Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859, with influential sets designed by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, Jean Émile Daran, Édouard Desplechin, and Philippe Chaperon. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gounod: Faust (classica...
Oct 24, 2021•3 hr 6 min•Season 18Ep. 5
French-American pianist Julia Den Boer today releases her second album, Kermès, on New Focus Recordings. The album's four stunning works by experimental female composers include Giulia Lorusso’s Déserts, Linda Catlin Smith’s The Underfolding, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Reminiscence, and Rebecca Saunders’ Crimson. Kermès Track List1. Giulia Lorusso — Déserts (2018) [15:02]2. Linda Catlin Smith — The Underfolding (2001) [20:58]3. Anna Thorvaldsdottir — Reminiscence (2017) [8:43]4. Rebecca Saunders — C...
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 18Ep. 21
Beautiful minimalistic music to relax and enjoy the beauties around you.Composed by Erland Cooper and Kathryn JosephTracklisting:A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverIts Loveliness IncreasesIt Will Never Pass Into NothingnessBut Still Will Keep a Bower Quiet for UsAnd a Sleep Full of Sweet DreamsAnd Health and Quiet BreathingWatch Erland's YouTube Video at:Erland Cooper - Never Pass Into Nothingness - YouTube Purchase the music (without talk) at:Never Pass Into Nothingness (classicalsavings.com)You...
Oct 22, 2021•27 min•Season 18Ep. 12
The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin release their latest album Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 to celebrate the achievements of Florence Price in surmounting systemic barriers of African-Americans and women in classical music. Price came to prominence almost ninety years ago. The composer’s Symphony No. 1 was the first symphonic work by a Black woman to be played by a major American orchestra. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classical...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 18Ep. 3
The “extravagantly talented” (The New York Times) American organist Cameron Carpenter today digitally releases his first album on Decca Gold, a recording of J.S. Bach’s The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 juxtaposed with his own transcription of Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major, Opus 30, W45, "Romantic." Both works are performed on the International Touring Organ, the American digital concert organ designed by Cameron Carpenter. The album is available today digitally and will be relea...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 18Ep. 8
Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue and five acts, then reduced to four and an epilogue, written and composed by Arrigo Boito inspired by Goethe's Faust. The first performance took place in Milan, at the Teatro alla Scala, on March 5, 1868, conducted by Boito himself, but it ended in a sensational fiasco, perhaps due, in addition to the excessive length of the work, to the strongly ideological content of some episodes, then suppressed. The work was then reduced and reworked by the author, who ...
Oct 17, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Season 18Ep. 2
Trailblazing composer duo Hania & Dobrawa releases its much-anticipated debut album Inner Symphonies on Deutsche Grammophon. Polish composer-pianist-singer Hania Rani and composer-cellist Dobrawa Czocher, the two youngest composers ever signed to the label, combine piano, cello, and electronics on a genre-bending, a style-defining album of ten works that reflect the closeness of an artistic partnership that has continued to evolve since they first met in their early teens at music school in ...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr•Season 18Ep. 6
In this broadcast, we preview Marie Osmond's upcoming December 10, 2021 album - Unexpected. The tracks previewed are:Nessun DormaUnexpected You can pre-order this release at: Amazon.com : marie osmond unexpected
Oct 15, 2021•12 min•Season 18Ep. 4
Soprano Renée Fleming today releases Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, her new album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on Decca Classics. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the centrality of nature in Romantic-era songs and highlights the peril and fragility of the natural world today. Says Fleming, “This music begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now, in the A...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 18Ep. 1
The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, with the premiere scheduled for 1983. Corigliano and Hoffman took as the starting point for the opera the 1792 play La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother) by Pierre Beaumarchais. They took seven years to complete the opera, past the initial deadline. The opera r...
Oct 10, 2021•3 hr 1 min•Season 17Ep. 197
Oct. 30, 2021 - We discovered (thanks to a listener) that the opera was incomplete. We uploaded a COMPLETE version today. Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the play Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut (1821) by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, which itself was based on the short story The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori. The first performance took place on 29 March 1828 in Lei...
Oct 03, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Season 17Ep. 195
The great Jascha Heifetz performs:Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in DMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Fritz Reiner conducts the Chicago SymphonyCharles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1400/The_World%27s_Most_Favorite_Violin_Concertos.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoverie...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr•Season 17Ep. 194
Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel, Richard Riddell, and Jerome Robbins. According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach (about Albert Einstein) and Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi). These three peopl...
Sep 26, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Season 17Ep. 192
The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting. It is dedicated to Theodor Avé-Lallemant. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1398/Tchaikovsky%3A_Symphony_No._5_in_E_minor%2C_Op.64.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Music...
Sep 22, 2021•52 min•Season 17Ep. 191
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1396/Mozart%3A_Cos%C3%AC_fan_tutte%2C_ossia_La_scuola_degli_amanti_%28All_Women_Do_It%2C_o...
Sep 19, 2021•3 hr 7 min•Season 17Ep. 189
A gift to CMD by the Rubenstein family.Performed by Artur RubinsteinConducted by Carlo Maria GiuliniChicago SymphonyRecorded in 1968RCA Red Seal Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1393/Schumann%3A_Piano_Concerto_in_A_minor%2C_Op._54_and_Novelettes%2C_Op._21%2C_Nos%2C_1_and_2.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries...
Sep 15, 2021•49 min•Season 17Ep. 186
The producers of Classical Music Discoveries, Ken and Sandy Hedgecock, with friend Debra Martineau and pianist Jan Myers, perform 2 selections from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Children's Songbook - I Am a Child of God and Teach Me to Walk in the Light. This is a live recording.
Sep 13, 2021•5 min•Season 17Ep. 196
Rossini composed La Cenerentola when he was 25 years old, following the success of The Barber of Seville the year before. La Cenerentola, which he completed in a period of three weeks, is considered to have some of his finest writing for solo voice and ensembles. Rossini saved some time by reusing an overture from La gazzetta and part of an aria from The Barber of Seville and by enlisting a collaborator, Luca Agolini, who wrote the secco recitatives and three numbers (Alidoro's "Vasto teatro è i...
Sep 12, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Season 17Ep. 188
For the first time in history, 12 of the most wonderful violins ever made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), have traveled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album, 12 Stradivari, captures the individual characters of each instrument in specially curated music accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano at the piano. 12 Stradivari – Tracklist: Manuel de Falla: arr. Kreisler: Danse Espagnole from “La Vi...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 17Ep. 184
Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization. Varèse thought that "to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise"...
Sep 08, 2021•41 min•Season 17Ep. 182
Track available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Father-Worship-feat-Hope-Glory/dp/B09CZ5JGYR/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=father+we+worship+you+ace+patterson&qid=1630805705&s=dmusic&sr=1-1 stream on spotify https://open.spotify.com/search/ace%20patterson%20father%20we%20worship%20you music video on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKp-E-C_5dE
Sep 07, 2021•3 min•Season 17Ep. 193
Rusalka, Op. 114, is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. A rusalka is a water sprite from Slavic mythology, usually inhabiting a lake or river. Rusalka was the ninth opera Dvořák composed. Kathryn Cavanaugh, conductorCMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1391/Dvorak%3A_Rusalka%2C_Op._114.htmlYour purchase he...
Sep 05, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Season 17Ep. 183
Festival Music for ViennaParade March for the First Regiment of the Royal Mounted HuntersCavalry Parade March No. 2Vienna Philharmonic FanfareFanfare for the Opening of the Music Week in ViennaSolemn Processional of the Knights of the Order of St. JohnOlympic Hymn The Locke Brass ConsortMusical Heritage Society Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1386/R._Strauss%3A_Music_for_Symphonic_Brass.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Disco...
Sep 01, 2021•40 min•Season 17Ep. 177
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1382/Bizet%3A_Carmen.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music...
Aug 29, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Season 17Ep. 172
3 LP Set.This is a recording of the American Premier from 1974.Gennady Rozdestvensky, conductorBolshoi Theater Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1388/Prokofiev%3A_The_Stone_Flower.htmlYour 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 #CMDParisPhi...
Aug 27, 2021•2 hr 20 min•Season 17Ep. 180
The album is a breathtaking collection of globally inspired compositions and collaborations, with each composer sharing their own personal interpretations of folk music. Works include a title track by Vietnam War veteran J. Kimo Williams with a performance by electric violinist Tracy Silverman, Pamela Z’s The Unraveling, What is the Word? by Christopher Theofanidis and Mark Wingate, new arrangements of a trio of Armenian folk songs by pioneering Armenian composer Komitas, and Eve Beglarian’s We ...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 17Ep. 187
Daedalus and IcarusTo the StarsWe Choose to Go to the MoonPurchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1381/Christopher_Tin%3A_The_Orchestral_Sessions_%28Vol._1%29.htmlYour 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#CMDGermanOperaComp...
Aug 25, 2021•19 min•Season 17Ep. 171
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué.The plot concerns the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was shot, as the result of a political conspiracy, while attending a masked ball, dying of his wounds thirteen days later. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1...
Aug 22, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 17Ep. 170
The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. Purchase this 55 CD set at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TZ6TD95/?tag=umgklassik-21&ascsubtag=0028948399482_B08TZ6TD95_diverse+k%C3%BCnstler_orpheus+chamber+orchestra+-+complete+recordings+on+dg_www.universal-music.de
Aug 21, 2021•31 min•Season 17Ep. 185
A true collector's album.World Premiere recording of Symphony No. 15.Conducted by Maksim ShostakovichThe Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1387/Shostakovich%3A_Symphony_No._15_in_A_Major%2C_Op._141.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMu...
Aug 20, 2021•47 min•Season 17Ep. 178
