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, April 17-23:
Sunday, April 17
1pm - Columbus Symphony Broadcast
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_gm0NCabPs
8pm - Musica Sacra with Christopher Purdy
Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben? O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf.
These two motets set biblical text to rich choral arrangements, and highlight Brahms' use of harmonic structures as motivic elements. Within the first phrase-- a solitary "Warum?" cried out by the four voices-- the chorus moves from D major to g minor, which makes perfect sense for the text taken from the book of Job: "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,and life unto the bitter in soul?"
Monday, April 18
7pm - Essential Classics with Christopher Purdy
Bizet's Symphony in C
Opera lovers usually automatically associate Bizet with his famous opera Carmen, and for good reason, but here is another work to catalogue under his name. In fact, his Symphony in C came long before any of his famous operas; he was just 17 and still a student of Charles Gounod when he composed the work.
Tuesday, April 19
7pm - The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Composer Jennifer Higdon’s choral setting of E.E. Cummings’ poem “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly Beyond.”
Wednesday, April 20
7pm - Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
“Asturias” from the Suite espanola by Isaac Albeniz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WG_UI8fPfM
Thursday, April 21
7pm - Symphony@7 with John Rittmeyer
Richard Blackford, The Great Animal Orchestra
Friday, April 22
7pm - The San Francisco Symphony
- Griffes The White Peacock, Opus 7, no.1
- Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3
- Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 73
- Stravinsky Petrushka
Saturday, April 23
1pm - The Metropolitan Opera live broadcast
Verdi's Otello made some drama at the Met this past year even offstage. Check out Christopher Purdy's 'Opera Abbreviated' podcast and one of my earlier articles about the treatment of the leading role's usual "requirement" for black makeup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2JrHu5x4w
6pm - The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Cantus sings Byron Adams’ Eventide
7pm - Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
The Pulcinella Suite by Igor Stravinsky arranged for three guitars