Playlist: Classical
Compiled By: PRX Editors
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Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2 (Series)
Produced by WQXR
From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, a five-part Peabody award winning radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Season 2 features host Nadia Sirota with Meredith Monk, Kaija Saariaho, Ingram Marshall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Nico Muhly
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Most recent piece in this series:
Bonus Track: 'Viola Concerto: Part II' by Nico Muhly
From WQXR | Part of the Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2 series | 09:53
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Says Nadia Sirota, "Nico wrote the concerto in 2014, and in a lot of ways it's the fruit of 10 years of our working together. The piece is in three movements, and this movement, Part II, is sort of the emotional heart of the piece. It's soulful and colorful and I adore playing it.
At the end of the movement the viola line suffers a sort of massive emotional breakdown, which is then answered by a huge orchestral explosion, featuring a giant tam-tam (gong) and all sorts of low-brass rumbles. In the aftermath, individual members of the orchestra play small phrases independently of each other, finally reuniting in a wounded coda.
This is my favorite part of the concerto to play."
Classical Guitar Alive! (Series)
Produced by Tony Morris
Classical Guitar Alive is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is free to all stations.
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Most recent piece in this series:
23-17 Rossini’s Elizabeth, Queen of England Overture, Schubert’s Ave Maria, Bach’s Chaconne, and music by Carulli and Hagen
From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58
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DT: April 24, 2023
RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 23-17 Rossini’s Elizabeth, Queen of England Overture, Schubert’s Ave Maria, Bach’s Chaconne, and music by Carulli and Hagen
Total length: 58:57
INTRODUCTION:
Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude Los Romeros, guitar quartet
(Philips 412-609)
PROGRAM BEGINS:
Rossini: Elizabeth, Queen of England: Overture SoloDuo
“Metamorphoses” (SoloDuo 2014) 7:41
Hagen: Lute Concerto in A Hopkinson Smith, lute,
David Courvoisier, David Plantier, Chiara Banchini, strings
“Lautenkonzerte” (Naiive Classic 2013) (13:38)
Carulli: Grand Duo, op. 70 Sonja Prunnbauer, guitar, Robert Hill, fortepiano
“Carulli: Works for Guitar and Fortepiano” (MDG Scene 1996) 14:59
Schubert: Ave Maria Irina Kulikova, guitar, Feliks Volozhanin, cello
“It’s About the Touch” (Irina Kulikova 2020) 4:26
Bach: Chaconne in D Minor Beijing Guitar Duo
“Bach to Tan Dun” (Tonar Music 2011) 14:51
CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features Rossini’s “Elizabeth, Queen of England Overture,” arranged for guitar duo, a cello and guitar setting of Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” Bach’s Chaconne, performed by the Beijing Guitar Duo, Carulli’s Grand Duo, op. 70 for fortepiano and guitar, and Hagen’s Lute Concerto in A.
CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music. Classical Guitar Alive! airs each week on over 200 stations, and is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.
FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio
The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree (Series)
Produced by Candice Agree
There's no better way to know a country or a people than through its music. The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree invites everyone who has an interest in, a fascination of, and a love for the cultural life of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world to be entertained, enriched, and informed by this unique classical music program.
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Most recent piece in this series:
The Spanish Hour 2226: Dances, Impressions & Rhapsodies
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
From a Valencian medieval legend to the seat of the ancient Incan empire to pre-Colombian Peru and Bolivia to Cuba and the Argentine tango, works by Ginastera, Rodrigo, Lecuona and Frank, featuring flutist Eugenia Zukerman, pianist Thomas Tirino, and conductors Enrique Bátiz and Keith Lockhart, exploring contemporary visions of times gone by.
An American Stew
From KCME | 58:24
Michael Campion explores the diversity of American music with a potpourri of different kinds of works from different kinds of composers.
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Michael Campion explores the diversity of American music with a potpourri of different kinds of works from different kinds of composers.
Music and Conversation with Philip Glass
From The WFMT Radio Network | 58:44
To celebrate the incredibly influential American composer Philip Glass's 80th birthday, enjoy this music infused hour recorded last February when he was honored by his alma mater, the University of Chicago. WFMT host Kerry Frumkin speaks with him about his life in music, where he’s been, and what’s inspired him on his particular path.
Fiesta! (Series)
Produced by The WFMT Radio Network
Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners.
Most recent piece in this series:
FST 23-02: Easter Celebration, 4/2/2023
From The WFMT Radio Network | Part of the Fiesta! series | :00
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