Corigliano tunes up
John Corigliano (b. 1938) — Oboe Concerto (Humbert Lucarelli, oboe; American Symphony; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, cond.) RCA/BMG 60395
Reminding you that all music was once new ® • with host John Birge
John Corigliano (b. 1938) — Oboe Concerto (Humbert Lucarelli, oboe; American Symphony; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, cond.) RCA/BMG 60395
David Schiff (b. 1945) — Stomp (Baltimore Sym; David Zinman, cond.) Argo 444 454-2
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) — Symphony in C (Chicago Symphony; Sir Georg Solti, cond.) London 458 898
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) — Symphony No. 7 (Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, cond.) DG 471 490 Elisabetta Brusa (b. 1954) — Adagio (Ukraine National Symphony; Fabio Mastrangelo, cond.) Naxos 8.555267
Dominick Argento (1927-2019) — A Ring of Time (Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, cond.) Reference 91
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951) — A Survivor from Warsaw (Simon Callow, narrator; London Symphony; Robert Craft, cond) Koch 7263 Bright Sheng (b. 1955) — String Quartet No. 3 (Shanghai Quartet) BIS 1138
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) — Flight of the Bumble Bee, from Tsar Saltan (Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond.) London 460 250 Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumble Bee (Budapest Clarinet Quintet) Naxos 8.553427 Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumble Bee (Itzhak Perlman, violin; Samuel Sanders, piano) EMI 54882
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) — Libiamo (Brindisi), from La Traviata (Frank Chacksfield Orchestra) London 436 849
George Frederic Handel (1685 – 1759) — Israel in Egypt (King's College Choir; Brandenburg Consort; Stephen Cleobury, cond.) London 452 295
Dan Roman: "La garita del diabolo" fr "Fabulas" (Katalin Viszmeg, vn; Pi-Hsun Shih, p.) Innova 904
Host John Birge presents a daily snapshot of composers past and present, with timely information, intriguing musical events and appropriate, accessible music related to each.
He has been hosting, producing and performing classical music for more than 25 years. Since 1997, he has been hosting on Minnesota Public Radio's Classical Music Service. He played French horn for the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra and performed with them on their centennial tour of Europe in 1995. He was trained at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy.