Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Tuesday September 30, 2008
Morning Classics - Ringing in the day with Couperin and Marais
With the season's first snowflakes in the forecast for later this week...we'll hear Larsson's "The Winter's Tale" this morning (actually much more about Shakespeare, than winter...), - and, a listener request for the grand finale from Wagner's "Das Rheingold".
Monday September 29, 2008
Morning Classics - getting a dancing start to a Monday morning!
Listener request for Bach's bright motet, "Lobet den Herrn" - and, Nemorino reconfirms his love for Adina, in the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love".
Friday September 26, 2008
Morning Classics: including Mozart's grand "Haffner" Serenade
A few watery favorites for a rainy morning, including listener requests for "Sea Pictures" and Wagner's "Flying Dutchman".
Thursday September 25, 2008
Morning Classics
Autumn is in - and ON - the air!
Friday September 19, 2008
Morning Classics
It's National "Talk Like a Pirate" Day! - we'll dance like a pirate, with the "corsair's bacchanale" from the ballet by Adolphe Adam (black hip boots not required!) - and, the tick-tock sound of Beethoven imitating the newly-invented metronome, in his Symphony #8.
Thursday September 18, 2008
Morning Classics
Tomorrow is "Talk Like a Pirate" day...we're getting ready this morning
(ARGH!) with Arthur Benjamin's "Jamaican Rhumba" from his Caribbean
pieces.
Wednesday September 17, 2008
Morning Classics
Edvard Grieg's "Holberg Suite" will be featured during this year's "Made in Vermont" Music Festival with the VSO. We'll hear it this morning along with Renee Fleming singing the plaintive "Ne andro lontana", from Catalani's "La Wally".
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Morning Classics
We'll hear from a brand new recording with cellist Matt Haimovitz, this morning - a string trio arrangement of the Bach "Goldberg Variations". And a listener request for Tchaikovsky: the lyrical Orchestral Suite #4, a tribute to Mozart.
Monday September 15, 2008
Morning Classics
On a morning when the calendar says mid-September, but the thermometer (and barometer!) says "tropical summer", we'll hear the Seasons by Glazunov. A little summer, a little fall, we have it covered.
Friday September 12, 2008
Morning Classics
We'll say adieu to summer with Haydn's "Farewell" symphony, and hear Soovin Kim perform from his brilliant recording of the Paganini Caprices for solo violin.
Thursday September 11, 2008
Morning Classics
Remembering September 11th.
Wednesday September 10, 2008
Morning Classics
This morning, a listener request for Tchaikovsky's lyrical "Serenade for Strings" - and, Lauretta makes a compelling case to be united with the man she loves, in the sweet aria "O mio babbino caro", from Puccini's opera "Gianni Schicchi". (How could dad turn her down, with a persuasive presentation like that!?)
Tuesday September 9, 2008
Morning Classics
We're moving right along this morning, with Paganini's "Moto perpetuo", and John Alden Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator"!
Monday September 8, 2008
Morning Classics
From the snappy sounds of Spanish castanets, in Massenet's "Le Cid" - to the sun-washed beaches of Southern California, in Martinu's "La Jolla" Sinfonietta...who needs to travel when you have VPR Classical?
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