Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1093/Wagner%3A_Die_Walkure_%28The_Valkyrie...
Dec 07, 2020•4 hr 11 min•Season 13Ep. 16
13 of Sandy's favorites Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1091/Sandy%27s_Favorite_Christmas_Music_2.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompany...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr•Season 13Ep. 15
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1092/New_Year_2017.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #Cla...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 13Ep. 14
15 of Sandy's favorites I Saw Three Ships I'll Be Home For Christmas Somewhere In My Memory The Innkeeper (Let Him In) When Christmas Comes to Town Shepherd's Pipe Carol The Secret of Christmas Candlelight Carol and more! Downloads include individual tracks and Zip file Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1051/Sandy%27s_Favorite_Christmas_Music_1.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Mu...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 13Ep. 13
The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachts-Oratorium), BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a largely lost church cantata, BWV 248a. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript. The next performance was not until 17 December 1857 by the Sing-Akademie ...
Dec 06, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Season 13Ep. 12
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and m...
Dec 06, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Season 13Ep. 11
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1088/Wagner%3A_Das_Rheingold.html ...
Dec 06, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Season 13Ep. 10
Brahms-Academic Festival Overture Rachmaninov-Adagio from 2nd Symphony Rimsky-Korsakov-Scheherazade Finale Schubert-Unfinished 1st Movement Grieg-Morning from Peer Gynt Sibelius Finlandia Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1087/SWSO_Distant_Replay.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClas...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 13Ep. 9
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Beethoven - String Quartet No 11 in F minor Schubert - Piano Quintet in A Major D667 - Trout Quintet Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1086/La_Musica_39.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenic...
Dec 06, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 13Ep. 8
Scheherazade, Danse Macabre, Phantom and more. Southwest Symphony Orchestra Lucas Darger, conductor Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1085/SWSO%3A_Opus_Pocus.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 #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOr...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. It is part of the Knight of the Swan tradition. The opera has inspired other works of art. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his fairy-tale castle "New S...
Dec 05, 2020•3 hr 57 min•Season 13Ep. 6
Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties (Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830. Franz Liszt made a piano transcription of the symphony in 1833. Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition in...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 5
Pianist Gayle Martin achieved international prominence as the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. The Washington Post called her performance “a tour de force” and praised her artistry for its “intense passion and deep-seated emotional response to the music.” The Woodstock Times cited her recital as one “which, if recorded on 78’s, could have fooled the average pianophile into thinking he or she was listening to one of the greats of the past....
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 13Ep. 4
Tannhäuser full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, ("Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's works) based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the mythologized medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. The story centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through m...
Dec 05, 2020•3 hr 14 min•Season 13Ep. 1
Music saves one note at a time, says Kaviani. Not by ending wars but by waging them in the name of beauty, nobility, and humanity against all that lies to, numbs, or crushes the human spirit. It saves not by eliminating hunger but by creating more appetite for enlightenment, transcendence and human civilization. Kavianis Te Deum, performed by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Janácek Opera Choir, conducted by Petr Vronský, is a secular work which uses the original Latin text of the Chr...
Dec 05, 2020•37 min•Season 12Ep. 57
4 hours of fun non-classical music for newspaper carriers Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1081/_Music_to_Deliver_Newspapers_By.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 #CMDGermanOperaCompanyo...
Dec 05, 2020•4 hr 10 min•Season 12Ep. 1
The Flying Dutchman (German: Der fliegende Holländer), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater in Dresden in 1843. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1080/Wagner%3A_The_Flying_Dutchman_%28Der_fliegende_Holl%C3%A4nder%29%2C_WWV_63.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discov...
Dec 05, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Season 12Ep. 53
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Königliches Hoftheater, Dresden, on 20 October 1842, and was the composer's first success. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www....
Dec 04, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Season 12Ep. 49
Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. Of the three Theban plays Antigone is the third in order of the events depicted in the plays, but it is the first that was written. The play expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1078/Antigone.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is spons...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 12Ep. 48
Haydn: Piano Trio in G minor Beethoven: Serenade in D Major Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1077/La_Musica_37.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 #CMDGer...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 12Ep. 47
After a successful 20-year career in Hollywood as a composer and music editor, Shie Rozow decided to produce an album of chamber music that wasn’t tied to another person’s creativity, namely a film or TV show. Working at what appears to have been top speed, he produced five works for varying instrumental groups, including solo music, a genre which he tells us he is particularly attracted to. Where the lush orchestration of movie music can mask many deficiencies, Rozow says, he was challenged by ...
Dec 04, 2020•56 min•Season 12Ep. 46
Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love, WWV 38), is an early comic opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Described as a Große komische Oper, it was composed in early 1836. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1075/_Wagner%3A_Das_Liebesverbot_%28The_Ban_on_Love%2C_WWV_38%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La M...
Dec 04, 2020•2 hr 50 min•Season 12Ep. 44
Award of Excellence in the category Instrumental Performance Solo at the Global Music Awards, Los Angeles, U.S.A Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1074/Rita_D%27Arcangelo_-_Saluti_d%27Amour.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyof...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr•Season 12Ep. 42
Can You Read My Mind Close Encounters Duel of the Fates Home Alone Jurassic Park Lost in Space 1941 March Raiders Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1073/John_Williams_Tribute.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 #CMDPari...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 58 min•Season 12Ep. 41
1240 Yuri Botnari All Tchaikovsky Concert Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1072/Yuri_Botnari_All_Tchaikovsky_Concert.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 #CM...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 12Ep. 40
Die Feen (The Fairies) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente. Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, but remained unperformed in his lifetime. It has never established itself firmly in the operatic repertory although it receives occasional performances, on stage or in concert, most often in Germany. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1071/Wag...
Dec 03, 2020•3 hr 10 min•Season 12Ep. 39
Pops Concert Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1070/SWSO_A_Treasure_Chest_of_Pops.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 12Ep. 37
Adam Costello Sabrena Scheffel Rachel Kaneversky Teague Lawrence Aubrey Aikele Audrey Godfrey Aly Candland Abigail Clark Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1068/SWSO_A_Salute_to_Youth.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 ...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 12Ep. 32
Southwest Symphony Orchestra Gary Caldwell, conductor Dr. Lynn Vartan, percussion Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1067/SWSO_Centennial_Celebrations_-_Canyon_Concerto.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 #CMDParisPhilha...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 12Ep. 29
On her release PERSONAE, pianist Beth Levin presents works from Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Anders Eliasson (1947-2013), and Robert Schumann (1810-1856) that highlight each composer’s unique voice and style. Praised by Jeremy Eichler of the New York Times for her “boldly inflected readings and impressive ability to convey emotion without exhibition,” Levin animates the personalities of each composer with aplomb, passion, and elegance. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 12Ep. 28
