Classical Music Discoveries

Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859, with influential sets designed by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, Jean Émile Daran, Édouard Desplechin, and Philippe Chaperon. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gounod: Faust (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

French-American pianist Julia Den Boer today releases her second album, Kermès, on New Focus Recordings. The album's four stunning works by experimental female composers include Giulia Lorusso’s Déserts, Linda Catlin Smith’s The Underfolding, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Reminiscence, and Rebecca Saunders’ Crimson. Kermès Track List1. Giulia Lorusso — Déserts (2018) [15:02]2. Linda Catlin Smith — The Underfolding (2001) [20:58]3. Anna Thorvaldsdottir — Reminiscence (2017) [8:43]4. Rebecca Saunders — Crimson (2005) [18:22]Total Time: 63:05 Purchase the music (without talk) at:Julia Den Boer: Kermes (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supportin

Beautiful minimalistic music to relax and enjoy the beauties around you.Composed by Erland Cooper and Kathryn JosephTracklisting:A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverIts Loveliness IncreasesIt Will Never Pass Into NothingnessBut Still Will Keep a Bower Quiet for UsAnd a Sleep Full of Sweet DreamsAnd Health and Quiet BreathingWatch Erland's YouTube Video at:Erland Cooper - Never Pass Into Nothingness - YouTube Purchase the music (without talk) at:Never Pass Into Nothingness (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcas

The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin release their latest album Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 to celebrate the achievements of Florence Price in surmounting systemic barriers of African-Americans and women in classical music. Price came to prominence almost ninety years ago. The composer’s Symphony No. 1 was the first symphonic work by a Black woman to be played by a major American orchestra. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1404/Florence_Price%3A_Symphonies_1_and_3.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/do

The “extravagantly talented” (The New York Times) American organist Cameron Carpenter today digitally releases his first album on Decca Gold, a recording of J.S. Bach’s The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 juxtaposed with his own transcription of Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major, Opus 30, W45, "Romantic." Both works are performed on the International Touring Organ, the American digital concert organ designed by Cameron Carpenter. The album is available today digitally and will be released on CD at a date to be announced. Pre-Order and Stream Carpenter’s Bach & Hanson

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue and five acts, then reduced to four and an epilogue, written and composed by Arrigo Boito inspired by Goethe's Faust. The first performance took place in Milan, at the Teatro alla Scala, on March 5, 1868, conducted by Boito himself, but it ended in a sensational fiasco, perhaps due, in addition to the excessive length of the work, to the strongly ideological content of some episodes, then suppressed. The work was then reduced and reworked by the author, who among other things transposed the part of Faust for tenor, originally for baritone; moreover, the figure of Margaret assumes central importance in the context of Faust's saving drama. The new version was successfully staged at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna on October 4, 1875, conducted by Emilio Usiglio in the presence of the composer. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1403/Boito%3A_Mephistophele.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is spon

Trailblazing composer duo Hania & Dobrawa releases its much-anticipated debut album Inner Symphonies on Deutsche Grammophon. Polish composer-pianist-singer Hania Rani and composer-cellist Dobrawa Czocher, the two youngest composers ever signed to the label, combine piano, cello, and electronics on a genre-bending, a style-defining album of ten works that reflect the closeness of an artistic partnership that has continued to evolve since they first met in their early teens at music school in Gdańsk. Buy and Stream: https://dg.lnk.to/innersymphonies

In this broadcast, we preview Marie Osmond's upcoming December 10, 2021 album - Unexpected. The tracks previewed are:Nessun DormaUnexpected You can pre-order this release at: Amazon.com : marie osmond unexpected

Soprano Renée Fleming today releases Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, her new album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on Decca Classics. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the centrality of nature in Romantic-era songs and highlights the peril and fragility of the natural world today. Says Fleming, “This music begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now, in the Anthropocene, we see the effects of our own activity and the fragility of our environment. Nature has been so good to us: we have not been so good to nature.” Stream or Purchase: https://ReneeFleming.lnk.to/VONSo Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Tracklist 1. Kevin Puts – Evening* 2. Fauré – “Prison” from 2 Mélodies, Op.83 No. 1: 3. Hahn – “Les étoiles,” from 12 Rondels 4. Hahn – “L’Heure exquise,” from 7 Chansons grises 5. Fauré – “En Sourdine,” from 5 Mélodies, Op.58 6. Fauré – Rêve d’amour, Op.5 7. Liszt – S’il

The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, with the premiere scheduled for 1983. Corigliano and Hoffman took as the starting point for the opera the 1792 play La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother) by Pierre Beaumarchais. They took seven years to complete the opera, past the initial deadline. The opera received its premiere on December 19, 1991, at the Metropolitan Opera, with the production directed by Colin Graham. The premiere run of seven performances was sold out. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1402/Corigliano%3A_The_Ghosts_of_Versailles.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrand

Oct. 30, 2021 - We discovered (thanks to a listener) that the opera was incomplete.  We uploaded a COMPLETE version today. Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the play Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut (1821) by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, which itself was based on the short story The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori. The first performance took place on 29 March 1828 in Leipzig, where it was a hit. For a complete synopsis, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Vampyr Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1401/Marschner%3A_Der_Vampyr.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyo

The great Jascha Heifetz performs:Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in DMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Fritz Reiner conducts the Chicago SymphonyCharles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1400/The_World%27s_Most_Favorite_Violin_Concertos.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

 Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel, Richard Riddell, and Jerome Robbins. According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach (about Albert Einstein) and Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi). These three people – Akhenaten, Einstein, and Gandhi – were all driven by an inner vision that altered the age in which they lived, in particular Akhenaten in religion, Einstein in science, and Gandhi in politics.  Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1399/Glass%3A_Akhnaten.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show!  Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber.  @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFes

The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting. It is dedicated to Theodor Avé-Lallemant. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1398/Tchaikovsky%3A_Symphony_No._5_in_E_minor%2C_Op.64.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1396/Mozart%3A_Cos%C3%AC_fan_tutte%2C_ossia_La_scuola_degli_amanti_%28All_Women_Do_It%2C_or_The_School_for_Lovers%29%2C_K._588.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classical

A gift to CMD by the Rubenstein family.Performed by Artur RubinsteinConducted by Carlo Maria GiuliniChicago SymphonyRecorded in 1968RCA Red Seal Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1393/Schumann%3A_Piano_Concerto_in_A_minor%2C_Op._54_and_Novelettes%2C_Op._21%2C_Nos%2C_1_and_2.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com 

The producers of Classical Music Discoveries, Ken and Sandy Hedgecock, with friend Debra Martineau and pianist Jan Myers, perform 2 selections from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Children's Songbook - I Am a Child of God and Teach Me to Walk in the Light. This is a live recording.

Rossini composed La Cenerentola when he was 25 years old, following the success of The Barber of Seville the year before. La Cenerentola, which he completed in a period of three weeks, is considered to have some of his finest writing for solo voice and ensembles. Rossini saved some time by reusing an overture from La gazzetta and part of an aria from The Barber of Seville and by enlisting a collaborator, Luca Agolini, who wrote the secco recitatives and three numbers (Alidoro's "Vasto teatro è il mondo", Clorinda's "Sventurata! Mi credea" and the chorus "Ah, della bella incognita"). The facsimile edition of the autograph has a different aria for Alidoro, "Fa' silenzio, odo un rumore"; this seems to have been added by an anonymous hand for an 1818 production. For an 1820 revival in Rome, Rossini wrote a bravura replacement, "La, del ciel nell'arcano profondo". Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1395/Rossini%3A_La_Cenerentola.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show!

For the first time in history, 12 of the most wonderful violins ever made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), have traveled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album, 12 Stradivari, captures the individual characters of each instrument in specially curated music accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano at the piano.  12 Stradivari – Tracklist: Manuel de Falla: arr. Kreisler: Danse Espagnole from “La Vida Breve”Kreisler: LiebesleidKreisler: SyncopationHeuberger arr Kreisler: Midnight Bells (after Der Opernball)Suk arr Jaroslav Kocian: Píseň láska (Liebeslied/Song of Love)Clara Schumann: Romance nr 1 from 3 Romances for Violin and Piano, Op.22Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke for clarinet (viola/cello) and Piano, Op.73Vieuxtemps: Romance nr. 2 Désespoir from 3 Romances sans paroles, Op.7Tchaikovsky arr. Auer: Tchaikovsky arr Auer: Arie des Lensky (from Eugene Onegin)Szymanovski: La fontaine d’Aréthuse from Mythes (No 1

Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization. Varèse thought that "to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise", and he posed the question, "what is music but organized noises?ArcanaIntegralesIonisationZubin Mehta, conductorLos Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1390/Edgar_Var%C3%A8se.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmoni