Episode 116: 13116 Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (Bastien and Bastienne), K. 50

Before and After, the much-anticipated new album from NOW Ensemble, a group of composers and performers creating "effervescent, genre-busting" chamber music for the 21st century. Before and After-NOW'...

21 Feb 202249min

After the brilliant success of their grand opera Les Huguenots (1836), Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe decided to collaborate again on a piece based on a historical religious conflict. Meyerbeer's...

20 Feb 20223h 38min

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to "Tristan und Isolde"Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, WAB 105 Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Purc...

19 Feb 20222h 34min

In 1949, two young Argentinian child prodigies met and made music together for the first time, the rest, as they say, is history. In continuation of Martha Argerich’s birthday celebrations, we announc...

17 Feb 20221h 19min

Jennifer Kloetzel’s lifelong journey with Beethoven began early: she was eight years old when her teacher placed the composer’s second cello sonata on her music stand, opening the door to an odyssey o...

16 Feb 20223h 6min

The film's music was composed by Bernard Herrmann.  Herrmann had composed for Welles for his Mercury Theatre radio broadcasts.  Because it was Herrmann's first motion picture score, RKO wanted to pay ...

15 Feb 20221h 1min

REDEEMING LOVE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by composers BRIAN TYLER and BRETON VIVIAN. The album features music written by the composing duo for the Western romance based on the be...

14 Feb 20222min

Les Huguenots was some five years in creation. Meyerbeer prepared carefully for this opera after the sensational success of Robert le diable, recognizing the need to continue to present lavish staging...

13 Feb 20223h 34min