Episode 1: 18001 Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
Soprano Renée Fleming today releases Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, her new album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on Decca Classics. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia ...
14 Okt 20211h 3min
Episode 197: 17197 Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles
The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 i...
10 Okt 20213h 1min
Episode 195: 17195 Marschner: Der Vampyr
Oct. 30, 2021 - We discovered (thanks to a listener) that the opera was incomplete. We uploaded a COMPLETE version today. Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschn...
3 Okt 20212h 13min
Episode 194: 17194 The World's Most Favorite Violin Concertos
The great Jascha Heifetz performs:Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in DMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Fritz Reiner conducts the Chicago SymphonyCharles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony Purchas...
29 Sep 202159min
Episode 192: 17192 Glass: Akhnaten
Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is ...
26 Sep 20212h 23min
Episode 191: 17191 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op.64
The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that year...
22 Sep 202151min
Episode 189: 17189 Mozart: Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at...
19 Sep 20213h 6min
Episode 186: 17183 Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 and Novelettes, Op. 21, Nos, 1 and 2
A gift to CMD by the Rubenstein family.Performed by Artur RubinsteinConducted by Carlo Maria GiuliniChicago SymphonyRecorded in 1968RCA Red Seal Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classi...
15 Sep 202148min
