Playlist: Classical
Compiled By: PRX Editors
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Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2 (Series)
Produced by WQXR
From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, a five-part Peabody award winning radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Season 2 features host Nadia Sirota with Meredith Monk, Kaija Saariaho, Ingram Marshall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Nico Muhly
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Most recent piece in this series:
Bonus Track: 'Viola Concerto: Part II' by Nico Muhly
From WQXR | Part of the Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2 series | 09:53
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Says Nadia Sirota, "Nico wrote the concerto in 2014, and in a lot of ways it's the fruit of 10 years of our working together. The piece is in three movements, and this movement, Part II, is sort of the emotional heart of the piece. It's soulful and colorful and I adore playing it.
At the end of the movement the viola line suffers a sort of massive emotional breakdown, which is then answered by a huge orchestral explosion, featuring a giant tam-tam (gong) and all sorts of low-brass rumbles. In the aftermath, individual members of the orchestra play small phrases independently of each other, finally reuniting in a wounded coda.
This is my favorite part of the concerto to play."
Classical Guitar Alive! (Series)
Produced by Tony Morris
Classical Guitar Alive is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is free to all stations.
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Most recent piece in this series:
23-28 Music by Bach, Carulli, Weiss, Elmer Bernstein, Sainz de la Maza
From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:57
TO: All Stations
FR: Tony Morris
DT: July 10, 2023
RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! 23-28 Music by Bach, Carulli, Weiss, Elmer Bernstein, Sainz de la Maza
Total length:58:57
INTRODUCTION:
Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude Los Romeros, guitar quartet
(Philips 412-609)
PROGRAM BEGINS:
Carulli: Sonata, op. 21 Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet
“Antique” (Paulines-Comep 1996) 16:56
Bach: Flute Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 Marina Piccinini, flute,
Brasil Guitar Duo
“Bach: Flute Sonatas” (Avie 2010) 11:35
Elmer Bernstein: Guitar Concerto Christopher Parkening, guitar,
London Symphony Orchestra, Elmer Bernstein, conductor
“Christopher Parkening: Elmer Bernstein: Concerto for Guitar” (EMI/Angel 2000) 21:43
Silvius Leopold Weiss: Chaconne in G minor Mark Anthony McGrath, 13-string guitar
“The Weiss Machine” (Mark Anthony McGrath 2015) 4:29
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza: Estudio in A Minor Franz Halasz, guitar
“Sainz de la Maza: Guitar Music” (Naxos 2014) 1:01
CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Carulli, film composer Elmer Bernstein, Weiss, and Eduardo Sainz de la Maza.
CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.
Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio
CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.
The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree (Series)
Produced by Candice Agree
There's no better way to know a country or a people than through its music. The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree invites everyone who has an interest in, a fascination of, and a love for the cultural life of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world to be entertained, enriched, and informed by this unique classical music program.
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Most recent piece in this series:
The Spanish Hour 2314: Songs and Laments of the Sephardim
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
The Spanish Hour celebrates Passover (evening to evening April 5-13, 2023:) the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. This week’s program features sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean, Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire performed by Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, New York Baroque Ensemble, and Alia Musica.
An American Stew
From KCME | 58:24
Michael Campion explores the diversity of American music with a potpourri of different kinds of works from different kinds of composers.
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Michael Campion explores the diversity of American music with a potpourri of different kinds of works from different kinds of composers.
Music and Conversation with Philip Glass
From The WFMT Radio Network | 58:44
To celebrate the incredibly influential American composer Philip Glass's 80th birthday, enjoy this music infused hour recorded last February when he was honored by his alma mater, the University of Chicago. WFMT host Kerry Frumkin speaks with him about his life in music, where he’s been, and what’s inspired him on his particular path.
Fiesta! (Series)
Produced by The WFMT Radio Network
Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners.
Most recent piece in this series:
FST 23-13: Music for the Ballet, 6/18/2023
From The WFMT Radio Network | Part of the Fiesta! series | 58:30
Many of the most formidable pieces of the last hundred years have been dedicated to the ballet or modern dance. Latin American music is not the exception. Fiesta will present some of the most beloved, magical and dramatic Latin American works for dance.