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John McGuire's wonderfully unique 48 Variations for Two Pianos.
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This week's opera comes from London's Royal Opera House and features the first opera in Wagner's "Ring Cycle," "Das Rheingold" featuring Christopher Purves as Alberich and Christopher Maltman as Wotan. The opera, performed in one 150 minute act, will be followed by more music featuring "northern" heroes (and an anti-hero) from Uumo Kalmi, Jean Sibelius, and Edvard Grieg,.
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A Tempo this Saturday (7/20) features an interview with Jonathon Heyward, the new music director of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center. -
The third in a series of programs devoted to pianists deserving wider recognition, this Friday (7/19 at 3 pm, with a rebroadcast Saturday 7/20 at 6 pm)
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The Sunday Opera heads off to France for the Lille Opera production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" featuring Timothy Murray in the title role. After the opera, we'll sample three more treatments of the Don Juan legend. -
While we were working on a previous program, we got the idea for a playlist of songs from the musicals about "dreams," and we've mined fifteen musicals from stage and screen to fill that list. -
Catulli Carmina is part of Orff's tryptych using the poems of Catullus that includes Carmina Burana.
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Mendelssohn, Bach, Lacuona, a little Liszt - and more. (Wednesday 7/17 at 3 pm and Sunday 7/21 at noon)
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A tribute to the iconic American pianist this Friday (7/12 at 3 pm, with a rebroadcast Saturday 7/13 at 6 pm)
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This week's Sunday Opera begins with Purcell's setting of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as "The Fairy Queen" and is followed by three (and a bit) treatments of Shakespeare's "The Tempest finishing with Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize winning Tempest Fantasy. -
We've programmed fourteen songs about "music" from a wide variety of musicals for this week's program from Edward German's "Tom Jones" to last year's "New York, New York" by Kander and Ebb. -
Weill wrote this one act in the same year, 1928, that he wrote The Threepenny Opera.
