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Last year the Classical Network’s Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler learned about a CD debut from a pianist named Steven Spooner. What was unusual was that this release contained fifteen CDs and one DVD.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (9/16) presents Rossini's Petite messe solennelle. Join host Gabriel Crouch, Director of Choral Activities at Princeton University, at 2 pm.

On this week's Distant Mirror hear music from the Carmina Burnana, those 11th-13th century student songs that became the model for Karl Orff's masterpiece centuries later:  Love songs, songs of morality, drinking and gaming songs, and songs of spiritual needs.  A performance by the Boston Camerata directed by Joel Cohen.  Join Allan Kelly at 10pm. 

This Wednesday at noon we'll hear violinist Stephen Tavani and pianist Michelle Cann in music by Beethoven, Britten and Sibelius from Tavani's graduation recital at the Curtis Institute last year.  He was  appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra earlier this year.  Performances from student recitals at the Curtis Institute, Wednesdays at noon and Monday evenings at 10.

Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata op. 47

Sibelius: Danses champetres, op. 106

Britten: Suite for Violin & Piano, op, 6 (selections)

Sunday evening 9-9 at 11 on Half Past we'll hear JoAnn Falletta lead the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in the Cello Concerto by Iranian composer Behzad Ranjbaran.  Also on the program, the Lydian String Quartet performs John Harbison's 2nd  String Quartet. Music composed in the past half-century on Half Past.