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) at:Wagner: Das Rheingold (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Clas...
Jan 02, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Season 18Ep. 67
An ode to joy. André Rieu is delighted to present his new studio album “Happy Together” (CD & DVD). “Happy Together” is a wonderful and emotional “ode to joy”, celebrating the return to life, happiness, and love – a musical reminder of the joy of being together with friends and family – now that the world is opening up once more. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Happy Together (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Mu...
Dec 31, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 18Ep. 62
Stephan Moccio is widely recognized and respected amongst the top stars of the music industry for his outstanding musicianship. He has appeared on the albums of some of the industry's best and brightest, including Celine Dione, Sarah Brightman, and Olivia Newton-John. Stephan's wide talents include everything from arranging and conducting classical music to songwriting and composing for television and films. His deep understanding of both classical and contemporary styles has allowed him to merg...
Dec 28, 2021•2 hr 22 min•Season 18Ep. 80
Jake Heggie is an American composer of opera, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. He is best known for his operas and art songs as well as for his collaborations with internationally renowned performers and writers.Heggie's 2016 operatic adaptation of the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera with a libretto by Gene Scheer. Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's story "The Greatest Gift" and made famous by the 1946 Frank Capra film, the opera follows the journey of...
Dec 26, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Season 18Ep. 76
Each year we are asked to repost Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol." Even though broadcasts from previous seasons are still online, we are pleased to repost the broadcast. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Dickens: A Christmas Carol (classicalsavings.com)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 #CMDGrandOperaComp...
Dec 23, 2021•3 hr 25 min•Season 18Ep. 78
Almost 2-1/2 hours of our favorite Christmas music. Purchase the music (without talk) at:CMD's Christmas Program 2021 (music only) (classicalsavings.com)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#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpa...
Dec 22, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Season 18Ep. 40
The Vienna Boys' Choir is a choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the best-known boys' choirs in the world. The boys are selected mainly from Austria, but also from many other countries. Tracklist:Day-dah Light (Banana Boat Song)Yradier: La PalomaDona DonaThe ChoirPurcell: Music for a While (Arr. Gerald Wirth for Choir, Cello and Organ)Music Down In My SoulVem Kan Segla Förutan VindDorogoi DlinnoyuO La, O Che Bon EcchoLa speranzaNiška BanjaSesivuma SigiyaDreaming...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 18Ep. 74
Tracklisting I. St. Mark's Square: This jubilant 6/8 movement is in the style of the great Venetian master, Vivaldi. It expresses the mood of the great gathering center of the island. II. Bridge of Sighs: This slow movement is evoking the walk across the Bridge of Sighs. The bridge was the last place a prisoner would see daylight before going to the dungeons. The slow steady rhythm of the guitar are the steps of the prisoner where the strings are the sound of the heaviness of their heart. III: C...
Dec 21, 2021•14 min•Season 18Ep. 79
The opera was composed between February and April 1885 at Maidanovo. Both Vakula the Smith and Cherevichki were set to Polonsky's libretto, which was originally intended for Alexander Serov but had remained unused on account of his death. Additions and revisions for this second version were made by the composer and Nikolay Chayev. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Tchaikovsky: The Little Shoes (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponso...
Dec 19, 2021•3 hr 3 min•Season 18Ep. 39
In late 2020, Deutsche Grammophon invited some of the label's composers to reimagine holiday music. The result was 12 personal responses to that creative challenge, all of which have something fresh and timely to say about winter's promise of renewal and light's power over darkness. Featuring Roger & Brian Eno, Peter Gregson, V¡kingur Olafsson, Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher, Balmorhea, Mari Samuelsen, Ane Brun, Dustin O'Halloran & Bryan Senti, ABBOTT, Vanbur, Classical Sundays and Joe...
Dec 17, 2021•46 min•Season 18Ep. 53
Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata Op.19, one of the great landmarks of late Romantic music, has found its ideal interpreters in Yuja Wang and Gautier Capuçon. Their new recording of the work for Deutsche Grammophon projects a partnership of equals fully immersed in the music’s turbulent emotions and striking expressive contrasts. Released digitally on 19 November 2021, it will also form part of a full album from Wang, Capuçon, and clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer to follow next October, on which it will...
Dec 16, 2021•38 min•Season 18Ep. 61
Rare works by Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - 1st recording of Tchaikovsky's initial version of this work completed in 1869Serenade for Nikolai Rubenstein's Saint's Day - 1st recordingFestival Overture on the Danish National Anthem, Op. 15 - 1st recordingThe Battle of Poltava Symphonic TableauCossack Dance Gopak from Mazeppa - 1st recording as a concert pairIncidental Music to Shakespeare's Hamlet, Op. 67 - 1st complete recordingOphelia - Janis Kelly, sopranoGravedigger - Derek H...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 18Ep. 30
stem-flower-root was commissioned by Wooley and premiered by him on the closing night of the inaugural For/With Festival in 2017 at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room. Only Pisaro’s second piece for solo trumpet, the piece is one of the first compositions from the For/With series, a group of pieces Wooley commissioned from artists that normally wouldn’t write for brass or for solo trumpet. Purchase this album and accompany Chapbook at: Michael Pisaro: stem-flower-root | Pleasure Of The Text Records (...
Dec 14, 2021•35 min•Season 18Ep. 30
Cecilia Bartoli’s album Unreleased, featuring virtuosic concert arias from Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Mysliveček, will be released on 19 November 2021. These notoriously demanding pieces were written by the greatest composers of the classical era for the leading sopranos of their day. The music was recorded in 2013 with the Kammerorchester Basel under Muhai Tang and violinist Maxim Vengerov is featured on the Mozart arias L’Amerò Sarò Costante and Ch’io Mi Scordi Di Te? The tracklist for Unrel...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 18Ep. 60
Stephan Moccio is a Grammy and Academy Award-nominated composer, producer, pianist, arranger, conductor, and recording artist. He co-wrote and co-produced the two end credit songs for Fifty Shades of Grey and its soundtrack: "Earned It" and "I Know You". He co-wrote Celine Dion's hit "A New Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and held the number one spot on the Billboard AC Chart for a record-breaking 21 weeks. He also co-wrote Miley Cyrus' single "Wrecking Ball" from her 2013 studio alb...
Dec 13, 2021•58 min•Season 18Ep. 50
La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco. Fanciulla followed Madama Butterfly, which was also based on a Belasco play. The opera has fewer of the show-stopping highlights that characterize Puccini's other works but is admired for its impressive orchestration and for a score that is more melodically ...
Dec 12, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 18Ep. 28
Mozart, Odermatt: Oboe Concerto in F Major (After K. 293) - I. AllegroMozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Arr. Spindler for English Horn, Strings and Organ)Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299/297c - I. Allegro (Arr. Spindler for Oboe, Harpsichord and Orchestra)Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299 - II. Andantino (Arr. Spindler for Oboe, Harpsichord and Orchestra)Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299/297c - III. Rondeau. Allegro (Arr. Spindler for Oboe, Harpsichord and Orchestra)Mozart: Ah...
Dec 11, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 18Ep. 48
Following years of releasing elaborate music videos of holiday carols on his popular YouTube channel, Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem releases All I Want, an EP of five classic Christmas ballads on December 10 with Crossover Records. Carols include All I Want for Christmas, This Christmas, Adeste Fideles "O Come, All Ye Faithful,” and Carol of the Bells, each arranged for a cappella voices by Meachem and featuring him singing all of the multi-layered parts. Purchase the music (withou...
Dec 10, 2021•16 min•Season 18Ep. 66
In the Bleak Midwinter reflects a Christmas that was unlike any other in recent history. Much of the music on this album was heard around the world as part of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a service that has been broadcast live from King's on Christmas Eve every year since 1930. Purchase the music (without talk) at:In the Bleak Midwinter (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Fest...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 18Ep. 56
Symphony No. 66 in B♭ major (1775–1776?)Symphony No. 67 in F major (by 1779)Symphony No. 68 in B♭ major (by 1779)Symphony No. 69 in C major, Laudon (by 1779)Symphony No. 70 in D major (by 1779)Sylvia Wager, conductorCMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase the music (without talk) at:Haydn: Symphonies 66 - 70 (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalM...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Season 18Ep. 27
Chad Lawson is an American pianist and composer. After performing as a member of the Summit Records act Chad Lawson Trio from 1997 to 2004, Lawson performed as a member of Julio Iglesias' tour band, which inspired him to release his debut studio album Set on a Hill. Lawson's fifth studio album The Chopin Variations, a collaboration with violinist Judy Kang and cellist Rubin Kodheli, reached number one on the Billboard Top Classical Albums chart. He debuted as a major label musician through Decca...
Dec 07, 2021•17 min•Season 18Ep. 55
01 - Carol of the Bells02 - Underneath the Tree03 - All I Want for Christmas is You04 - Christmas Lights05 - Santa Tell Me06 - Last Christmas07 - Christmas in Harlem08 - Make it to Christmas09 - Snowman10 - Thank God it's Christmas11 - Mistletoe12 - Fairytale of New York13 - Christmas Star
Dec 06, 2021•49 min•Season 18Ep. 51
Iphigénie en Tauride is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard.With Iphigénie, Gluck took his operatic reform to its logical conclusion. The recitatives are shorter and they are récitatif accompagné (i.e. the strings and perhaps other instruments are playing, not just continuo accompaniment). The normal dance movements that one finds in the French tragédie en musique are almost ent...
Dec 05, 2021•1 hr 52 min•Season 18Ep. 24
Elīna Garanča,Wiener Philharmoniker,Christian ThielemannWagner: Wesendonck-Lieder /Mahler: Rückert-Lieder(Live from Salzburg) Purchase the music (without talk) at:Live from Salzburg - Wagner and Mahler Lieder (classicalsavings.com)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 #CMDParisPhilharm...
Dec 04, 2021•46 min•Season 18Ep. 68
Dove Award-Winning pianist Paul Cardall takes listeners on a journey from the rise of a new moon in September through the New Year. Paul said, "These introspective, tender, piano compositions have a minimal style of music reflecting the growing pains of a beautifully complex world. I'm alive because beating in my chest is the heart of a deceased man, thanks to organ donation. I understand that life is filled with irony, misconceptions, confusion, and yet darkness can't exist in the light. Our mo...
Dec 03, 2021•52 min•Season 18Ep. 41
The Poor Clare Sisters number over 20,000 sisters throughout the world in 16 federations and in over 70 countries. Most monasteries have from four to thirteen members. Some have larger communities but the Poor Clare charism is one of family and St. Clare guided us that small communities were much better to keep this family spirit than larger ones.The Nuns of Poor Clares of Arundel brings us a Winter Meditation Mix.This music, like modern Gregorian Chant, will definitely relax you to sleep with h...
Dec 02, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Season 18Ep. 49
This is a 2-album out-of-print set. Giselle originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis, is a romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France on 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. The ballet was an unqualified triumph. Giselle became hugely popular and was staged at once across...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 18Ep. 25
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1994, to German-Korean parents, she started piano at age four. Only three years later, she became a student of professor Irina Edelstein. Since 2009, Gina Alice has been studying piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, as a junior student of Lev Natochenny's master class. Since 2012, she has been a student of Bernhard Wetz at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Tracklist:01. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen02. No. 4 in D M...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 18Ep. 57
Dark Spring combines American popular song tradition with the musical and theatrical avant-garde to form Thomalla’s eclectic take on contemporary opera. The work centers on four young people under extreme pressure to achieve success, which strains against their internal powerlessness and eventually erupts into violence. The opera focuses on their attempt to understand feelings of meaninglessness and alienation. The Darmstädter Echo praisedthe production’s combination of “stunning sonorous beauty...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 18Ep. 37
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history—the creation of the atomic bomb. This gripping opera presents the human face of the scientists, military men, and others who were involved in the project, as they wrestled with the implications of their work. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Adams: Doctor Atomic (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries i...
Nov 28, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Season 18Ep. 22
