Crumb goes Macro
George Crumb (b. 1929) Makrokosmos No. 2 Laurie Hudicek, piano Furious Artisans 6805
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Bloch's Quintet
Ernest Bloch (1880 – 1959) Piano Quintet No. 1 Portland String Quartet; Paul Posnak, piano Arabesque 6618
The "historically informed" Mahler
J.S. Bach (arr. Gustav Mahler) Orchestral Suite Berlin Radio Symphony; Peter Schwarz, cond. Schwann 11637
Corigliano tunes up
John Corigliano (b. 1938) Oboe Concerto Humbert Lucarelli, oboe; American Symphony; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, cond. RCA/BMG 60395
"Beethoven's" Jena Symphony
Friedrich Witt (1770 – 1832) Jena Symphony in C Westphalian Symphony; Hubert Reichert, cond. Turnabout LP TV-S 34409
Stravinsky in C Major
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Symphony in C Chicago Symphony; Sir Georg Solti, cond. London 458 898
Beethoven and Brusa take it slow
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
The Minneapolis Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra
Dominick Argento (b. 1927) A Ring of Time Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, cond. Reference 91
Schoenberg and Sheng
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
Rimsky-Korsakov's bee takes flight
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) Flight of the Bumble Bee, from Tsar Saltan Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond. London 460 250 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee Budapest Clarinet Quintet Naxos 8.553427 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee Itzhak Perlman, violin; Samuel Sanders, piano EMI 54882
About Composers Datebook®
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.