Pan-Fare, the album's starting point, is a rare modern classical piece for steel pan and a motley, jazz-inflected ensemble. Fun, energetic, and brimming with rhythmic imagination, it is set against an original percussive backdrop provided by, among others, a vibraslap, a marimba, and a Chinese opera gong. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p744/When_You_Reminded_by_the_Instruments_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support o...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 15Ep. 27
Anton Bruckner's final symphony with "Te Deum", Bruckner's proposed 4th movement to the symphony. Kathryn Cavanaugh conducts the CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Orchestra for movements 1, 2 and 3 Dominique Beaulieu conducts the CMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus in Orleans for "Te Deum" Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p742/Bruckner%3A_Symphony_No._9_in_D_minor_-_Te_Deum_in_C_Major.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical ...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 15Ep. 26
Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor (Op. 40) in Paris in 1924-5, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and steel". The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p741/Prokof...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 15Ep. 25
Acclaimed piano four-hand duo Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt come together once more for IN YOUR HEAD, a collection featuring the work of six composers that highlights both fresh compositional talents and earlier successful works. Each piece demonstrates the unique synergy between the two performers. With twice the hands, twice the talent, and twice the interpretation, the piano is pushed to dynamic and sonoric extremes. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classical...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 15Ep. 23
Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his Opus 81 and TrV 271, to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. The opera was premiered at Munich on 24 July 1938 and dedicated to Viorica Ursuleac and her husband Clemens Krauss, the lead and conductor respectively. Strauss had intended Friedenstag as part of a double-bill, to be conducted by Karl Böhm in Dresden, that would include as the second part his next collaboration with Gregor, Daphne. The opera thematically expresses a...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 15Ep. 22
SPECTRA 2 unveils the works of six composers, each of whom tells a unique, memorable story. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p736/Spectra_Volume_2_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhil...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 15Ep. 21
The Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104, was a work of long gestation completed by Jean Sibelius in 1923. Although the score does not contain a key attribution, the symphony is usually described as being in D minor; much of it is in fact in the (modern) Dorian mode. A typical performance lasts about 25 minutes. The composer called the work "cold spring water" in opposition to many contemporary "cocktails"—a reference to the modernist gestures in post-war music. The symphony was premiered by the H...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 15Ep. 20
John A. Carollo’s fourth release, and follow up to 2017’s THE TRANSFIGURATION of GIOVANNI BAUDINO, is a wondrous musical journey through the world of desire. With MUSIC FROM THE ETHEREAL SIDE OF PARADISE, Carollo makes an impassioned plea for the power of romance. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p733/Music_from_the_Ethereal_Side_of_Paradise_%28Digital_Download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries i...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 15Ep. 19
INTERFACES explores the different ways a computer can fit in a modern jazz ensemble and still be true to itself. Technology performer Jeff Morris is joined by free jazz icon Karl Berger on vibes and piano as well as innovative New York percussionist Joe Hertenstein. Morris takes sounds from his partners live in the moment and transforms them into his own musical voice with the DNA of acoustic sounds and the fingerprints of digital processing. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: ...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 15Ep. 18
Verdi's Rigoletto explained Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1045/Rigoletto_Explained.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSp...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 15Ep. 17
Sung in EnglishThe Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione) took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.cl...
Nov 29, 2020•2 hr 43 min•Season 15Ep. 14
40 classical selections for Halloween Produced by Kathryn Cavanaugh Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p726/Classical_Halloween_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CM...
Nov 29, 2020•3 hr 43 min•Season 15Ep. 13
In MEZZANINE SEAT, Cunningham exhibits a mastery over all aspects of the orchestra, filling out every bit of space with breathtaking melody and harmony. The arrangements emote a sophistication that echoes J.S. Bach, one of Cunningham’s greatest inspirations. In the three-part composition Bach Diadem, Cunningham pays tribute to the famed composer and incorporates 18th-century orchestral influence in his compositions. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 15Ep. 12
Composer and pianist Kenneth Kuhn, after finding the music he wanted to hear did not exist, strove to bring his own musical visions to life. The result, PIANO WORKS OF KENNETH KUHN, is a cathartic journey through the memories and imagination of the composer. Romantic in quality, thematic, memorable, and deeply moving, Kuhn’s latest work leaves listeners feeling enriched and enchanted. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p722/Piano_Works_by_K...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 15Ep. 11
LEGENDS & LIGHT, a compilation album featuring works by composers Hans Bakker, Jan Järvlepp, Clive Muncaster, and Shirley Mier. Each has a different, unique story to tell, and the narratives are brought to life by the orchestra and string ensemble. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p720/Legends_and_Light_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica Internatio...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 15Ep. 10
L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (The Tutor Embarrassed or The Tutor in a Jam) is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, after the 1807 play by Giovanni Giraud. At its premiere at the Teatro Valle, Rome, on 4 February 1824, it "was greeted with wild enthusiasm [and] it was with this opera that [...] Donizetti had his first really lasting success" During revisions planned for the 1826 production in Naples, Donizetti renamed the o...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 16Ep. 48
Georges Bizet composed L'Arlésienne as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as The Girl from Arles. It was first performed on 1 October 1872 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris. Bizet's music consists of 27 numbers (some only a few bars) for voice, chorus, and small orchestra, ranging from short solos to longer entr'actes. Bizet himself played the harmonium backstage at the premiere performance. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: htt...
Nov 29, 2020•57 min•Season 16Ep. 53
Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, and was given 18 performances in its initial run. Set in ancient times on the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the opera tells the story of how two men's vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman, whose own dilemma is the conflict between secula...
Nov 29, 2020•2 hr 12 min•Season 16Ep. 55
This entire contemporary classical compilation is enjoyable and well worth exploring. It’s evident that each piece was composed and played by a different artist, yet –somehow- a lovely tonality ties one track to the other. A lonely wisp of a note here, a counterpoint there and BAM you’re in the venue of amazing talent. Want a contemporary angle on classical music? Then, this is the collection. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1040/Felt.h...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 17Ep. 19
Tina Vivaldi is a wonderful example of our "Women in Classical Music Program." Tina was working as a checkout clerk in Naples when we were alerted to a girl that was a fabulous flutist, but due to her lack of formal music education, could not find a job doing what she loved best. After an audition, we were amazed as to how brilliantly she played the flute, and yet she never had any formal music training in her life. She was a 100% self-taught flutist. We put her through an intense orchestral and...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Season 15Ep. 51
Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1037/Suppe%3A_Boccaccio%2C_or_the_Prince_of_Palermo.html Your purc...
Nov 27, 2020•34 min•Season 16Ep. 84
Spartacus Soundtrack - reassembled/remastered Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1036/Spartacus_Soundtrack.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaC...
Nov 27, 2020•2 hr 21 min•Season 16Ep. 90
A loving tribute to my dad who passed on Jan. 26, 2020. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1035/A_Tribute_to_Richard_Hedgecock.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBe...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 16Ep. 91
Scored for 24 unaccompanied voices, Anonymous Man is an hour-long piece that expands on Michael Gordon’s inventive approach to composition, layering minimalistic swirls of vocal sound on top of one another to create a hypnotic incantation. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1034/Michael_Gordon_Anonymous_Man.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festiv...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 16Ep. 114
CHÉVERE richly explores and demonstrates the myriad cultural intersections that have recently become available to American and Cuban musicians. The album came together at a recording session that took place in Havana, Cuba in the month of January in 2017. The release presents a variety of collaborations between American, or American-based, composers and Cuban instrumentalists, arrangers, singers, and composers. Some of these connections are relatively straightforward, while others are more nuanc...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 17Ep. 18
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhacand Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences. Kathryn Cavanaugh - Producer/Conductor CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/st...
Nov 26, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Season 15Ep. 7
Tadlow Music is proud to announce the release of the classic film music event of the decade – a special collector’s edition of one of the greatest film scores of all time – Ben-Hur composed by Miklós Rózsa. The complete 157-minute score, including previously unreleased music, has been re-recorded in stunning and dynamic 24-Bit 96kHz digital sound, performed by the award-winning City of Prague Philharmonic, conducted by Nic Raine and produced by label founder James Fitzpatrick. Purchase the music...
Nov 26, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Season 14Ep. 12
Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts by Maurice Ravel described as a choreographic symphony. The story concerns the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p468/Ravel%3A_Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%A9.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDi...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 14Ep. 10
Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 Tantum ergo in D, K. 197 Sparrow Mass in C Major, K. 220 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p467/Mozart_-_Working_at_the_Webers.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonici...
Nov 26, 2020•49 min•Season 14Ep. 9
WARRIOR MONKS is a collection of two clarinet concerti and a trumpet concerto by Carl Vollrath that span topics of war, solace, fascination, and reverence among many others. “And Bugles Sang” drew inspiration from the unique juxtapositions in Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” and explores the many ways the trumpet is used as a symbol throughout human history. At times the trumpet is brash and lyrical, expressing ecstasy; in other instances it is strident and rhythmic perhaps reflecting charges in...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 14Ep. 8
