La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavi ngs.com/store/p1325/Puccini%3A_La_Rondine.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica I...
May 07, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 118
Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4). Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/s...
May 05, 2021•3 hr 3 min•Season 17Ep. 117
Un mari à la porte (A Husband at the Door) is an opérette in one act of 1859 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Alfred Delacour (Alfred Charlemagne Lartigue) and Léon Morand. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1322/Offenbach%3A_A_Husband_at_the_Door.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveri...
Apr 28, 2021•56 min•Season 17Ep. 116
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 417 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B Major, Op. 485 Sylvia Wagner, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1321/Schubert%3A_Symphonies_4_and_5.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 #CMDGran...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 17Ep. 115
Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based on the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet Giselle. The opera, in its original one-act version, was first performed at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, on 31 May 1884. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.clas...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 17Ep. 114
The Wooden Prince, Op. 13, Sz. 60, is a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók in 1914–1916 (orchestrated 1916–1917) to a scenario by Béla Balázs. It was first performed at the Budapest Opera on 12 May 1917 under the conductor Egisto Tango. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1319/Bartok%3A_The_Wooden_Prince%2C_Op._13.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music F...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 113
The program will echo the album’s experiential journey, a compilation of 10 of Wollschleger’s deeply personal works composed between 2007-2020, tracing the evolution of Wollschleger’s synesthetic compositional style. Larson, Wollschleger’s close friend and frequent collaborator, will give listeners a glimpse into the intimate depths of the composer’s working process and the utilization of his rare synesthesia through the tactile use of the piano. Described by Pitchfork as “marvelous” and “powerf...
Apr 23, 2021•53 min•Season 17Ep. 105
Composer Scott Wollschleger and pianist Karl Larson release Dark Days, an album featuring 10 of Wollschleger’s deeply personal works for solo piano. These introspective pieces, performed here by his close friend and frequent collaborator, give listeners a glimpse into the intimate depths of Wollschleger’s working process and the utilization of his rare synesthesia through the tactile use of the piano. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1268/Dark_Days.htm...
Apr 23, 2021•54 min•Season 17Ep. 65
Symphony No. 56 in C major (by 1774) Symphony No. 57 in D major (1774) Symphony No. 58 in F major (between 1767 and 1774) Symphony No. 59 in A major, Feuer (by 1769) Symphony No. 60 in C major, Il distratto (by 1775, probably 1774) Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1317/Haydn%3A_Symphonies_56_-_60.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 17Ep. 111
We pay tribute to La Musica's Associate Director, friend, and pianist - Derek Han. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat Major, K. 450 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 All selections are performed by Derek Han Those wishing to make a contribution to La Musica in Derek’s memory may do so online by visiting LaMusicFestival.org; by phone at 941-366-8450 Ext. 7; or La Musica, P.O. Box 5442, Sarasota, FL 34277.
Apr 17, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 17Ep. 110
Trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley releases Mutual Aid Music, a double-CD of eight ensemble concertos. Mutual aid points to the concept of community action and the human drive to provide succor to our fellow humans. Mutual aid is the primary ethic of an anarchistic utopia in which each knows what they have, is honest about what they need, and is prepared to give and receive accordingly. Every human want is met by a commensurate surplus and all are lifted equally above suffering. Wooley’s Mutual ...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 17Ep. 59
La nonne sanglante (The Bloody Nun), is a five-act Gothic Horror opera by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne. Written between 1852 and 1854, it was first produced on 18 October 1854 at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opéra. It received 11 performances between October and November 1854. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1312/Gounod%3A_La_nonne_sanglante.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Disc...
Apr 13, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 17Ep. 108
Respighi: Poema autunnale, P. 146 Respighi: Suite della tabacchiera, P. 168 Respighi: Gosdemlan, P. 13 Respighi: Waltz in C-sharp minor, P. 37 Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor, P. 110 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1311/La_Musica_Chamber_Music_Hour_79.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassical...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 17Ep. 107
The long-anticipated follow-up to Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century, which won The Crossing its first GRAMMY award in 2018, the 12-movement A Native Hill was premiered by the ensemble in October 2019 at their home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia. Wendell Berry’s text, from his 1968 essay of the same title, offers meditations on how life is, and can be, experienced, through detailed descriptions of the minutiae of rural existence, where simple natural events reveal themsel...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 17Ep. 78
The most expensive production in our 17-year history. This rarely performed work is performed by 343 musicians! Belkis, Regina di Saba (Complete ballet) for large orchestra, mezzo-soprano, narrator, and five-part choir. Purchase the music (without talk, however with Respighi's narratives) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1309/Respighi%3A_Belkis%2C_regina_di_Saba.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Mus...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 17Ep. 106
Symphony No. 51 in B♭ major (1773/1774) Symphony No. 52 in C minor (1771/1772) Symphony No. 53 in D major, L'impériale (1778)/(1779) Symphony No. 54 in G major (1774) Symphony No. 55 in E♭ major, The Schoolmaster (by 1774) Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1308/Haydn%3A_Symphonies_51_-_55.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #Classic...
Apr 02, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Season 17Ep. 104
Restored from an out-of-print Melodiya master recording. The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Its French libretto was based on the Italian play L'amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi. The opera premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 December 1921. The original Italian and French titles actually mean The Love of the Three Oranges, which makes the word for in the English version of the title a slight corruption or mistranslation...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 17Ep. 103
Tre pezzi, P. 92 Aria in G minor, P. 32 Preludio in D minor, P. 56 Elevazione Five Preludes Andante in D minor Preludio, P. 105a Suite in G Major, P. 58 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1306/Respighi%3A_Organ_Works.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 #CMDGrandOpe...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 17Ep. 102
Symphonic Variations, P. 28 Suite in E Major, P. 51 Sinfonia drammatica, P. 102 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1305/Respighi%3A_Large_Orchestral_Works.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 #CMDGermanOpe...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 17Ep. 101
The opera La campana sommersa (The Sunken Bell) is Respighi's operatic masterpiece. A symbolist drama on a supernatural theme, it is steeped in beauty, mystery and foreboding, and orchestrated with the Romantic opulence familiar from his sumptuous trilogy of Roman tone poems. Its triumph at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1928 was repeated at La Scala, Milan, and this most recent production at the CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain, world-renowned for its staging of rarities, was hail...
Mar 30, 2021•2 hr 29 min•Season 17Ep. 100
Respighi: Violin Concerto in A minor, P. 75 Respighi: Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Piano, P. 133 Respighi: Concerto in modo misolidio for Piano and Orchestra, P. 145 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Dominique Beaulieu - violin Simone Botticelli - cello Sylvia Keller - piano Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1302/La_Musica_International_Chamber_Music_Festival_78.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical...
Mar 27, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 17Ep. 99
Lauda per la nativita del Signore, P. 166 La primavera, P. 136 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1301/Respighi%3A_Choral_Works.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 #CMDGrand...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 17Ep. 98
6 Pezzi per bambini, P. 149 Piano Sonata in F minor, P. 16 Piano Suite, P. 43 Toccata in D Dorian, P. 105B Andante in F Major, P. 6 Andante in E Major, P. 6A Andante in D Major, P. 7 6 Pezzi, P. 44 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1300/Respighi%3A_Piano_Works.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClass...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 17Ep. 97
Ouverture carnevalesca, P. 99 Metamorphoseon modi XII, P. 169 Impressioni brasiliane, P. 153 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1299/Respighi%3A_Tre_opere.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 #CMDGermanOpe...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 17Ep. 96
Huntingtower, P. 173 Burlesca, P. 59 Preludio, corale e fuga, P. 30 Rossiniana, P. 148 Ballata delle gnomidi in A Major, P. 124 Belkis, regina di Saba, Suite 1, P. 177 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1298/Respighi%3A_Short_Works.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 #LaMusicaFestiv...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 17Ep. 95
Legend for Violin and Orchestra, P. 36 Featuring Dominique Beaulieu, violin In the Evening for 2 Oboes and Strings, P. 48 Featuring Erika Tuft and Louise Delmar, oboes Aria for Strings, P. 32 The Birds, P. 154 Serenata, P. 54 Trittico botticelliano, P. 151 Suite in G Major for Strings and Organ, P. 58 Featuring Sylvia Keller, organ Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1297/Respighi%3A_Works_for_Small_Orchestra.html Your purchase helps to support our show! ...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 17Ep. 94
Marie Victoire (1912–1914, première 2004) is a French-language opera in four acts by the composer Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Edmond Guiraud (1879–1961) based on his French-language play of the same name, set in the French Revolution. This opera was composed between 1912 and 1914 but, in spite of various plans, was not performed during the life of Respighi, due to the outbreak of World War I but also to the hostility towards the work of the wife of the composer, Elsa. Conducted by Sylvia ...
Mar 22, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Season 17Ep. 93
Respighi: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, P. 53 Evelyn Crowe - violin Josephine Buice - violin Sao Gao - viola Zelphia Fields - cello Respighi: 6 Pieces for Violin and Piano, P. 31 Evelyn Crowe - violin Sylvia Keller - piano Respighi: 3 Preludes on Gregorian Chants, P. 131 Sylvia Keller - piano Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1295/La_Musica_International_Chamber_Music_Festival_77.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveri...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 17Ep. 92
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ottorino Respighi Prelude and Fugue in D major (BWV 532), P. 158 Prelude Fugue Passacaglia in C minor (BWV 582), P. 159 Passacaglia Fugue Tre Corali (Three Chorales), P. 167 1. After 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', BWV 659 2. After 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren', BWV 648 3. After 'Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 Sergei Rachmaninov, Ottorino Respighi Cinq Études-Tableaux, P. 160 1. La mer et les mouettes, Op. 39 No. 2 2. La foire, Op. 33 No. 4 3. Marche funèbre, O...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 17Ep. 91
6 Lyrics, Series 1, P. 90 6 Lyrics, Series 2, P. 97 6 Melodies, P. 89 4 Lyrics, P. 125 Gloria Martinez, mezzo-soprano Joana Filipe Martinez, piano/producer Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1293/Respighi%3A_22_Songs.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 #CMDGrandOpe...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 17Ep. 90
