THREE ORCHESTRAL WORKS BY DWIGHT BECKHAM, SR. marks a tremendous sample of American composer Dwight Beckham’s lyrical style and command of the orchestra. Based in Kansas, Beckham is part of an important generation of composers who, in the latter half of the twentieth century, persisted in their pursuit of a classically Romantic aesthetic. To this end, Beckham’s orchestral music is stalwartly thematic, crisply orchestrated, and centered on dramatic melodic and harmonic ideas. Purchase the music (...
Dec 22, 2020•31 min•Season 14Ep. 87
Scott Joplin's 2nd and final opera. This landmark first ever recording of this opera will surprise you! Listed as a "ragtime opera" this description couldn't be further from the truth. This is more in line with a Gilbert and Sullivan production and includes an excellent morality story and also some "pre-blues" numbers.k Performed by the Houston Grand Opera Company. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p531/Scott_Joplin%3A_Treemonisha.html You...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 14Ep. 86
Mozart Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor K 478 Rossini String Sonata No 5 in E-flat Major Schoenberg Transfigured Night Op 5 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1153/La_Musica_49.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 #CMDParisP...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 14Ep. 82
Composer Garth Baxter makes his debut with a collection of his exquisite works for voice entitled Ask the Moon. This album is about the human condition and the pursuit of light in darkness. A setting of Sara Teasdale’s “Nights Without Sleep,” for voice and piano commences the album’s journey of introspection. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p527/Garth_Baxter_-_Ask_the_Moon.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Dis...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr•Season 14Ep. 81
Les Danaïdes is an opera by Antonio Salieri, in 5 acts: more specifically, it is a tragédie lyrique. The opera was set to a libretto by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet and Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, who in turn adapted the work of Ranieri de' Calzabigi (without permission). Calzabigi originally wrote the libretto of Les Danaïdes for Christoph Willibald Gluck, but the aged composer, who had just experienced a stroke, was unable to meet the Opéra's schedule and so asked Salieri to take it ...
Dec 22, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Season 14Ep. 80
Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings....
Dec 22, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Season 14Ep. 79
Fidelio, originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with the work premiering at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Stephan von Breuning helped shorten the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschk...
Dec 22, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Season 14Ep. 78
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 Moonlight Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Pathetique Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 Appassionata Mozart Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K 457 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 in B-flat Op 106 Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1151/Piano_Sonata_Celebration.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festi...
Dec 21, 2020•2 hr 13 min•Season 14Ep. 77
The Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1812. Beethoven fondly referred to it as "my little Symphony in F," distinguishing it from his Sixth Symphony, a longer work also in F. The Eighth Symphony is generally light-hearted, though not lightweight, and in many places cheerfully loud, with many accented notes. Various passages in the symphony are heard by some listeners to be musical jokes. As with various other Beethoven works su...
Dec 21, 2020•37 min•Season 14Ep. 76
The Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1811 and 1812 while improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice. The work is dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries. At its première, Beethoven was noted as remarking that it was one of his best works. The second movement, Allegretto, was the most popular movement and had to be encored. The instant popularity of the Allegretto resulted in its frequent performance separate fro...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 14Ep. 74
The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony, is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, the symphony was first performed in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert. CMD German Opera Company of Berlin, Orchestra Sylvia Wagner, conductor Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p520/Beethoven...
Dec 21, 2020•49 min•Season 14Ep. 72
The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". The symphony consists of four movements. The first movement is Allegro con brio; the se...
Dec 21, 2020•46 min•Season 14Ep. 73
The Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in the summer of 1806. It was premièred in March 1807 at a private concert at the home of Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Sylvia Wagner, conductor Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p518/Beethoven%3A_Symphony_No._4_in_B-flat_Major%2C_Op._60.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Class...
Dec 21, 2020•42 min•Season 14Ep. 72
The Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, (also Italian Sinfonia Eroica, Heroic Symphony) is a symphony in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven. One of the composer's most celebrated works, the Eroica symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of Beethoven's creative middle-period. Composed mainly in 1803–1804, the work is grounded in the Classical symphonic tradition while also stretching boundaries of form, length, harmony, and perceived emotional content. It has the...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr•Season 14Ep. 71
The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, is a symphony in four movements written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1801 and 1802. The work is dedicated to Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p516/Beethoven%3A_Symphony_No._2_in_D_Major%2C_Op._36.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusi...
Dec 21, 2020•42 min•Season 14Ep. 70
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, was dedicated to Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an early patron of the composer. The piece was published in 1801 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel of Leipzig. It is not known exactly when Beethoven finished writing this work, but sketches of the finale were found to be from 1795. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p515/Beethoven%3A_Symphony_No._1_in_C_Major%2C_Op._21.html Your purchase helps...
Dec 21, 2020•34 min•Season 14Ep. 69
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. Performed by the CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 14Ep. 68
The restored and complete Alfred Burt carols. Alfred Burt, the son of an Episcopal minister, was a young. jazz musician, who composed fifteen, now legendary, Christmas Carols between 1942 and 1954. With each Christmas since his early death at the age of 33, the Carols reach a wider and more appreciative audience. Purchase the music at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Christmas-Complete-Collection-Alfred/dp/B0000031I7/ref=pd_bxgy_2/142-1475029-3235005?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0000031I7&pd_rd_r...
Dec 21, 2020•36 min•Season 14Ep. 67
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 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 14Ep. 66
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%2C_the_Reindeer.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored...
Dec 21, 2020•40 min•Season 14Ep. 65
Tchaikovsky's incidental music to the play "Snow Maiden" Sylvia Wagner, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p514/Tchaikovsky%3A_The_Snow_Maiden%2C_Op._12.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 #CMDGrandOperaCom...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 14Ep. 64
13 of Sandy's favorites its_the_most_wonderful_time_of_the_year.wav hark_the_herald_angels_sing.wav its_christmastime.wav how_far_is_it_to_bethlehem.wav pine_cones_and_holly_berries.wav o_holy_night.wav the_christmas_wish.wav what_is_this_lovely_fragrance.wav there_is_faint_music.wav 12_days_of_christmas.wav where_are_you_christmas.wav sleigh_ride.wav peace_on_earth_drummer_boy.wav Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1091/Sandy%27s_Favorite...
Dec 21, 2020•59 min•Season 14Ep. 63
Sandy's Favorite Christmas Music 1 I Saw Three Ships I'll Be Home For Christmas Somewhere In My Memory The Innkeeper (Let Him In) When Christmas Comes to Town Shepherd's Pipe Carol The Peace Carol A Song and a Christmas Tree The Best Gift Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas The Secret of Christmas Candlelight Carol Merry Christmas Darling Somewhere In My Memory Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1051/San...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 14Ep. 62
DECADE ZERO, a compilation of works for instruments and electronics by Christopher Biggs. The works integrate traditional instruments with live electronic processing and sound files. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1149/Decade_Zero.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAli...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 14Ep. 61
Tchaikovsky's most popular and final ballet. Performed by the CMD Philharmonic of Paris and conducted by Dominique Beaulieu. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p511/Tchaikovsky%3A_The_Nutcracker_%28complete%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 #CMDG...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 14Ep. 59
Shocking, gripping, and thought-provoking, Mara Gibson's new album SKY-BORN conjure a flurry of emotions through its moody music. In one moment, the busy strings create a fury of anxious, energetic sounds; the next, the strike of a lone piano chord paints a brooding soundscape. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1148/Sky-Born.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International C...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 14Ep. 57
Based on the Ukrainian folktale of the same name, THE MITTEN presents a world built using simple narration as its foundation and a complex composition creating the surrounding universe. Composer Mona Lyn Reese needs only to speak a few short sentences from a children’s tale in each track, and then lets the performers in the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra carry the details of the story deep into the imagination. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com...
Dec 20, 2020•19 min•Season 14Ep. 53
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p503/Verdi%3A_Rigoletto.html Your purchase helps to...
Dec 20, 2020•2 hr 9 min•Season 14Ep. 50
ANCESTRAL VOICES, the Apollo Chamber Players’ next installment in their 20x2020 project. 20x2020 is an initiative to commission 20 new folk music-inspired and multicultural works by the end of the decade. This fiery release comprises four 20x2020 works from composers Gilad Cohen, Arthur Gottschalk, Malek Jandali, and Javier Farias. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1146/Ancestral_Voices.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classi...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 14Ep. 49
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19 Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 Sergei Prokofiev Diana Semenova, violin Sylvia Wagner, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p499/Prokofiev%3A_Violin_Concerti_1_and_2.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #Keep...
Dec 19, 2020•58 min•Season 14Ep. 45
