Within their varied appearances and sounds, the piano, vibraphone, and marimba make up a unique family. Nonetheless, key similarities bind them together, and SUSTAIN explores just that. The latest multi-composer release presents works for various keyboards that explore not only the abilities of each instrument but the varied approaches from five different composers. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p894/Sustain.html Your purchase helps to support our sh...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 15Ep. 139
Music lovers are familiar with Ferruccio Busoni due to his extensive revisions of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard works, but the Italian's own compositions have long been reserved for the pleasure of a handful of connoisseurs. Looking at their technical scope, it is not difficult to see why: Busoni, a true-blue composer in the original sense of the word, possesses an original, eclectic style that is difficult to categorize. Pianist-performer Svetlana Belsky, who first discovered her love for th...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 15Ep. 138
PEACE, NATURE & RENEWAL THE MUSIC OF MARK DAL PORTO Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Petr Vronský conductor Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p890/Peace%2C_Nature_and_Renewal.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 #CMDParisPhilharmonic...
Jan 27, 2021•58 min•Season 15Ep. 137
Mark John McEncroe, who started his musical training in his late 30's, had always exhibited a varied, profound interest in music – one that led him to work as a major music label manager over the course of two decades. No doubt that it was partially this section of his professional career that formed the basis of his personal compositional language. Unimpeded by the constrictions of a musical academic career, he developed a style that is unapologetically concrete and evocative. Purchase the musi...
Jan 27, 2021•49 min•Season 15Ep. 136
Gounod: Romeo and Juliet - complete opera Joana Filipe Martinez - Producer/Conductor CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p886/Gounod%3A_Romeo_and_Juliet.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 #CMDP...
Jan 27, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Season 15Ep. 135
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70 Kathryn Cavanaugh - Conductor/Producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Orchestra Prokofiev: Symphony No 6 in C-flat minor, Op. 111 Sylvia Wagner - Conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p885/Shostakovich_9_and_Prokofiev_6.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Fes...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 15Ep. 134
KODALY- Duo for Violin and Cello BILIK- Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 30 BRAHMS- Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1222/La_Musica_Chamber_Music_Hour_69.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 #CMDParis...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 15Ep. 133
Despite the frequent crescendos to the sonic peaks of each composition, RENMEN LAMENTS is an exploration into the valleys of the soul. For most, creating art in the realm of somber moods poses challenges. For the Renaissance Men, the melancholic nature of their musical exploration is not only achieved individually but shared amongst the talents of the vocalists. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p884/Renmen_Laments.html Your purchase helps to support our...
Jan 26, 2021•53 min•Season 15Ep. 132
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor (Op. 113), subtitled Babi Yar, was completed on July 20, 1962, and first performed in Moscow in December of that year. The hour-long work requires a bass soloist, men's chorus, and large orchestra and is laid out in five movements, each a setting of a Yevgeny Yevtushenko poem. This unusual form gives rise to various descriptions: choral symphony, song cycle, giant cantata. The five earthily vernacular poems denounce Soviet life one aspect at ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 17Ep. 41
The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118 is Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and last ballet, written between 1948 and 1953. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale The Stone Flower by Pavel Bazhov and is also the last of the trilogy of ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Russian ballet tradition. Sylvia Wagner - Conductor/Producer CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Recorded/Edited by CMD Recordings Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p882/Prokofiev%3A_The_Tale_of_the_...
Jan 25, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Season 15Ep. 131
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Jan 25, 2021•2 min•Season 15Ep. 129
Jeff Morris's second album, WITH STRINGS, explores the possibilities of 21st-century counterpoint. He builds up rich musical textures by sampling violin and cello live and folding them back into the mix, influencing the performers in turn. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p880/With_Strings.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #Classi...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 128
What can one expect from a musician who spent his youth getting into trouble by furtively composing in chemistry class? Apparently a lot, provided they are cut from the same cloth as multi-faceted composer Phil Salathé, the brains behind IMAGINARY BIRDS: MUSIC FOR OBOE AND ENGLISH HORN. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p878/Imaginary_Birds.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International C...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 15Ep. 127
The esteemed Croatian Chamber Orchestra, is proud to release BENEATH THE TIDE, a reflection on human emotion and experience through a collection of five concertos. As the title suggests, BENEATH THE TIDE looks under the surface, examining underlying human realities that rise to the surface with the arrival of life’s changes. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p875/Beneath_the_Tide.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries i...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 15Ep. 126
Although Schoenberg is often seen as a composer strictly concerned with pitch, his interests in timbre and sonority are ever-present in all five of his completed piano works. Pianist Yoko Hirota performs three of Schoenberg’s completed works along with the 17 fragments that he never brought to completion. Hirota praised as being "precise and keenly projective" and demonstrating the "highest level of proficiency," is one of the leading interpreters of contemporary piano repertory, and she brings ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 15Ep. 125
Soprano Shudong Braamse blends vocal artistry with technical skill in her recording of SUEÑOS DE ESPAÑA. This treasury of Spanish art song relates stories of passionate love, broken promises, and heartfelt prayers. Braamse's performance demonstrates both an understanding of the rich Spanish culture and its 19th-century romantic poetry. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p871/SUE%C3%91OS_DE_ESPA%C3%91A_-_Spanish_Art_Songs.html Your purchase helps to suppor...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 15Ep. 124
It is tempting to compare Meštrović's compositional style to his great predecessors in the late-Romantic tradition. After all, much of the Croatian composer's style and techniques would be right at home in Rachmaninoff’s concertos, Tchaikovsky's works, or Prokofiev's neoclassicism; and the name of the album's first work, Danube Rhapsody, naturally evokes associations with Smetana's similarly the river-themed Vltava. Add to all of this that Meštrović, like most of his great musical ancestors, is ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 15Ep. 123
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks Suite in D Major, HWV 351 Handel: Water Music Suites Suite in F major, HWV 348 Suite in D major, HWV 349 Suite in G major, HWV 350 Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1220/Handel%3A_Music_for_the_Royal_Fireworks_and_Water_Music_Suites.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chambe...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 17Ep. 40
Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839. The libretto was written by Émile Deschamps, and the completed work was assigned the catalogue numbers Op. 17 and H. 79. It is based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet; it is regarded as one of Berlioz's finest works, and it is among the most original in form. The score is Berlioz's most comprehensive and detailed programmatic piece. Pur...
Jan 24, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 15Ep. 122
Bernstein: Piano Trio Federico Agostini, Christine Lee, Derek Han Brahms: Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40 (viola version) Ruth Lenz, Daniel Palmizio, Derek Han Schubert: String Quintet in C major, Op. 163, D.956 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Erica Piccotti, Antonio Meneses Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1179/La_Musica_55%2F68.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by...
Jan 24, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 15Ep. 121
D’Haene creates a remarkable musical world in MUSIC WITH SILENT AITAKE’S. When he was 25 years old, he began his life-long fascination with gagaku music, or traditional Japanese court music, that has informed his compositional style throughout his career. This study of a musical style different from that of his own culture resulted in what the composer calls "paradoxophony" or "paradoxical coexistence." Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p866/Music_with_S...
Jan 24, 2021•48 min•Season 15Ep. 120
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Jan 24, 2021•26 sec•Season 15Ep. 119
Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Sylvia Wagner - Conductor/Producer CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p863/Prokofiev%3A_Romeo_and_Juliet.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica Inter...
Jan 24, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Season 15Ep. 118
Sergio Cervetti, born in Uruguay, immigrated to the United States in 1962 to study contemporary composition, and his work contains a certain cosmopolitan quality reflective of his past and present. Although essentially a minimalist since 1970, he has branched out to embrace and incorporate diverse elements from a variety of aesthetics. The versatile creator understands how to pull the virtually unimaginable from its metaphysical realm into the here and now, a sudden manifestation of spirituality...
Jan 24, 2021•58 min•Season 15Ep. 117
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Jan 24, 2021•2 min•Season 15Ep. 115
Sergio Cervetti, born in Uruguay, immigrated to the United States in 1962 to study contemporary composition, and his work contains a certain cosmopolitan quality reflective of his past and present. Although essentially a minimalist since 1970, he has branched out to embrace and incorporate diverse elements from a variety of aesthetics. The versatile creator understands how to pull the virtually unimaginable from its metaphysical realm into the here and now, a sudden manifestation of spirituality...
Jan 24, 2021•54 min•Season 15Ep. 113
DEVIANT RESONANCES carries the concept of “creative listening" into new dimensions. In addition to the unconventional ways in which the everyday listener is called on to interpret the music, composer David Rosenboom literally uses the action of “listening” as an instrument. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p858/Deviant_Resonances.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Mus...
Jan 24, 2021•2 hr 12 min•Season 15Ep. 112
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 Featuring CMD Piano Competition Winner - Viktoria Shevchenko Kathryn Cavanaugh - Conductor/Producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Orchestra Joana Filipe Martinez - Conductor/Producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p860/Shostakovich%3A_Symphony_No._8_and_Piano_Concerto_No._2_.html Your purchase ...
Jan 24, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 15Ep. 116
Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody Smetana: The Moldau Ravel: Bolero Resphigi: Church Windows Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance Resphigi: Pines of Rome Sylvia Wagner - conductor Ken Hedgecock - producer CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p856/Private_Concert_for_Dignitaries.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgec...
Jan 23, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 15Ep. 111
Program III Sunday, April 15, 2018, 3:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House Paganini, Terzetto Concertante in D major, MS 114 Daniel Palmizio, Christine Lee, Jason Vieaux Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet in F major, Op. 143 Jason Vieaux, Ruth Lenz, Claudio Cruz, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.co...
Jan 23, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 15Ep. 110
