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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 Ba...
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...
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. Bi...
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 Conduct...
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 collecti...
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...
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...
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 Gre...
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...
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 2...
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 alb...
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...
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)
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...
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 fr...
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...
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...
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 rele...
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...
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 mos...
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 DiD...
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 h...
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...
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...
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...
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 bas...
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
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 M...
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...
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 Herrman...
Episode 211: 18211 Redeeming Love
REDEEMING LOVE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by composers BRIAN TYLER and BRETON VIVIAN. The album features music written by the com...
Episode 92: 18192 Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Les Huguenots was some five years in creation. Meyerbeer prepared carefully for this opera after the sensational success of Robert le diable, recogniz...
Episode 208: 18208 On DSCH
The new album “On DSCH” by Igor Levit is a 3CD discographic tour de force by “one of the essential artists of our time” (The New York Times). That the...
Episode 207: 18207 Primavera II - the rabbit
Multi-Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz’s latest recording, PRIMAVERA II the rabbits, features the next 13 of 81 new pieces written for Haimovit...
Episode 206: 18206 aubades
aubades, the new album from Jean-Michel Blais, marks the Montreal-born artist's transition from pianist to composer as he writes for an ensemble for t...
Episode 201: 18201 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2022
This year's concert was broadcast to over 90 countries all over the world and watched by more than 50 million viewers on TV. The TV broadcast gained a...
Episode 90: 18190 Chaplin - Modern Times
Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to sur...
Episode 204: 18204 America
Daniel Hope takes a deep dive into the rich repertoire of American music, exploring its roots and distinctive qualities. "We know a piece is from Amer...
Episode 91: 18191 Meyerbeer: Robert le diable (Robert the Devil)
Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) was immediately successful from its first night on 21 November 1831 at the Opéra; the dramatic music, harmony and...
Episode 203: 18203 John Williams The Berlin Concert
The album includes some works known to millions worldwide, and others, such as the Suite from Far and Away and the moving Elegy for cello and orchestr...