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, May 1st- 7th:
Sunday, May 1st:
1:00 PM, Columbus Symphony Orchestra Broadcast
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto in D Minor, Op. 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yVdoup1xg
8:00 PM, Musica Sacra with Christopher Purdy
Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri is a fantastic example of oratorio composition for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. Oddly enough, the story is translated from a tale from "Lalla-Rookh" by Thomas Moore in which the Peri, a creature from Persian mythology, is expelled from Paradise. Eventually the creature regains its celestial home by bringing to heaven a gift most precious; a tear from the cheek of a repentant sinner. The music is indeed heavenly, and it only serves to illustrate a rich and unusual text all the better.
Monday, May 2nd:
7:00 PM, Essential Classics
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBzcyOzoLBk
Tuesday, May 3rd:
7:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Eric Whitacre’s choral setting of Go, Lovely Rose
Wednesday, May 4th:
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
Carmen Suite with music from Georges Bizet’s opera arranged for four guitars
Thursday, May 5th:
Symphony@7 with John Rittmeyer
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 “The Great"
Friday, May 6th:
7:00 PM, The San Francisco Symphony Broadcast
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459 is music fit for a king... literally. This was the piece Mozart selected to play for the coronation of Leopold II in October of 1790. Mozart played the piece himself due to its demanding three movements; Allegro I, Allegretto II, and Allegro assai III.
Saturday, May 7th:
1:00 PM, Metropolitan Opera Broadcast
Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio is a feat of vocal gymnastics and spectacle; two things The Metropolitan Opera certainly knows how to deliver.
6:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
The King and I by Rogers and Hammerstein
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
A Mozart piano sonata arranged and performed by Paul Galbraith