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WWUH Classical Programming
October 2023
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera… Sundays 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Evening Classics… Weekdays 4:00 to 7:00/ 8:00 pm
Drake’s Village Brass Band… Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 pm
(Opera Highlights Below)
Sunday 1st
Schubert, Fierrabras
Monday 2d
Tuma: Partita No. 4 in d minor; Mozart: Symphony No. 17; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4; Martinu: Symphony No. 5; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite
Tuesday 3d
Diaghilev 150 – Debussy: Jeux; Debussy: Images for Piano; Rorem: Violin Concerto; Rodrigo: Conceirto para una fiesta; Guilmant: Sonata for Organ #1
Drake’s Village Brass Band…Bach: Goldberg Variations arr. Arthur Frackenpohl – Canadian Brass
Wednesday 4th
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (orchestral suite); Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata in C major for Recorder and B.c., TWV 41:C5, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 10; Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio in D major for Violin, Viola da gamba, and B.c., TWV 42:D9, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 10; Luidgi Merci: Sonata in G minor, Op. 3, No. 4 for Bassoon and B.c.; Anna Bon di Venezia: Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 1, No. 4; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 17th Sunday after Trinity, "Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden", BWV 47;
George Frideric Handel: Selected arias and duets; Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, Op. 120, D. 664; Max Reger: 52 Easy Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 (excerpts); Claude Debussy: L’isle joyeuse;
Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Trio 2 in C Minor, Op. 66.
Thursday 5th
Volkmann: String Quartet No. 3 in G Major; E. Franck: Roman Carnival Overture Op. 21, Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major Op. 42; Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9; Rootham: Miniature Suite.
Friday 6th
Remembering the voice of Alfredo Arnold Cocozza
Sunday 8th
Destouches, Semiramis
Monday 9th
Mozart: Oboe Concerto; Haydn: Piano Trio in B flat; Roberto Sierra: Symphony No. 6; Ravel: Ma Mere L’Oye; Ginastera” Estancia
Tuesday 10th
Cecile Licad- American Landscapes for Piano; Chávez: Symphonies 1-3; Widor: Symphony for Organ #5
Drake’s Village Brass Band…Music for Battle Creek- Brass Band of Battle Creek
Wednesday 11th
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou: Overture; Michael William Balfe: Ildegonda nel Carcere: Sventurata Ildegonda; Charles Auguste de Bériot: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 32; Mikhail Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B Minor (version for orchestra); Alberto Nepomuceno: Serenata; Johannes Brahms: Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1; Reynaldo Hahn: Chansons grises, Nos. 1 – 7 (Complete); Amilcare Ponchielli: Capriccio for Oboe and Piano; Count Giuseppe Poniatowski: All'amante lontano; Florence Beatrice Price: Piano Quintet; William Henry Fry: Overture to Macbeth; Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 29; Alexander Luigini: Ballet Egyptien Suite, Op. 12; Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38, "Spring" (re-orchestrated by G. Mahler)
Thursday 12th
Host’s Choice
Friday 13th
“Suite” ballet music
Sunday 15th
Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tsar's Bride
Monday 16th
Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 8; Herz: Piano Concerto No. 8; Litolff: Concerto Symphonique No.3; Florence Price: Symphony No. 4; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Monday 18th
Holzbauer: Symphony in A; Mozart: Vesperae de Domenica; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2; R. Strauss: Symphonica domestica; Litvinovsky: Pinocchio
Tuesday 17th
Stravinsky: The Nightingale; Chavez: Symphonies 4-6
Drake’s Village Brass Band – Monkey - UNLV Wind Orchestra val
Wednesday 18th
Host’s choice
Thursday 19th
Giannini: Piano Concerto; Blomdahl: The Wakeful Night: Adagio; Tveitt: 100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger Op. 151 - Suite No. 4 ‘Wedding Suite’; Hannikainen: Piano Sonata in c minor Op. 1.
Friday 20th
Jacques Loussier would have been 89 today and a celebration of Delius and Bruch “First Performances”
Sunday 22d
Paisiello, Nina
Monday 23d
Boccherini: Concerto for Cello, Oboe & 2 Horns; Moschelles: Piano Concerto No. 5; Kozeluch: Keyboard Sonata No. 4; R. Schumann: Symphony No. 1 “Spring”; Holzbaur: Symphony in D Op. 3 No. 4; Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1
Tuesday 24th
Charles Ives Birthday Celebration - Ives: Complete Sets for Chamber Orchestra, Orchestral Set #3; Milhaud: The Creation of the Earth
Drake’s Village Brass Band… American Brass – London Symphony Brass)
Wednesday 25th
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux (orchestral suite); Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata in E minor for Oboe and B.c., TWV 41:e6, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 11;
Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio in D minor for Flauto traverso, Oboe, and B.c., TWV 42:d4, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 11; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux (orchestral suite); Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata in E minor for Oboe and B.c., TWV 41:e6, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 11; Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio in D minor for Flauto traverso, Oboe, and B.c., TWV 42:d4, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 11; Anna Bon di Venezia: Flute Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 5; Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, "Ich geh' und suche mit Verlangen", BWV 49; George Frideric Handel: Selected arias and duets; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Trio No. 5 in C Major, K. 548; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110; Heitor Villa-Lobos: Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra;
Walter Piston: Symphony No. 2.
Thursday 26th
Giornovichi: Violin Concerto No. 5 in E Major; Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas; Roman: Violin Concerto in d minor; Mayseder: Potpourrie on Themes of Beethoven and Rossini.
Friday 27th
Vanessa-Mae fiddles around on her birthday
Sunday 29th
Verdi, Macbeth
Monday 30th
Fux: Partita in C; Holzbauer: Symphony in E flat OP. 3 No. 1; Sven-David Sandstrom: Piano Concerto; Borodin: Symphony No. 1 ;Poulenc: Sinfonietta
Tuesday 31st
Music for Halloween – Waxman: The Bride of Frankenstein; Liszt: Totentanz; Goldsmith: The Omen Suite; Rózsa: Spellbound Concerto
Drake’s Village Brass Band- Whitacre: Ghost Train; Kantelinen: Ghosts; Herrmann: Jason and the Argonauts
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA
your "lyric theater" program
with Keith Brown
Programming for the month of October 2023
SUNDAY OCTOBER 1ST Schubert, Fierrabras At various points in his brief artistic career, Franz Schubert attempted to make a name for himself as an opera composer. Besides the well known incidental music for Rosamunde (1823), Schubert composed at least nine complete operas, three more in substantial fragments and three more in rough sketch. The grandest of all his theatrical projects was Fierrabras (1823), a German language heroic-romantic opera modeled after those by Weber. The libretto reworks a chivalrous tale from the time of the emperor Charlemagne and the noble knight Roland. Schubert's music for Fierrabras comes from the same creative period as the song cycle Die schone Mullerin and the "Unfinished Symphony." He finished his score , the longest he ever wrote, in timely fashion for imminent production at the Karntnertor Theater, but due to opera politics the production was scuttled. Schubert never received the payment due for his work from the theater. The opera had to wait until 1897, the centenary year of Schubert's birth, for its staged premiere. In more modern times Fierrabras has been excerpted in recording, broadcast on radio, and since 1980 has been revived occasionally in theatrical performance. It got the definitive production it so richly deserved in 1988 in Schubert's hometown, Vienna, at the prestigious Theater an der Wien, with Claudio Abbado conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir. The English baritone Thomas Hampson is heard as Roland. I last aired this Deutsche Grammophon CD release exactly seventeen years ago this Sunday and prior to that on Sunday, March 29,1992. I figure you Schubert lovers will enjoy hearing Fierrabras again after you heard Schubert's other large-scale medieval romance Alfonso und Estrella (1822), broadcast last year on Sunday, October 16.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 8TH Destouches, Semiramis This Sunday's programming continues a long-ongoing broadcasting project of mine: to bring before the listening public the rediscovered glories of the lyric theater music of the French baroque. I have presented recordings of all of the tragedies en musique of the founder of French opera in the seventeenth century, Jean Baptiste Lully and many of the operas of Jean Philippe Rameau, the greatest French musicmaster of the eighteenth century. . The traditions of French baroque opera stretch out over a period of nigh on a hundred years from circa 1670 to around 1770. Thereafter the distinctly Gallic baroque style finally passed out of fashion upon the arrival of Gluck in Paris. There was a succession of French composers who improved upon the Lullian model: Andre Campra, for instance, and Andre Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749). Like the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Euridice, the equally ancient Babylonian story about Queen Semiramis has been taken up by so many opera librettists and composers. Destouches took up one variant of her story for his last and finest opera, produced in 1718 at the Academie Royale de Musique. The Destouches Semiramis has been resurrected by the players of the ensemble Les Ombres, jointly directed by Margaux Blanchard and Silvain Sartre. Semiramis was recorded in 2020 in the splendid baroque opera theater of the royal palace of Versailles under the auspices of Chateau Versailles Spectacles. The Chorus of the Concert Spirituel (dir. Herve Niquet) participated in this world premiere recording, released in 2021 on CD through the Chateau de Versailles label in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the building of the Opera Royal.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 15TH Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tsar's Bride The fifteen operas of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov display a wealth of Russian folklore upon the lyric stage. These fantastic tales are framed in brilliantly orchestrated scoring with melodies inspired by Russian folk song and dance. Rimsky-Korsakov also touched upon Russian history in the quasi-legendary period of the first Tsar, Ivan the Terrible. The Tsar's Bride (1899), his ninth opera, sets forth a story of young love, political intrigue at the highest levels of Ivan's regime, xenophobia and peasant superstition. A poisonous love potion figures tragically in the plot. This will be the fourth time over four decades of lyric theater broadcasting that I have presented The tsar's Bride. The first time was long ago on Sunday, January 15, 1989, when I aired the old Bolshoi Theatre recording dating from the 1970's on Angel/Melodiya LP's. Then on Sunday, September 29, 2002 came a more recent recording from Moscow's famed Bolshoi, made in 1992. It was issued here in the Weston on compact disc by Harmonia Mundi of France in its Le Chant du Monde series. Andre Chistiakov directs the house orchestra , chorus and an all native Russian speaking cast of vocal soloists. This is the same CD recording I featured again on Sunday, April 20, 2008.Listen to it yet again this afternoon.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 22ND Paisiello, Nina Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) wrote more than eighty operas in his long career. Many of them were comic operas. His "Barber of Seville" from 1782 set the standard in Italian opera buffa until Rossini's now famous "Barber" came along in 1816. Paisiello wrote in other related operatic genres, too, like his Nina,ossia La Pazza per Amore ("Nina, or The Madness of Love," 1793), styled a dramma giocoso, ie. a romantic comedy with a special, more serious melodramatic element. Before this work there had never been a prolonged representation of insanity on the operatic stage. It was intended to arouse the audience's sympathy for the plight of the heroine, an earnest young woman who has been driven mad when led to believe her much beloved fiance has been killed in a duel with a rival suitor for her hand. She is something like Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. All the heroines in nineteenth century Italian opera who go mad are descendants of Paisiello's Nina. The world famous La Scala opera house of Milan revived Nina onstage in 1999, and it was subsequently recorded by RAI Radio Italy of Milan at the Teatro Strehler. Riccardo Muti conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala. The Italian Agora label released Nina in 2000 on compact disc. I last broadcast this BMG Ricordi digital recording on Sunday, August 15, 2004.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 29TH Verdi, Macbeth Amongst his many early operas Macbeth (1847, revised 1865) is acknowledged as Giuseppe Verdi's first true masterpiece. It inaugurates the composer's glorious middle period, with La Traviata, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore soon to follow. Verdi was attuned to all the fantastic and horrific elements in Shakespeare's Scottish play, especially the witches, who have an even ,more important role in the opera than in the original Elizabethan stagework. Those nineteenth century "gothick" elements make this opera ideal for broadcast at Halloweentide. Macbeth is well represented in the Verdi discography. We have several now historic of it in our station's classical music record library. The oldest one , released through RCA Victor in 1959 in early stereo sound, features the cast, chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Erich Leinstorf conducting. I last broadcast that vintage recording way back on Sunday, November 15, 1987. Don't forget you also got to hear Swiss American composer Ernest Bloch's operatic take on Macbeth (1910), as presented on Sunday, October 28, 2001, and Shakespeare's original spoken word tragedy on Sunday, November 4, 2008.
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