Rachmaninoff composed the concerto in the peaceful setting of his family's country estate, Ivanovka, completing it on September 23, 1909. Contemporary with this work are his First Piano Sonata and his tone poem The Isle of the Dead. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p425/Rachmaninoff%3A_Piano_Concerto_No._3_in_D_minor%2C_Op._30.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica Internationa...
Dec 12, 2020•48 min•Season 13Ep. 43
Rising w/ The Crossing Track List 1. David Lang (b. 1957) – protect yourself from infection (2019) [5:30] 2. Joby Talbot (b. 1971) – Lost Forever (2000) [3:46] 3. Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) – Translation (2016) [4:25] 4. Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) – IV. Ad latus from Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75 (1680) [8:10] 5. Paul Fowler (b. 1978) – First Pink (2016) [3:54] 6. David Lang – I. our land with peace from the national anthems (2014) [5:17] 7. Alex Berko (b. 1995) – Lincoln (2018) [5:45] 8. Dav...
Dec 12, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 17Ep. 25
Joana Filipe Martinez performs the world's most difficult piano sonatas. 1. Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8 2. Beethoven: Hammerklavier 3. Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor 4. Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p422/The_World%27s_Most_Difficult_Piano_Sonatas.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedg...
Dec 12, 2020•2 hr 3 min•Season 13Ep. 42
24 selections of music for Young Ears Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1111/Music_for_Young_Ears.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyof...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Season 17Ep. 24
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14 and subtitled “To October,” for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927. After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow later in 1927 under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev. It was also the first time any version of the work...
Dec 11, 2020•58 min•Season 13Ep. 41
Another landmark recording under the baton of Kenneth Hedgecock, the greatest and yet, the almost completely unknown conductor of Gustav Mahler. Hear Symphony No. 5 in its truest form with absolutely NO apologies for having too much brass in the symphony. You may have heard Mahler's 5th Symphony before, but never like this! Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p412/Mahler%3A_Symphony_No._5.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classic...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 13Ep. 40
Mahler first envisioned Symphony No, 3 as a massive symphony devoted to God and how He is looked upon by the different kingdoms on earth (animals, nature, man, etc.). The work became so massive that he created 2 symphonies from it. Here we recreate Mahler's original intent with a single symphony divided into 3 parts. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1110/Mahler%3A_Symphonies_3_and_4.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical...
Dec 11, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Season 13Ep. 39
Symphony No 31 in D - Horn Signal Symphony No 32 in C Symphony No 33 in C Symphony No 34 in D minor Symphony No 35 in B-flat Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1109/Haydn_Symphonies_31_-_35.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofV...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Season 17Ep. 23
In our 45th edition of La Musica Chamber Music Hour, we will be pleased to hear: String Trio in B-flat Major by Franz Schubert String Quintet in A Major by Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio in G minor by Smetana Musicians are: Federico Agostini and Cecilia Ziano - violins Hsin-Yun Huang, Bruno Giuranna - violas JeongHyoun Lee, Antonio Meneses - cellos Derek Han - piano This concert was recorded live on April 9, 2017. We wish to thank the staff and musicians from La Musica International Chamber Music ...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 13Ep. 37
Kurt Bestor (born 1958) is an American keyboardist and composer specializing in new-age, film scores, and jazz. He is known for his instrumental Christmas arrangements. His best-known songs are "Prayer of the Children", "Mama Don't You Weep". He is also known for composing music for the 1993 movie Rigoletto, and for writing music for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic games, as well as various official The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints videos. A longtime Utah resident, Bestor plays co...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Season 13Ep. 37
Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by German composer Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail (12th century). Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1107/Wagner%3A_Parsifal%2C_WWV_111.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Ch...
Dec 10, 2020•4 hr 33 min•Season 13Ep. 36
The greatest event for all mankind is yet to happen. That event will be the resurrection of the dead. Every human being, that has ever lived, will have their eternal spirit united with an eternal and perfected body, never to be parted again. The righteous will be resurrected first with the unrighteous being resurrected lastly after the millennium. The 2nd symphony, or the Resurrection Symphony, of Gustav Mahler envisions man’s death, remembrance of his life and questioning if there is life after...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 13Ep. 35
Keyboard Quartet in G Major, WB 66 by Johann Christian Bach Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat Major, K. 563 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 23 by Antonin Dvorak Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p381/La_Musica_International_Chamber_Music_Festival_%2344.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock ...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 13Ep. 34
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg), WWV 96, is a music drama (or opera) in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas commonly performed, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was first performed at the National Theatre Munich, today the home of the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich, on 21 June 1868. The conductor at the premiere was Hans von Bülow. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classi...
Dec 09, 2020•4 hr 30 min•Season 13Ep. 33
Boston (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p373/Boston_%28Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack%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 #CMDGermanOperaCompany...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 13Ep. 32
A Shine On Your Shoes Goldfinger Piel Canela Small World Caravan Baby It’s Cold Outside Big Spender What Kind of Fool Am I So in Love Orange Colored Sky Don’t Explain A Foggy Day Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p370/Monica_Chapman_-_Small_World.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...
Dec 09, 2020•54 min•Season 13Ep. 31
Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio in D minor, No. 1, Op. 49 Webern’s “Langsamer Satz for String Quartet” Richard Strauss’ “Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13” Musicians are: Federico Agostini, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han, Claudio Cruz, Cecilia Ziano, JeongHyoun Lee and Bruno Giuranna Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p365/La_Musica_Chamber_Music_Hour_43.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Music...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 13Ep. 30
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 - Britanee Dalton Stamitz: Viola Concerto in D Major - Elly Winder Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op' 33 - 1. Allegro non troppo - Abby Harris Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 - 1. Moderato-Allegro - Sarah Sun vPurchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1105/SWSO_Youth_Concerto_Classic.html Your pur...
Dec 08, 2020•58 min•Season 13Ep. 29
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Wagner referred to the work not as an opera, but called it "eine Handlung" (literally a drama, a plot or an action). Purchase the music ...
Dec 08, 2020•4 hr 12 min•Season 13Ep. 28
Performed by Rita D'Arcangelo Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1103/Vivaldi%3A_Il_Pastor_Fido.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBar...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 13Ep. 27
The words of many different languages become one... Singing about peace, love and joy, Wiltrud Weber takes you on a journey through different languages and emotions...bridging classical, jazz and world beats in a unique way. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1102/Global_Acoustic_Project.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedge...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 13Ep. 26
Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 39 Brahms - String Quartet in G Major, Op. 111 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1101/La_Musica_42.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 #CMDGermanOp...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 13Ep. 25
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1100/Wagner%3A_G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung_%28Twilight_of_the_Gods%29%2C_WWV_86D.html Your ...
Dec 08, 2020•4 hr 49 min•Season 13Ep. 24
Commenting about his 1996 Oscar-nominated score for Nixon, John Williams said, "People may say that the best film music is that which is not noticed because it is so seamlessly a part of what you see and hear. Certainly, that's largely the way the audience responds as they look and listen, perhaps, to dialogue (superimposed over the music). But there are some areas in the screenplay where the music is more in the open, as it were - when there is a better chance of the audience being consciously ...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 13Ep. 22
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Symphony No. 5 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p341/Yuri_Botnari_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 ...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 13Ep. 22
Mozart Duo for Violin and Viola Brahms Concerto for Violin French Horn and Piano Mendelssohn String Quintet in B-flat Major Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1098/La_Musica_41.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 #CMDPar...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 13Ep. 21
Siegfried, WWV 86C, is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1097/Wagner%3A_Siegfried.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International C...
Dec 07, 2020•4 hr 15 min•Season 13Ep. 20
The Symphony No. 1 in F minor (Opus 10) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1924–1925, and first performed in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926. Shostakovich wrote the work as his graduation piece at the Petrograd Conservatory, completing it at the age of 19. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1096/Shostakovich%3A_Symphony_No._1_in_F_minor%2C_Op._10.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Cl...
Dec 07, 2020•39 min•Season 13Ep. 19
Various selections from the TV show. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1095/Mozart_in_the_Jungle.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofB...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 13Ep. 18
works by Mozart, Rossini and Schoenberg Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1094/La_Musica_40.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcel...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 13Ep. 17
