Episode 63: 18064 Vaughan-Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)

Ballet "Onegin" is an adaptation of the verse novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin set to music by Tchaikovsky (mainly The Seasons) orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. Purchase the music (without ...

4 Mar 202159min

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous works, the piano compositions Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician...

3 Mar 20211h 19min

Frédéric Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes for solo piano between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short solo works for the instrument and hold an important place in the contempor...

2 Mar 20212h

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200, was written between 24 May and 19 July 1815, a few months after his eighteenth birthday. Like the other early symphonies (the six written before the ...

1 Mar 20211h 40min

Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the Gosp...

28 Feb 202139min

Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variat...

27 Feb 202140min

Claude Debussy's Préludes are 24 pieces for solo piano, divided into two books of 12 preludes each. Unlike some notable collections of preludes from prior times, such as Chopin's Op. 28 preludes, or t...

26 Feb 202144min

01 All Eyes are Watching 02 There is No Circumcision in Christ 03 I Am the First 04 See a Virgin is Pregnant Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1270/Telemann...

25 Feb 202158min