Every week is concert week on Classical 101. Tune in to hear everything from Ravel to Bach with witty insight and conversation from hosts in-the-know. Here's a sneak peek of what's on the menu for next week, February 28th- March 5th.
This Monday, of course, is Leap Day so Classical 101 will celebrate with special programming all day. Here are a few sneak peeks, specially selected for the celebration of the Leap Year, Rossini's birthday, and a few Classical Grammy winners. Tune in and enjoy!
Weekly Highlights for February 28th- March 5th:
Sunday, February 28th:
1:00 PM, Concerts @Ohio State
Beethoven's Cello Sonata in D, op.2 played by Mark Rudoff, cello, Edward Bak, piano
8:00 PM, Musica Sacra with Christopher Purdy
Bach's Mass in B minor
Monday, February 29th: This Monday, we'll have two selections from the WOSU Music Library that have never yet been heard on Classical 101: Stravinsky’s song cycle The Faun and the Shepherdess and the Overture to Rameau’s Zais. Both works premiered on Feb. 29th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz2hiuQfAJU
Various Times, Monday:
· Igor Stravinsky (conductor) and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Firebird and Petrouchka Suites
· Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Leontyne Price, and the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna, Volume 2
· Leonard Bernstein (conductor) and the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand)
· Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz in Concert (Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin)
· Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin for West Meets East
· Leonard Bernstein (conductor), and the London Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Symphony No. 8
Tuesday, March 1st:
7:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Elliott Carter's Holiday Overture was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra as celebration of the liberation of Paris during WWII. Carter wrote the entire work during the summer of 1944 and it also won the Independent Concert Music Publisher's Contest 1945.
Wednesday, March 2nd:
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
Bela Fleck's performance of Moto perpetuo by Niccolo Paganini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E93X8gnQRM
Thursday, March 3rd:
7:00 PM, Symphony@7 with John Rittmeyer
Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben
Friday, March 4th:
7:00 PM, The San Francisco Symphony during Classical Showcase
Pieces by Fauré, Schubert, Dvorak, and more
Saturday, March 5th:
1:00 PM, Metropolitan Opera Broadcast
Puccini Manon Lescaut
6:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Geraldine Dobyns’ Possum Rag
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
Niccolo Paganini’s daunting Violin Concerto No. 2