI 96814. Or e-mail your request to us at: hprmusic@hawaiipublicradio.org (Subject: Sunday Brunch).
1:00 P.M. SymphonyCast BRAHMS Tragic Overt.; BRAHMS Piano Conc. #2 in B-flat; Emanuel Ax, piano; BEETHOVEN Sym. #7 in A; New York Phil.; Alan Gilbert, cond.
3:00 Sunday Baroque. A celebration of beloved and appealing music from the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. Enjoy the tuneful and lively music of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel – and music by their talented contemporaries and predecessors – as part of the mix of familiar favorites and new surprises.
4:00 Harmonia with Angela Mariani. With Lute and Harp. We’re celebrating the feast day of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Supposedly beheaded with a sword, her feast day, observed on November 22nd, has been celebrated since around the 4th century.
5:00 Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. Excerpts from “George Burns-100 Years, 100 Stories,” as told by John Byner. And a bit from a Burns and Allen radio show “Gracie works in a Department Store.” George sings “I wish I were 18 again.” Mark Levy and This Week in the Media.
6:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center BACH Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F; BACH Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D; BACH Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G; CMS Ensemble
7:00 Singing and Other Sins with Gary Hickling. Bach Songs. As close as most listeners get to Bach’s vocal music is in his impressive cantatas. But he did write music for voice and keyboard. Mostly sacred and devotional, there are two with which we are familiar: Bist du bei mir (a melody by Stolzel, which Bach harmonized, and O Jesulein sus, o Jesulein mild, which is often sung at Christmas. Some of the voices we’ll hear include: Georg Jelden, baritone; Elly Ameling, soprano; Ernst Haefliger, tenor; Hugues Cuenod, tenor; and Hildegard Roessel-Majdan, contralto.
8:00 New Sounds
9:00 The Early Muse with Ian Capps. Advent in Germany. November 27 is the first Sunday of Advent 2016. The Early Muse celebrates with music of two distinguished composers of northern Germany spanning the 17th century – Hieronymous Praetorius of Hamburg and Dietrich Buxtehude of Lubeck.
10:00 Music from the Hearts of Space. Take a journey through inner space with music that evokes the feeling of the cosmos.
11:00 Music Through the Night
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: Mostly Baroque.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras #5; Mady Mesple, soprano; Orch. de Paris; Paul Capolongo, cond.; VILLA-LOBOS Fantasia for Cello & Orch.; Janos Starker, cello; Orquesta Sinfonica da Paraiba; Eleazer de Carvalho, cond.; ENESCU First Suite for Orch.; Monte-Carlo Phil. Orch.; Lawrence Foster, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Big Five, Part 1: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. We’ll reach back into the history, growth and development of one of America’s great musical institutions. We will touch on the composers, conductors, patrons, and musicians who all had a hand in making this orchestra a vital and thriving world treasure.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. BRAHMS (arr. Schonberg) Piano Quartet #1 in g; City of Birmingham Sym. Orch.; Simon Rattle, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. ALBENIZ Rapsodia Espanola; Alicia de Larrocha, piano; London Phil. Orch.; Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, cond.; THOMSON Acadian Airs & Dances; Cleveland Pops Orch.; Louis Lane, cond.; PAINE Sym. #1 in c; New York Phil.; Zubin Mehta, cond.
8:00 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra BARBER The School for Scandal Overt.; BARBER Adagio for Strings; BARBER Violin Conc.; Simone Porter, violin; WILIAMS Sound the Bells; SLATKIN Kinah; GERSHWIN Pory & Bess: A Symphonic Picture; Leonard Slatkin, cond.
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8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s
theme: Operatic Rarities.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. BENNETT Barcarolle; Carol Rosenberger, piano; BENNETT Enchanted April Suite; Studio Orch.; Neill Robinson, cond.; DOHNANYI Sym. #2 in E; BBC Phil. Orch.; Matthias Bamert, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Big Five, Part 1: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. ENESCU Rumanian Rhapsody #1; RCA Victor Sym. Orch.; Leopold Stokowski, cond.; STILL Sym. #1, Afro-American; Fort Smith Sym. Orch.; John Jeter, cond.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. IBERT Capriccio; Manhattan Chamber Orch.; Richard Auldon Clark, cond.; RESPIGHI Ancient Airs & Dances Suite #1; Academy of St. Martin; Neville Marriner, cond.; RODRIGO Concierto para una fiesta; David Russell, guitar; Naples Phil. Orch.; Erich Kunzel, cond.
8:00 Collector’s Corner with Henry Fogel.
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12:00 A.M. Music Through the Night
8:30 Morning Café with Gene Schiller. Get the day going with a refreshing blend of music, The Writer’s Almanac, special features…and more music. Today’s theme: New Names, New Recordings.
10:00 Morning Concert with Gene Schiller. MASSENET Phedre Overt.; Detroit Sym. Orch.; Paul Paray, cond.; BIZET Sym. in C; National Phil. Orch.; Leopold Stokowski, cond.; SAINT-SAENS Excerpts from Samson et Dalila; Rise Stevens, mezzo-soprano; Mario Del Monaco, tenor; Metropolitan Opera Orch.; Fausto Cleva, cond.
12:00 P.M. Performance Today
2:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The Big Five, Part 1: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
3:00 Masterworks Hour with Gene Schiller. DUKAS Polyeucte Overt.; BBC Phil. Orch.; Yan Pascal Tortelier, cond.; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Conc. #2; Andrew Litton, piano & cond.; Dallas Sym. Orch.
6:06 Evening Concert with Craig DeSilva. DEBUSSY Petite Suite; French National Orch.; Jean Martinon, cond.; FAURE Piano Trio in d; Gould Piano Trio; BRAHMS Serenade #1 in D; Scottish Chamber Orch.; Charles Mackerras, cond.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra MOZART Adagio in b, K. 540; MOZART Piano Conc. #19 in F; Mitsuko Uchida, piano & cond.; SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A, Trout; Robert Chen, violin; Charles Pikler, viola; John Sharp, cello; Alexander Hanna, bass; Mitsuko Uchida, piano; MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; WILLIAMS Excerpt from Lincoln soundtrack; John Williams, cond.
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