The first woman composer to win an Oscar for best original score is releasing her first album of music not written for a film or stage production.
In Our Daily Breather, we ask writers and artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Violinist Jennifer Koh recommends seeking out a source of carefree joy.
The famed Massachusetts music festival — the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra — has canceled all of its live events due to the coronavirus.
In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Pianist Jonathan Biss is focusing on being grateful.
In a new album of keyboard concertos, hear how J.S. Bach's son charted his own startling and original path in music that sparkles with unpredictability
Grammy-winning fiddler Augustin Hadelich brings one of the finest violins in the world to the Tiny Desk.
The Central Park Five is an operatic narrative retelling the true story of the five African-American and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of raping and assaulting a white woman in 1989.
Albums are still events for us, even and especially as we shelter in place. Lido Pimienta, Fiona Apple and Sam Hunt released music that we held close to the chest.
Raymond Bisha introduces a new release from Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat of French piano rarities by Boulez, Debussy, Messiaen and Ravel: “I heard Ralph play this same repertoire at a concert in Carnegie Hall a couple of years ago, and it was amazing. Ralph says his aim is to convince people of the ‘immense Read More ...
Raymond Bisha introduces Michael Daugherty’s This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. The work celebrates The Dust Bowl Troubadour’s folk songs of love, wandering and social justice through Daugherty’s own original songs and instrumental music. These were composed after he drove for several weeks along the desolate, barren and dusty Read More ...
Raymond Bisha introduces the latest release in the Naxos Beethoven anniversary digital album series. Ranging from a solo piano to the huge resources required for his final symphony, the programme comprises ten works that define the last ten years of Beethoven’s creative life, exemplifying his ever more technically challenging pieces, their novel structures, and the Read More ...
Join Raymond Bisha in a podcast of artistic discovery as he unveils yet another American classic—Randall Thompson’s Requiem. Reckoned by many to be his most ambitious work, the composer himself considered it to be his masterpiece, yet it has languished for decades on the periphery of the choral performance repertoire. This world première recording from Read More ...
Beethoven’s concertos enjoy the spotlight in this podcast from Raymond Bisha. It serves as a companion resource to the latest digital album in our series marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The technical and musical demands Beethoven makes of his concerto soloists shine centre-stage in this compilation of wonderful performances of movements from Read More ...
Raymond Bisha introduces Richard Danielpour’s oratorio The Passion of Yeshua, a 105-minute work for large chorus, six soloists and orchestra that takes the listener back to Jesus’ final day on earth, removing as much as possible the accretions of history since that moment in an attempt to provide a fuller understanding of the connection of Read More ...
Raymond Bisha presents an overview of works written by Beethoven during his middle years period. It’s a companion resource to the latest release in Naxos’ monthly digital album series featuring the music of Beethoven in this 250th anniversary year of his birth. February’s compilation album (9.30206) presents a programme of works written between 1802 and Read More ...
The guest host of this podcast is Ashley Jackson. She is an accomplished musician, who has studied the music of both Margaret Bonds and Florence Price, who composed and worked during the civil rights movement in the United States. In this podcast, Dr Jackson gives us both an historical and a personal perspective on how Read More ...
Raymond Bisha presents an overview of Beethoven’s nine symphonies as a companion resource to the first of Naxos’ monthly digital albums presenting the music of Beethoven in this 250th anniversary year of his birth. January’s compilation album (9.30209) spotlights the symphonic journey and stylistic progression from Beethoven’s Second Symphony to his Ninth Symphony, ‘Choral’. The Read More ...
Raymond Bisha introduces this new release from the Grand Piano label. It’s the opening volume in what is to be the first complete series of recordings of Nino Rota’s works for solo piano, performed by Eleanor Hodgkinson. Nino Rota embraced neo-Classical, neo-Romantic and even neo-Baroque affiliations. His music prized melodic directness and communicative generosity, so Read More ...
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley Dies Haus und dies Weib sing Hundings Eigen Lehmann and Melchior Teschmacher and Lorenz Flagstad and Svanholm Watson and Vickers Janowitz and Vickers Friedmund darf ich nicht heißen Volker and Muller Teschmacher, Lorenz, and Bohme Treptow, Alsen, and Konetzni pt. 1 pt. 2 Ralf, Werth, and Alsen Svanholm, Nilsson, and […]
With Lew Smoley
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley No. 9 Adagio Allegro Adagio, Lento, Presto No. 10 No. 11 (Unfinished)
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley No. 7 Allegro Moderato Larghetto Allegro Marciale No. 8 Andante Quasi Adagio Allegro Moderato Allegro Vivace Lento, Tenuto E Maestoso
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley No. 4 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd movement No. 5 in b minor Allegro Energico Andante Allegro Assai No. 6 Andante Sostenuto, Ma Ritmico Molto Allegro Festoso
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley No. 1, c minor 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd movement No. 2 “Legendaire” Molto Allegro E Agitato Sostenuto Assai, Grave E Funebre Tempestoso, Ma Non Troppo Allegro (Quasi Toccata) No. 3 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd Movement
Listening Guide With Lew Smoley Delius In A Summer Garden Alfven A Boat With Flowers Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Seeds of Flowers: excerpts Rentree Summer Song Till The Roses Memories Entering The Summer Garden Gruenberg White Lilacs Lang Fleur Du Delice Bond Jasmine FLower (Moli Hua) Peng Xiu Wen Plum Blossom Melodyu Lam Fung Give Me A […]
This week on the Daily Download, we're featuring Beethoven violin sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birthday! Get a free MP3 of Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 6: II. Adagio, molto espressivo . And don't forget to sign up for the Daily Download newsletter to get a bonus download of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' - and so you never miss a free classical track!
A listener request show for Westerns! From "Stagecoach" to spaghetti westerns. A great lineup of music from epic western film.
MPR invites everyone across Minnesota to join us for Bring the Sing Home at 5:55 p.m. central every Friday by stepping outside their front door or opening a window for a mass rendition of "Sweet Caroline," which will be simulcast on Classical MPR, The Current, MPR News and Radio Heartland.
Today we will use music to think about how to remember those who have served their country, and those who are no longer with us.
This week on the Daily Download, we're featuring selections from your Ultimate Feel-Good Playlist. Get a free MP3 of Emile Waldteufel - Estudiantina. And don't forget to sign up for the Daily Download newsletter to get a bonus download of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' - and so you never miss a free classical track!
This Friday at 7 p.m. central, listen to an encore broadcast from the Minnesota Orchestra. This program features principal clarinet Gabriel Campos Zamora playing not one, but two concertos!
Pianist Zoltan Fejervari plays the Beethoven Op. 27 No. 1 with skill and passion. His recent Chopin Society recital performance is in this week's Regional Spotlight. Listen now!