Episode 49: 18049 Winter Meditation

Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of t...

18 Jul 20211h 54min

Centuries-old Chinese poetry is brought vividly to life in a new recording from Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. We announce their second album for DG The Song of the Earth, recorded in Sh...

14 Jul 20211h 43min

All 5 of Beethoven's Piano Concertos An absolutely superb performance by our resident concert pianist Sylvia Keller.Expertly conducted by Dominique Beaulieu and the CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans. ...

13 Jul 20213h 3min

Isata Kanneh-MasonSummertimeBrilliant performances on the piano. Works by Wild, Barber, Gershwin, Beach, Copland, and Coleridge-Taylor Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings....

12 Jul 20211h 10min

Thaïs is an opera, a comédie lyrique in three acts and seven tableaux, by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. It was first performed at the...

11 Jul 20212h 19min

Joe Hisaishi Songs of Hope: The Essential Joe Hisaishi Vol. 2 Out August 20, 2021 Decca Gold Following the massive success of his Dream Songs album, Joe Hisaishi is releasing the second volume of his...

10 Jul 202112min

GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 25th commercial album, WORDS ADORNED. WORDS ADORNED features The Crossing with the Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture’s Takht Ensemble – le...

9 Jul 202150min

Johann PachelbelCanon in D Major for Strings and ContinuoPartia No. VI in B-flat Major for Strings and ContinuoPartie in G Major for Strings and ContinuoJohann Friedrich FaschConcerto in D Major for T...

8 Jul 202158min