Classical Music on The Third Floor

Series produced by WILLIAM CROMWELL

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The only show of its kind, featuring selections of choral, vocal, and instrumental music with host Bill Cromwell, a mix of music listeners won't find on any other classical music platform.

A Classical Music Mix produced by host, Bill Cromwell, featuring arias, motets, symphonies, concertos, anthems, and one major work per hour. Come up to The Third Floor for a personal approach and the only program of its kind.


186 Pieces

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Last week, all three featured works were instrumental. This week, all choral! We’ll listen to Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht, The First W...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:28
  • Purchases: 6
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One featured work per hour, including Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, Haydn’s London Symphony, and the second symphony by Alexander Borodin. Plus...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:02
  • Purchases: 11
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I’ll be playing music for you that is new to me. The one piece I do know and have played on the show in the past, I need to hear more, because it’s...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:42
  • Purchases: 9
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A requiem from Russian composer Alexander Kastalsky. The work was composed during the first world war. Together, you and I are going to explore a...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:47
  • Purchases: 10
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We’ll hear Brumel’s Earthquake mass from the 16th century, then in the third hour John Tavener’s Ikon of Light. We’ll listen to a piano quintet f...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:10
  • Purchases: 10
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Music from around the world and across the centuries, composed over the last 500 years . . . and beyond. Selections coming up on this week’s progra...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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This week, works from Bach, Enescu, Chopin, and Rossini, and in the second hour, a very special guest: Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth. He...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Andre Caplet's Conte fantastique is the last hour's featured work, based on a short story by Poe: The Masque of the Red Death. Harpist Alexander ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Bill Cromwell hosts a classical journey through choral, vocal, and instrumental classical music, this week featuring music from Handel, Boccherini,...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:41
  • Purchases: 10
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Featured works include a divertimento from Mozart, the Coronation Ode from Elgar, and the Peer Gynt Suites from Grieg. Also music this week from W...

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  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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Dvorak’s Symphony #6, a Requiem from Herbert Howells, and the Adagio from Mahler’s incomplete 10th symphony, plus music from Palestrina, Carver, Gr...

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  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 10
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The Schumann Piano Concerto, a cantata from Bach, and a choral setting of Lux aeterna from Morten Lauridsen in the final hour. We’ll also enjoy vi...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:33
  • Purchases: 9
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Three featured works: an early symphony from Dvorak, a setting of poems put to music by Gerald Finzi, and Grieg’s piano concerto, plus music of La...

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  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:23
  • Purchases: 9
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14 composers paying us a visit this week including Franck, Couperin, Tchaikovsky, Boyce, Bach, and Chopin with one featured work per hour from the ...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:30
  • Purchases: 9
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Chopin’s Sonata for Piano and Cello, Brahms Piano Quintet, and in the third and final hour of the program, a specially arranged version of a Schube...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:48
  • Purchases: 9
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So much music this week! Howells, Chopin, Bach -- Compositions from the 13th century, the 15th century, and through to the 20th century.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:08
  • Purchases: 10
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Visit The Third Floor as we celebrate five broadcast years. Bill Cromwell will play his top ten favorite composers, with the usual mix of choral, v...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:29
  • Purchases: 8
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Music from Debussy, Brahms, Vivaldi, Bach, and Rachmaninoff during our time together, plus a quintet from Michael Haydn and Bruckner's 8th Symphony.

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:42
  • Purchases: 9
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A Rosetti Horn Concerto in the first hour, a Schubert piano trio in the second hour, before we get to Beethoven’s 9th to conclude this week’s journ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:10
  • Purchases: 8
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Guiseppe Verdi’s magnificent Requiem on this week's program. Also music from Gretchaninov, Beethoven, Holst, Rachmaninov, Bach, and Schubert with t...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:49
  • Purchases: 9