Enchanting the likes of Prog Magazine, Scala Radio and the BBC, Morpheus Project has announced the hugely anticipated release of their debut album, Mozaick. The expansive prog, world and classical project has been wowing audiences across the musical spectrum with the singles, Mozaick, Nights to Remember and Cry for Freedom getting airplay around the world. With musical influences from as far afield as the Far East and South America, neo-classical composer Mustafa Khetty’s musical venture Morpheu...
Mar 19, 2021•52 min•Season 17Ep. 83
Respighi: Violin Concerto in A major, P. 49 Respighi: Piano Concerto in A minor, P. 40 Respighi: Toccata for Piano and Orchestra, P. 156 Respighi: Fantasia Slava in G minor for Piano and Orchestra, P. 50 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1292/Respighi%3A_Violin_and_Piano_Concertos.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicD...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 17Ep. 89
19 selections, for St. Patrick's Day, as performed by Irish Musicologist/Pianist, JJ Sheridan Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1291/Ancient_Music_of_Ireland.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 #CMDGerma...
Mar 17, 2021•40 min•Season 17Ep. 88
Belfagor (premiere 26 April 1923) is an Italian-language opera by the composer Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla (1880–1948) based on the comedy Belfagor of Ercole Luigi Morselli (1882–1921), itself loosely based on the novella Belfagor arcidiavolo by Niccolò Machiavelli. It was premiered in 1923 at La Scala in Milan, under the baton of Antonio Guarnieri, since Toscanini was unavailable. The cast featured Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan as Candida, baritone Mariano Stabi...
Mar 16, 2021•2 hr 23 min•Season 17Ep. 87
Sevres de la vieille France is a shorter less boisterous work. It is based on themes from 17th and 18th century France. charmingly orchestrated. Le astuzie di Colombina, also known as Scherzo Veneziano, is set in two tableaux with an intermezzo. It lasts some thirty minutes and has a very simple plot involving the usual characters of the traditional Commedia dell’arte. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1289/Respighi%3A_Sevres_de_la_vieille_France_and_Sc...
Mar 15, 2021•45 min•Season 17Ep. 86
CMD Venice String Quartet performs: Respighi: Quartetto dorico, P. 144 Respighi: String Quartet in D minor, P. 91 Respighi: Piano Quintet in F minor, P. 25 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1288/La_Musica_International_Chamber_Music_Festival_76.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 #...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 17Ep. 85
La Boutique fantasque, also known as The Magic Toyshop or The Fantastic Toyshop, is a ballet in one act conceived by Léonide Massine, who devised the choreography for a libretto written with the artist André Derain, a pioneer of Fauvism. Derain also designed the décor and costumes for the ballet. Ottorino Respighi wrote the music based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. Its world premiere was at the Alhambra Theatre in London on 5 June 1919, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. La ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 17Ep. 84
Middle Ground, on Other Minds. “Highly virtuosic and deeply communicative” (New Music Box) violinist Kate Stenberg performs Honstein’s three-movement work for solo violin and electronics Middle Ground (2016) for the EP and in a new 20-minute film by Four/Ten Media. The liner notes were written by classical music journalist Vanessa Ague. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1215/Middle_Ground.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Dis...
Mar 12, 2021•24 min•Season 17Ep. 38
La bella dormente nel bosco (The sleeping beauty in the woods) is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Gian Bistolfi based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1285/Respighi%3A_La_bella_addormentata_nel_bosco.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicD...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 17Ep. 82
Maria egiziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt) is an opera in one act, in three episodes, by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. The libretto, by Claudio Guastalla, is based on a Medieval life of Saint Mary of Egypt, contained in the translation into the vernacular of the Vitae Patrum written by Domenico Cavalca. The work was originally intended as a concert piece although it has been fully staged in some revivals. It was first performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on 16 March 1932. The first sta...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 17Ep. 81
La fiamma (The Flame) is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla based on Hans Wiers-Jenssen's 1908 play Anne Pedersdotter, The Witch. The plot is loosely based on the story of Anne Pedersdotter, a Norwegian woman who was accused of witchcraft and burnt at the stake in 1590. However, Respighi and Guastalla changed the setting of the opera to 7th century Ravenna. The melodramatic tale involves the illicit love of Silvana, the daughter of a witch, for her ste...
Mar 09, 2021•2 hr 23 min•Season 17Ep. 80
Semirâma is an opera in three acts by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Alessandro Cerè based on Voltaire's 1748 play Sémiramis, the same subject used for Rossini's Semiramide. Semirâma premiered on 20 November 1910 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The première obtained great success, with several calls for the composer and the singers. In this opera, which often exploits the exotic cues offered by the subject, it is possible to find influences of the French music of its epoch and of Salome b...
Mar 09, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Season 17Ep. 78
Ancient Airs and Dances is a set of three orchestral suites by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, freely transcribed from original pieces for lute. In addition to being a renowned composer and conductor, Respighi was also a notable musicologist. His interest in Italian music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries led him to compose works inspired by the music of these periods. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1280/Respighi%3A_Ancient_Airs_and_Dances.ht...
Mar 06, 2021•54 min•Season 17Ep. 77
Lucrezia is an opera in one act and three tableaux by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla, after Livy and William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, itself based heavily on Ovid's Fasti. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed by his wife, Elsa Respighi, and by one of his pupils, Ennio Porrino. Lucrezia premiered on 24 February 1937 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in a production directed by Mario Frigerio with sets designed by Pietro Aschieri. ...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 17Ep. 76
GRAMMY-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony marks a return to form for the ensemble – a 58-minute program of new and ancient works organized around texts appropriate for Passiontide, the last two weeks of the Lenten season in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Champions of rare and rediscovered works of antiquity, New York Polyphony presents the world premiere recording Loyset Compère's Officium de Cruce, an elaborate, multi-movement motet cycle that rivals the masterpieces of Franco-F...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 17Ep. 43
Ottorino Respighi, 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936, was an Italian composer, violinist, and teacher who was one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, and chamber music, and include transcriptions of pieces from Italian composers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries and works of Bach and Rachmaninoff. Among his best known and most performed works are his three Roman tone poems, which brought him inter...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 17Ep. 75
Ballet "Onegin" is an adaptation of the verse novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin set to music by Tchaikovsky (mainly The Seasons) orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1277/Tchaikovsky%3A_Onegin_Ballet.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 #LaMusi...
Mar 04, 2021•59 min•Season 17Ep. 74
An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous works, the piano compositions Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds"), preferring this designation to that of "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911. Parade Gymnopédies Mercure Relâche Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.cl...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 17Ep. 73
Frédéric Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes for solo piano between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short solo works for the instrument and hold an important place in the contemporary concert repertoire. Although Chopin did not invent the nocturne, he popularized and expanded on it, building on the form developed by Irish composer John Field. Chopin's nocturnes numbered 1 to 18 were published during his lifetime, in twos or threes, in the order of composition. However, number...
Mar 02, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Season 17Ep. 72
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200, was written between 24 May and 19 July 1815, a few months after his eighteenth birthday. Like the other early symphonies (the six written before the "Unfinished" Symphony of 1822), it was not published during Schubert's lifetime. It appeared many years later, in the first Schubert complete works edition in 1884. It is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. The Symphony No. 3 in B minor "...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 17Ep. 71
Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the Gospel of Luke, was by Boris Kochno, who added a good deal of drama and emphasized the theme of sin and redemption ending with the Prodigal Son's return. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1273/Prokofiev%3A_The_Prodigal_Son%2C_Op._46.html Your purchase helps to ...
Feb 28, 2021•40 min•Season 17Ep. 70
Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on an original theme. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1272/Elgar%3A_Variations_on_an_Original_Theme%2C_Op._36.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and...
Feb 27, 2021•40 min•Season 17Ep. 69
Claude Debussy's Préludes are 24 pieces for solo piano, divided into two books of 12 preludes each. Unlike some notable collections of preludes from prior times, such as Chopin's Op. 28 preludes, or the preludes from Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of tonal centers. Each book was written in a matter of months, at an unusually fast pace for Debussy. Book I was written between December 1909 and February 1910, and Book II between the last mont...
Feb 26, 2021•44 min•Season 17Ep. 68
01 All Eyes are Watching 02 There is No Circumcision in Christ 03 I Am the First 04 See a Virgin is Pregnant Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1270/Telemann_Cantatas.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 #...
Feb 25, 2021•59 min•Season 17Ep. 67
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "Spring" (La primavera) Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "Summer" (L'estate) Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "Autumn" (L'autunno) Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "Winter" (L'inverno) Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 39a Bridgette Strub - solo harpist Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1269/V...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 17Ep. 66
Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers, a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act "opéra bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858, and was extensively revised and expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 7 February 1874. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classica...
Feb 23, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 64
Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141 by Dmitri Shostakovich was his last. He completed it in the summer of 1971 while receiving medical treatment in the town of Kurgan, then later at his dacha in Repino. It was his first purely instrumental and non-programmatic symphony since the Tenth. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich, was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. This piano conc...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 17Ep. 63
01 Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12 02 Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 03 Dance Suite, Sz. 77 04 2 Pictures, Op 10 05 Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 06 Divertimento for Strings, Sz. 113 Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1265/Bartok%3A_Orchestral_Works.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 ...
Feb 20, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Season 17Ep. 62
Symphony No. 46 in B major (1772) Symphony No. 47 in G major, The Palindrome (1772) Symphony No. 48 in C major, Maria Theresia (1768/1769) Symphony No. 49 in F minor, La passione (1768) Symphony No. 50 in C major (1773 and 1774) Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1264/Haydn%3A_Symphonies_46_-_50.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #C...
Feb 19, 2021•2 hr•Season 17Ep. 61
11 playful works by Mozart composed when he was 26 years old. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1263/Playful_Mozart.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 #CMDGrandOperaCompan...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 60
