11:00 PM Zhang & Trpčeski Xian Zhang leads the CSO in Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony and Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message. In between, Simon Trpčeski joins her in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Opening the program, Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO in Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a from 1997 London recording.   Conductor:                               Xian Zhang Soloist:          ..read more

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11:00 PM Conductor:                   Alan Gilbert Soloists: Alan Opie, baritone Melissa Parks, mezzo-soprano Keith Jameson, tenor Wilbur Pauley, bass Joshua Bloom, baritone Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano Serena Benedetti, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Emalie Savoy, soprano Devon Guthrie, soprano Lacey Benter, mezzo-soprano New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus   Leoš Janáček:       ..read more

7:00 PM John Addison Theme from “Tom Jones” RCA/BMG 60393 COND Arthur Fiedler ORCH Boston Pops Orchestra               7:05 PM Anthony Newley/ Leslie BricussWilly Wonka: Main Title MCA 37124 ORCH Studio Orchestra 7:07 PM Anthony Newley/ Leslie BricussWilly Wonka: Pure imagination MCA 37124 ORCH Studio Orchestra         7:13 PM Ennio Morricone The Mission: Suite from the Film Silva 1057 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic SOLO The Crouch End Festival Chorus       7:28 PM Alexandre Desplat The Painted Veil DG/A ..read more

8:00 PM George Frederich Handel Ariodante: “Il primo ardor Avie 2350 COND Jeannette Sorrell ORCH Apollo’s Fire SOLO Amanda Forsythe, soprano 8:05 PM Joaquin Rodrigo Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios: Coplillas Angel/EMI 56175 SOLO Placido Domingo, tenor SOLO Manuel Barrueco, guitar 8:06 PM Joaquin Rodrigo “Coplas del Pastor enamorado” Angel/EMI 56175 SOLO Placido Domingo, tenor SOLO Manuel Barrueco, guitar 8:12 PM Charles Gounod St. Cecilia Mass Angel/EMI 47094 COND Georges Pretre ORCH Radio France Philharmonic Orch SOLO and Chorus SOLO Barbara Hendricks, soprano SOLO Laurence Dale, tenor SOLO Jean ..read more

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12:33 AM Frederick Delius — Paris: The Song of a Great City Conductor: Norman Del Mar Unicorn, 2076 12:13 AM Julius Rontgen — Violin Sonata No. 2 Key: F sharp Opus: 20 Frank Almond, violin William Wolfram, piano Avie, 2279 ..read more

  Last June, The Walters Art Museum inaugurated a new exhibition space to introduce rare books and manuscripts added to the Walters permanent collection in recent years, many of which have never been on view. I invited Lynley Anne Herbert, the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, into the BookNotes studio to talk about the project. http://www.wbjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BOOKNOTES-WALTERS.mp3   ..read more

We speak often on WBJC about the composers who were inspired by Shakespeare—from Mendelssohn and A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the 20th century version of Romeo and Juliet in the form of West Side Story. What is perhaps not as well known is how Shakespeare himself was inspired by other creatives. With a genius like Mozart or Beethoven or Shakespeare, they seem to tower above their peers as if they just materialized fully formed out of nowhere. But in truth every genius, as exceptional as they may be, is also a reflection of their particular time and place.  Second Globe Theatre, detail fr ..read more