Featured Classical Recordings – Arts and Music
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"Making the world safe for classical music, one note at a time." Lara Downes goal!
Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference.
"I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire."
We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world.
In some pieces I have to think about organ sounds and effects and of course with the orchestra I’m always reminded of the expressive qualities of bowing
We recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and it sounded so great that it was inspiring.
Welcome spring with a bouquet of fine classical recordings.
At WFIU, we're thawing out with some fine classical music in March.
For the Lincoln bicentennial, the Spokane Symphony commissioned American composer Michael Daugherty to write Letters from Lincoln for baritone and orchestra.
With the Super Bowl recently passed, and the Olympics gearing up, I started trying to put together a sort of classical music “dream team.”
Spreading a little love of classical music in the month of February.
Highlighting the featured recordings at the beginning of the year.
We’ve got quite the lineup for December; from the German Baroque to imaginings of the composers of yesterday if they happened to have written today's songs.
Playwright and music critic George Bernard Shaw wrote of Pablo de Sarasate that he “left criticism miles behind him,” and by all contemporary accounts the Spanish violin virtuoso was unique. In this week’s featured recording violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony pay homage to the great Sarasate with a collection of his most outstanding works.
Naxos has released 5 volumes in their complete Vivaldi bassoon series, and we’re listening to music from the third. Bassoonist Tamás Benkócs performs on all five recordings with the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, conducted by Béla Drahos.