Ezra Donner’s operatic adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Ile, about a ship and crew at sea for two years searching for a full cargo of whale oil. The obsessed Captain Keeney, who puts down a mutiny (“I’m the law on this ship!”) by crewmen who want to turn the ship for home. As his wife, brought out the intense loneliness of a woman on a ship, hungry for the sound of a woman’s voice; she begged her husband to turn around or she’ll go mad. He promised to — and then reneged. She snapped, laughing craz...
Dec 03, 2020•30 min•Season 12Ep. 25
Dvorak: New World Symphony Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 8 Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1064/Yuri_Botnari.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 #CMDGermanOperaCompan...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 12Ep. 21
Iconic movies like Back to the Future, Goonies & St. Elmo's Fire have been celebrating their 30th anniversaries. 1985 AT THE MOVIES brings them all together for the film music event of the year. All 5 Academy Award scores for 1985 are here, as well as James Horner's Cocoon, Michael Kamen's Brazil, John Barry's A View To A Kill and more. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1063/1985_At_the_Movies.html Your purchase helps to support our s...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 12Ep. 20
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 Dohnanyi: Serenade in C Major, Op. 10 Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola, K. 424 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1062/La_Musica_Chamber_Music_Hour_31%2F64.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 #CMDGrandOperaComp...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 12Ep. 19
Music from our 2016 New Year show Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1061/2016_New_Year.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...
Dec 03, 2020•33 min•Season 12Ep. 17
David L. Post was born in New York City and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, and Brandeis University. He started musical training early, studying ‘cello with Samuel Reiner and Charles Forbes and composition with Charles Whittenberg and later with Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago. He pursued further study with Larry Bell and Lukas Foss. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1060/David_P...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 10Ep. 3
King of Kings is a 1961 American Biblical epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Nicholas Ray, the film is a dramatization of the story of Jesus of Nazareth from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection, with much dramatic license. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1059/Rozsa%3A_King_of_Kings.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveri...
Dec 02, 2020•56 min•Season 17Ep. 21
DSU Symphony Band Impressions Conducted by Gary Caldwell Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1058/DSU_Symphony_Band_Impressions.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...
Dec 02, 2020•55 min•Season 12Ep. 27
Works by American Composers Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1057/1209_American_Composers.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelo...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 12Ep. 9
To honor France See cover for titles Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1056/Debussy.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 02, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Halloween Spooktacular 2015 - Movie Monsters Southwest Symphony Orchestra Gary Caldwell, conductor Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1055/SWSO_Halloween_Spooktacular_2015_-_Movie_Monsters.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVe...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Show 1205 highlighting Matteo Antonio Manfredi Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1054/Matteo_Antonio_Manfredi.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 #CMDGrandOp...
Dec 02, 2020•38 min•Season 5Ep. 12
The Glory of Christmas by the Crystal Cathedral in Anaheim, CA. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1053/The_Glory_of_Christmas.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...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 12Ep. 14
The darling story of Fritz the Reindeer and how he and his elf-handler, Candy Cane, overcome personal insecurities and bullying, This original story is by Ken Hedgecock from an idea by Daniel Hedgcock. Music performances by members of the Hedgecock family. Actors are from the Hedgecock family. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1052/Fritz_the_Reindeer.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by...
Dec 01, 2020•39 min•Season 12Ep. 11
Sandy's Favorite Christmas Music 1
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 12Ep. 13
Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America. Purchase the music (without talk) for on...
Dec 01, 2020•57 min•Season 14Ep. 58
Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy-tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the "Abendsegen" ("Evening Benediction") from act 2. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who ...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Season 14Ep. 54
Royal Covent Garden Version by Handel Sir Neville Marriner Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Field Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p764/Handel%3A_Messiah.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 #C...
Dec 01, 2020•2 hr 31 min•Season 14Ep. 55
Over 100 of our favorite works by Handel. Includes a complete performance of "Messiah", "Water Music", "Royal Fireworks" and much more! Over 6 hours of Handel Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p762/Can_You_HANDEL_This%3F.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 #LaMusicaFe...
Dec 01, 2020•5 hr 30 min•Season 15Ep. 42
Each year, we acknowledge the work done and sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. On this date, our country remembers and reflects more than 75 years later on the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1048/Remembering_Pearl_Harbor_-_Personal_Witness_Accounts.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber M...
Dec 01, 2020•33 min•Season 14Ep. 56
The mission of New York City-based Phoenix Ensemble is resolute and clear: to bring diverse chamber music to diverse audiences. For this new release, clarinetist and artistic director Mark Lieb has chosen to contrast late Romanticism with modernity in two clarinet quintets that in some ways could not be more different, yet in other ways are surprisingly similar. Here, the expansive clarity of Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, op. 115 is set against the angular narratives of Elliott C...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 15Ep. 37
Swan Lake, Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and/or German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger. The ballet was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow...
Dec 01, 2020•2 hr 33 min•Season 15Ep. 36
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" Symphony No. 3 in D, Op. 29 "Polish" Sylvia Wagner CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p757/Tchaikovsky%3A_Symphonies_2_and_3_%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 #KeepClassi...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 15Ep. 35
As "early" musicians, the members of Les Délices have committed their professional lives to gaining an understanding of old music and instruments that inspire and excite them. However, while reading about or exploring scores from the 17th or 18th centuries may provide insight, it’s inevitable that those can offer only incomplete information. The three musicians who comprise Les Délices believe the space between what is known and what is unknown provides great opportunities for expansion and disc...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 15Ep. 34
Fatinitza was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé. The libretto by F. Zell (a pseudonym for Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée was based on the libretto to La circassienne by Eugène Scribe (which had been set to music by Daniel Auber in 1861), but with the lead role of Wladimir, a young Russian lieutenant who has to disguise himself as a woman, changed to a trousers role; in other words, a woman played the part of the man who pretended to be a woman. Purchase the music (w...
Nov 30, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Season 17Ep. 20
When composing the music for GENTLE WINDS, Skip Livingston had one overarching goal in mind: write music that people will enjoy playing and listening to. In GENTLE WINDS you’ll hear the rich effects that come with doing what one truly finds joy in. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p754/Gentle_Winds_-_Chamber_Music_of_Samuel_A._Livingston_%28Digital_Download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sp...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 15Ep. 32
Contemporary song cycles generally lead a marginal existence in the shadow of Schubert's perennial, towering example. Connecticut-native composer Scott Perkins nevertheless audaciously marches to the beat of his own drum on WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH, setting to music an awe-inducingly broad variety of poems across all ages and cultures. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p751/Whispers_of_Heavenly_Death_%28digital_download%29.html Your purc...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 15Ep. 31
Elizabeth Vercoe’s newest album BUTTERFLY EFFECTS AND OTHER WORKS begins with a quotation. The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi asked, "Am I a human who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams of being a human?" This sense of oneness and the paradoxical strength of the fragile butterfly permeates through the composer’s album, establishing themes translated through woodwind instruments, vocals, and piano. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classica...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 15Ep. 30
Choi has been a champion of contemporary composers throughout her career, and her debut album demonstrates this championship while also celebrating the many cultures and customs that make up American music. BOUNDLESS proves that there are no boundaries -- cultural, energetic, or dynamic. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p747/Boundless_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is spons...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 15Ep. 29
100 of our most requested pieces to broadcast. All works were request by our Happy Listeners over our past 14 years. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p745/100_Most_Requested_Works_for_Christmas.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompa...
Nov 30, 2020•6 hr 12 min•Season 15Ep. 28
