This week on ‘Extra Eclectic,’ host Steve Seel features a concerto for orchestra, but not Bela Bartok’s famous example, which features each section of the orchestra. Instead, we hear acclaimed American composer Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto for Orchestra.
On this week’s episode of New Classical Tracks, vocal ensemble Conspirare, led by music director Craig Hella Johnson, collaborate with the Miró Quartet in their debut joint album, ‘House of Belonging.’ Find out more!
American cellist Katie Tertell is seeking to recover from Japan forgotten manuscripts by Spanish composer Gaspar Cassadó.
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra welcomes back beloved artistic partner Pekka Kuusisto with a varied and colorful program. Cindy Cox’s new work for the SPCO, Dreaming a World’s Edge, was inspired by photographs of remote and endangered geographic locales captured with an antique 19th-century camera. Ralph Vaughan Williams, after the horrors of the first world war, sought to capture a simpler time with his famous tone poem for violin and chamber orchestra, The Lark Ascending, a work that shares with Cox a sense of fragility about the natural world. Louise Farrenc’s little-known but masterful Symphony No. 3 brings this concert to a dramatic conclusion.
On the latest episode of ‘Saturday Cinema,’ host Lynne Warfel explores the film scores of two landmark composers from Hollywood's Golden Age: Erich Korngold and Max Steiner. Selections include music from ‘The Sea Hawk,’ ‘King Kong’ and ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Listen now.
The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.
Imagine a cozy fire, a cup of cocoa, the northern lights and Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto. Rachel Peterson, the Project DJ co-host on the Sept. 22, 2023, episode of Friday Favorites, shared a story that will make you want to live close to the Arctic Circle. Listen now with host Steve Staruch.
Host Steve Seel gives us a variety of contemporary music on the latest episode of ‘Extra Eclectic.’ The program features works by Missy Mazzoli, Philip Glass and more. Listen now!
On this week’s episode of New Classical Tracks, violinist Rachel Barton Pine combines classical music and metal in her latest recording, ‘Dependent Arising,’ featuring concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich and Earl Maneein. Find out more!
This week on SymphonyCast, host Steve Seel brings us the biggest musical party of the year —the last night of the proms!
