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, July 10th-16th.
Sunday, July 10th:
1:00 PM, Music in Mid-Ohio with Christopher Purdy
Early Music in Columbus: The Early Interval: Cakes and Ale, Part 2
8:00 PM, Musica Sacra with Christopher Purdy
This week's Musica Sacra features the Soon One Morning Medley sung by the illustrious ensemble, Chanticleer.
Monday, July 11th:
7:00 PM, Essential Classics with Christopher Purdy
Grieg's Holberg Suite played by the Ohio Philharmonic Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfxfO4NG1E
Tuesday, July 12th:
7:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring has become nearly synonymous with 'American music.'
Here is an incredibly illuminating audio recording of Copland rehersing with an orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfWMoHKZzfY
Wednesday, July 13th:
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck's album features Chopin as you've never heard his music before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrHWTMmcopA
Thursday, July 14th:
7:00 PM, Symphony@7
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Friday, July 15th:
7:00 PM, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Broadcast
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Strauss's An Alpine Symphony
Saturday, July 16th:
1:00 PM, Opera and More with Christopher Purdy
Puccini's La rondine (The Swallow) debuted in Monte Carlo in 1917, but its music is somehow still a little uncertain, even after nearly a century.
The opera was met with public approval and even some love from the press, but it remained the un-assuming cousin to Puccini's larger, more blockbuster-style, works. In fact, Puccini's own editor Tito Ricordi referred to the score as: "bad Lehar." (refering to the opera composer Franz Lehar)
Thankfully, this opera has received something of a revival since the 1990s and continued play in recent years. Listen this Saturday as Christopher Purdy introduces an opera set in the salon of a Parisian courtesan. It's full of romance, heartbreak, and scandal; it's nothing short of perfectly operatic.
6:00 PM, The American Sound with Jennifer Hambrick
Leonard Bernstein's witty Divertimento for Orchestra
7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer
Concerto for Four Guitars by Vivaldi, played by The Romeros