Classical Music with Walter Parker
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Weekdays
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Tuesday September 30, 2008
Midday Classical: Stephen Hough plays Saint-Saens from Gramophone Magazine's "Best Album of the last 30 years"
For 30 years Gramophone Magazine has been awarding its Album of the Year. From those 30 recordings, the Magazine's readers selected Stephen Hough's recording of the complete Piano Concertos of Saint-Saens as the best of the best. We'll listen to the Piano Concerto No. 2
Monday September 29, 2008
Midday Classical: Jaime Laredo and an all-star quartet perform Faure
Jaime Laredo and an all-star quartet perform Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1; a ballet by Stravinsky based on a card game; and the overture and dances from Smetana's opera, The Bartered Bride.
Friday September 26, 2008
Walter Parker speaks with Jaime Laredo, Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, at 11am
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is in the midst of its Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour and will begin its 2-year 75th anniversary celebration in October. Music Director Jaime Laredo speaks with Walter at 11.
Thursday September 25, 2008
Walter Parker speaks with Troy Peters, conductor of the Vermont Youth Orchestra
Troy Peters of the Vermont Youth Orchestra joins Walter at 11 for a preview of their coming season, which includes a trip to Quebec and France.
Wednesday September 24, 2008
Midday Classical
Violinist Leila Josefowicz just received a MacArthur "genius" grant. We'll hear her in the Violin Concerto of Sibelius and music of John Adams.
Tuesday September 23, 2008
Midday Classical
Beethoven's String Quartet No. 8, played by the Takacs Quartet, which will be at Dartmouth Saturday and Middlebury College on Sunday; plus The Flower Clock of Jean Francaix; Kreisleriana of Schumann, played by Mitsuko Uchida; and a suite from The Sleeping Beauty of Tchaikovsky.
Monday September 22, 2008
Midday Classical
The Autumn Equinox occurs at 11:44 this morning. We'll celebrate with Autumn from Haydn's oratorio The Seasons; plus the Symphony on a French Mountain Air by Vincent D'Indy and the Violin Concerto of Edward Elgar, played by Hilary Hahn.
Friday September 19, 2008
Midday Classical
Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, played by the Paris Piano Trio, which performs all of Beethoven's Piano Trios tonight and tomorrow in Montpelier; plus music of Beethoven played by Vladimir Feltsman, who performs in Middlebury tonight.
Thursday September 18, 2008
Midday Classical
Beethoven's Symphony No. 4; Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, played by Vladimir Feltsman, who will be at Middlebury College Friday; and The Plow that Broke the Plains by Virgil Thomson.
Wednesday September 17, 2008
Midday Classical
Roman Sketches by Charles Tomlinson Griffes, played by Vermont pianist Sylvia Parker; the complete Peer Gynt Incidental Music of Edvard Grieg; and Schubert's Piano Trio No. 1 played by the Paris Piano Trio, which will perform all of Beethoven's Piano Trios in Montpelier this weekend.
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Midday Classical
We'll listen to some of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, played by Vladimir Feltsman, who performs at Middlebury College Friday; plus Brahms' Piano Trio No. 3 played by the Paris Piano Trio, which will perform all of Beethoven's Piano Trios in Montpelier this weekend.
Monday September 15, 2008
Midday Classical
We'll celebrate today's birthday of American composer Horatio Parker with some of his piano music; and the birthday of conductor Bruno Walter with his 1960 recording of the Symphony No. 4 of Brahms.
Friday September 12, 2008
Midday Classical
Some of Schubert's incidental music for the lost play Rosamunde; Schumann's Symphony No. 2; and the Concerto Grosso #1 of Ernest Bloch, which will be on this weekend's performances of the Hanover Chamber Orchestra.
Thursday September 11, 2008
LIVE performance by pianist David Feurzeig
Pianist and composer David Feurzeig is the newest faculty member of the UVM Department of Music. He joins Walter for a live performance preview of his recital on Sunday, September 14, which blends Bach and Bartok with Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake.
Wednesday September 10, 2008
LIVE performance: Violinist Katherine Winterstein & pianist Inessa Zaretsky
Violinist Katherine Winterstein, concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Inessa Zaretsky perform Violin Sonatas by Beethoven.
Tuesday September 9, 2008
Midday Classical
Music of Rachmaninoff, played by the composer via music rolls he made for a reproducing piano; plus the Florida Suite of Delius, and the Double Concerto of Brahms.
Monday September 8, 2008
Midday Classical
The Trumpet Concerto of Haydn; the Piano Concerto of Poulenc; and the Cello Concerto of Honegger; plus Symphonies of Dvorak and Vaughan Williams.
Friday September 5, 2008
Midday Classical
A String Quartet by Amy Beach, based on Alaskan Inuit tunes; Beethoven's Diabelli Variations; Tchaikovsky's Little Russian Symphony; and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G.
Thursday September 4, 2008
Midday Classical
We'll feature Randall Thompson's setting of poems by Robert Frost, Frostiana, as we anticipate this year's Vermont Reads project, which involves a biography of the great poet.
Wednesday September 3, 2008
Midday Classical
Symphony No. 53 by Haydn and a Fantasy for Harp by Marcel Grandjany based on a theme from that symphony; plus Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5; and Soovin Kim's new recording of the Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet by Ernest Chausson.
Tuesday September 2, 2008
Midday Classical
Bach's French Suite No. 5, from Simone Dinnerstein's new recording; the Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, played and conducted by Pinchas Zukerman; and the Divine Poem Symphony of Alexander Scriabin.
Monday September 1, 2008
Midday Classical
We'll reward your labor with Serenades by Mozart and Brahms; the complete Water Music of Handel; and Beethoven's ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus.
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