Performed by 1,583 musicians CMD German Opera Company of Berlin CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice CMD Chorus and Philharmonic of Paris CMD Boy's Choir of Vienna Conducted by Kenneth Hedgecock Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p498/Mahler%3A_Symphony_No._8_%22Symphony_of_a_Thousand%22.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 14Ep. 44
MUSIC FOR WOODWINDS from composer Scott Pender, his fourth appearance on the label. On this album, Pender showcases his chamber works for woodwinds from the last thirty years in ensemble combinations both common and unfamiliar. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1145/Music_for_Woodwinds.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgec...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 14Ep. 42
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219 Performed and conducted by Dominique Beaulieu CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orlean Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p497/Mozart_Violin_Concerti_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 #LaMusica...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 14Ep. 43
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, "Straßburg", K. 216 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor and violin soloist CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p495/Mozart_Violin_Concerti_2_and_3.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMu...
Dec 19, 2020•50 min•Season 14Ep. 41
Featuring Carmine Miranda and Boris Abramov Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1144/Mozart_Beethoven_-_Violin_and_Cello_Duets.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 #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBer...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 14Ep. 40
Featuring the beautiful harp compositions/performances of Anne Van Schothorst. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1143/Beautiful_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 #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCom...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 14Ep. 39
The Abduction from the Seraglio is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of Pasha Selim. The work premiered on 16 July 1782 at the Vienna Burgtheater, with the composer conducting. Dominique Beaul...
Dec 19, 2020•2 hr 23 min•Season 15Ep. 114
01 Francaix - String Trio 02 Beethoven - Piano Trio in G Major 03 Dvorak - String Quartet in E-flat Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1142/La_Musica_48.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 ...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 14Ep. 38
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 1 in B-flat Major, K. 207 Dominique Beaulieu, violin soloist and conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orlean Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K. 284 Joana Filipe Martinez, pianist Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p493/Mozart_-_Age_18_Finale.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDisco...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 14Ep. 37
The Complete Nocturnes and Ballades of Chopin is a fresh look at some of the Polish composer’s most expressive works. The nocturnes and ballades are also some of Chopin’s most innovative works, displaying exciting advancements in harmony, rhythm, and form—all renewed in pianist Eliane Rodrigues’s nuanced, thoughtful performances, recorded in Sicily, Italy’s acoustically advanced Fazioli Concert Hall. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1141...
Dec 18, 2020•2 hr 52 min•Season 14Ep. 34
Internationally renowned, New York-based pianist Mirian Conti has recorded Lalo Schifrin – Piano Works, a collection of solo piano music by Grammy© Winning and Academy Award© Nominated Composer Lalo Schifrin. The collection of World Premieres will be released on November 1 by the Naxos Grand Piano label (GP776). Ms. Conti will present a special CD launch concert on November 30 at the Consulate General of Argentina, 12 West 56th Street, New York, NY. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2....
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 14Ep. 33
Feuersnot (Need for (or lack of) fire), Op. 50, is a Singgedicht (sung poem) or opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The German libretto was written by Ernst von Wolzogen, based on J. Ketel's report "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde". It was Strauss' second opera. Thematically, the opera has been interpreted as a parody of Richard Wagner's idea of "redemption through love", with the character of Kunrad representing Strauss himself. The conceptual framework for the opera stems from the Nietzsch...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 14Ep. 32
Symphonia Domestica (Domestic Symphony), Op. 53, is a tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss. The work is a musical reflection of the secure domestic life so valued by the composer himself and, as such, harmoniously conveys daily events and family life. Joana Filipe Martinez, conductor CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p488/R_Strauss%3A_Symphonia_Domestica.html Your purchase he...
Dec 18, 2020•54 min•Season 14Ep. 31
Il re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Giambattista Varesco. It is an opera seria. The opera was first performed on 23 April 1775 in Salzburg, at the Palace of the Archbishop Count Hieronymus von Colloredo. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p487/Mozart%3A_Il_re_pastore%2C_K._208.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Di...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Season 14Ep. 30
We proudly present VERDI’S GUITAR, an album by guitarist Alan Rinehart made up of six fantasies for solo guitar by 19th-century composer guitarist/composer Josef (Johann) Kaspar Mertz. Each fantasy is based on an opera of the great Giuseppe Verdi, including such famous works as Nabucco, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1140/Verdi%27s_Guitar.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical ...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 14Ep. 29
Symphony No. 7 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1904–05, with repeated revisions to the scoring. It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night (German: Lied der Nacht), which Mahler never knew (and certainly would be unlikely to have sanctioned). Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of E minor, its tonal scheme is more complicated. The symphony's first movement moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor, and the work ends with a rondo finale in C major. Thus...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 14Ep. 25
The Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem), Op. 5, by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage. The work derives its text from the traditional Latin Requiem Mass. Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic and Chorus of Paris Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 14Ep. 24
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid. The traditional Latin texts are interspersed, in telling juxtaposition, with settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, written in World War I. Purchase the mus...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Season 14Ep. 23
Requiem in D minor (1855) is for soli, choir, and orchestra. Despite his success in the operetta world, Suppé repeatedly strove to leave his mark in other, completely different, musical domains. We can see this, especially in his sacred works, many of which he composed in his later years. The Requiem in D minor can be regarded as the apotheosis of his sacred oeuvre. He dedicated the work to his friend and mentor Franz Pokorny, who directed several theaters simultaneously (in Vienna, Baden, Oeden...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 14Ep. 22
The most popular requiem of the 18th century. CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu Performed and recorded at Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Orléans Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p478/Durante%3A_Requiem_in_C_minor.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 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 14Ep. 21
Following their debut release DRESS CODE, Altius Quartet returns with a drastically different set of repertoire on SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS 7, 8 & 9 but is played with the same passion and meticulous dedication one could expect from the group. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1139/Shostakovich%3A_String_Quartets_7%2C_8%2C_9.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica Interna...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 14Ep. 20
Arensky - String Quartet No 2 in A Major Op 35 Rossini - Duo for Cello and Double Bass Shostakovich - Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1138/La_Musica_47.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 17, 2020•16 min•Season 14Ep. 19
A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45 (German: ''Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift'') by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, a soprano and a baritone soloist, composed between 1865 and 1868. It comprises seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes, making this work Brahms's longest composition. A German Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem, A German Requiem, as its titl...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 14Ep. 18
John Rutter's Requiem is a musical setting of parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English, completed in 1985. It is scored for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra or chamber ensemble. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p475/Rutter%3A_Requiem.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMu...
Dec 17, 2020•44 min•Season 14Ep. 16
The SATB choir and organ version of Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, Op. 9 was published in 1948 by the French firm Durand. It had been commissioned six years earlier under the collaborationist Vichy regime, but Duruflé was still working on it in 1944 when the regime collapsed and in fact did not complete it until the year of publication. The composer dedicated the Requiem to the memory of his father. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p474/Duruf...
Dec 17, 2020•49 min•Season 14Ep. 16
Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Fauré's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900. Purchase the music (...
Dec 17, 2020•45 min•Season 14Ep. 15
Composer Steve Rouse constructs unique and indelible sound worlds on his album MORPHIC RESONANCE. The album is a revue of Rouse’s chamber music from the last two decades and beyond, and the works featured on MORPHIC RESONANCE demonstrate Rouse’s powerful gifts to create compelling and idiosyncratic musical statements. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1137/Morphic_Resonance.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Dis...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 14Ep. 14
Tomás Luis de Victoria’s requiem mass for six voices, written in 1603 and published in 1605, is an absolute masterpiece from the Renaissance Period. It is one of a handful of large-scale works that enjoy mainstream appeal in the 21st century. For many, it represents what Renaissance polyphony is, what it sounds and feels like, and how expressive it can be. This work is heard best in a darkened room while you relax and let the music flow over and through you. This performance is by the CMD Grand ...
Dec 17, 2020•54 min•Season 14Ep. 13
Mozart composed 17 Church Sonatas between 1772 and 1780. These church sonatas are short single-movement pieces that were performed during a celebration of the Mass between the Epistle and the Gospel. Three of the sonatas include more orchestral scorings including oboes, horns, trumpets and timpani. However, the more common sonatas were scored for 2 violins and a continuo. All the sonatas were commissioned by the Archbishop of Salzburg and were meant to go with specific religious mass settings. P...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 13Ep. 125
Mozart’s “Ascanio in Alba” was commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa. Her son, who would be Emperor Joseph II (who is featured in the movie “Amadeus”) would remember Mozart very well 10 years later when Wolfgang comes to Vienna. This opera was composed for Empress Maria’s wedding of her third son, Archduke Ferdinand, and Princess Maria Beatrice of Modena. The wedding was held in Milan on October 15, 1771. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/...
Dec 16, 2020•2 hr 44 min•Season 13Ep. 124
