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Compact Discoveries
Program Descriptions
in numerical order as of June 17, 2013 Click on the title to link to the complete
script.
1 Brazilian Beats 2
Discs for Dishwashing 3
The Tune That Drove Composers Wild (Part 1)
4 The Tune That Drove Composers Wild (Part 2)
5 The First Gershwin 6
The French Gershwin 7
The Cuban Gershwin 8
The Next Gershwin?
9 Best Music for Back Rubs
10 Fauré's Fiascos
11 Radio Revisited
12 Crazy about Kalinnikov
13 Leroy Anderson's Clever Musical Miniatures
15 Favorite Funeral Music
16 Hats Off to Coates
17 Music for Halloween (Pledge Event Version) 18
In Praise of Poulenc 19
Aaron Copland: The Brooklyn Cowboy
20 Controversial Comrade Kabalevsky 21
Viva Villa-Lobos!
22 Music for Hanukkah?
23 Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music
24 Wagner Without Words
25 A Symphony for Santa Claus
26 Neglected Saint-Saëns
27 Love Music, Part 1
28 Love Music, Part 2
29 Variations on Very Familiar Tunes
30 Ravel: The Composer as Pianist and Conductor
31 A Gershwin Tribute
32 Movie Concertos
33 One-Hit American Composers
34 More One-Hit American Composers
35 One-Hit French Composers
37 The Birds and the Bees 38
Summer Music
39 Leftover Birds
40 Music of "Rospighi"
41 Swan Songs
42 Sullivan Without Gilbert
43 From Borodin to Broadway 44 Name That
Tune! [no script available to prevent cheating!]
45 Musical Gardens
46 Music for Insomniacs
47 Classical Kids
48 The End 49
Opus 1
50 Joaquín Nin
51 Vocalise Variations
52 Tyzen Hsiao, the Chinese Rachmaninov
53 Chamber Music Palm Beach
54 From Norway to Broadway
55 James Brooks-Bruzzese
56 Symphonic Klezmer
57 The Buster Walk Jamboree
58 Richard Strauss, Homebreaker
59 Richard Strauss, Orchestrator
60 How to Get Kids into Classical
61 Swingin' Classics
62 From Classics to Carmen Cavallaro
63 Classic Ellington 64
Music for Autumn 65
Chanticleer 66
Dracula
67 Cécile Chaminade, Part 1
68 Cécile Chaminade, Part 2
69 Classical Tango
70 A Russian Winter 71
Tarantellas
72P Hidden Treasures
73P Favorite French Waltzes
74 Catchy Khachaturian, Part 1
75 Catchy Khachaturian, Part 2
76 Musical Beasts
77 More Musical Beasts
78 A Musical Voyage with Camille Saint-Saëns
79 Clara Schumann
80 Orchestral Paris
81 Orchestral London
82 Symphonic Rome
83 New York, New York
84 More Musical Cities
85 Bernstein for Orchestra
86 Latin-American Rhythms by Jewish-American Composers
87 Latin-American Rhythms by Latin-American Composers 88
René Touzet
89 The Romantic Patent Officer Manager
90 Thomas of Nazareth
91 Nazareth Encore! Religion inspired some great music, but food fed the creative juices of several composers who are featured on this hour. Fred Flaxman brings you first an appetizer on a public radio budget: Raisins and Almonds, the traditional Yiddish song. Then comes La Revue de Cuisine by Martinu, peas by Rossini and a last meal by Jacques Brel. For drinks, Tea for Two as arranged for large orchestra by Shostakovich and Rootbeer Rag by Billy Joel. Desserts include French Pastry by Hayman and Wedding Cake by Saint-Saëns. Listen Now! 93 Beethoven at His Happiest This serious composer's lighter side is featured in this hour. Music includes a bagatelle, the scherzo movements from three trios, the rondo movements from two piano concertos, excerpts from two violin sonatas, and the "Ode to Joy" ending from his Ninth Symphony. Listen Now! 94 Classic Happiness Includes Al Fresco, Intermezzo by Victor Herbert; "For He's Going to Marry Yum-Yum" from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan; a movement from Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G and his Gypsy Rondo; Smiles and Chuckles and The Laughing Vamp by the Six Brown Brothers, and an excerpt from Schubert's Octet in F for Strings and Winds, Op. 166, D. 803. Listen Now!
96 Classically Irish
98 Two Stravinsky Ballets in One Hour
101 More Carnival
Classics
104 More Classical
Disney
107 The Color of
Music, Part 1: Blue 108 The Color of Music, Part 2: The Competition Host Fred Flaxman serves as judge and jury for a mock competition to find the best compositions in his personal collection with colors in their titles. The colors include black, white, gray, brown, green, red, pink, silver and gold. The "winning" works are by Frederic Chopin, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Haydn Wood, Stephen Foster, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Leroy Anderson, Reinhold Glière, Victor Herbert, Henry Mancini, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Listen Now!
109 On the Right
Track
111 A CATalog of
Music, Part 2
113 A Bouquet of
Roses
116 Cartoon Classics 118
The Sweet Sounds of Suk, Part 2
121 Morricone's
Memorable Melodies 123 Spring
124 Music to Die For
125 Classic Beatles
126 More Classic Beatles
127 Pleasures of
Pierné 129 Arriaga Chances are, no matter how well you know classical music, that you are not familiar with the works of Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga. He was a Spanish child prodigy who didn't live long enough to become an adult, but you would never guess that by listening to his string quartets, two of which producer/host Fred Flaxman presents in this hour. Also presented is an overture to an opera Arriaga wrote at the age of 13, before he even had formal lessons in harmony. Listen Now! 130 Bloch-Busters The best of Ernst Bloch, including his Concerto Grosso No. 1, Schelomo, and the final movement from his Suite Modale. Dalea Atlas conducts the Atlas Camerata Orchestra in two of these three works. Schelomo features cellist Rocco Filippini with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Alexander Vedernikov. Listen Now! 131 A Classical Christmas Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you an hour of lesser known but beautiful Christmas compact disc discoveries, including Victor Hely-Hutchinson's A Carol Symphony, Philip Lane's Wassail Dances, Sleigh Ride by Frederick Delius, La Peregrinacion from Navidad Nuestra/Our Nativity by Ariel Ramirez, the Swedish carol Ritsch, Ratsch, Filibom!, Ave Maria by Charles Gounod (with a little help from J.S. Bach), and Christmas Dance and Carol by Vaughan Williams, performed by the Auréole Trio. Listen Now! 132 Melodious MacDowell Once one of the warhorses of the repertoire, Edward MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 has been unjustly neglected in recent years. In this program, this great romantic American work is performed by Thomas Tirino with the Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vassil Kazandjiev. Also in this hour is MacDowell's Suite No. 1 for Orchestra, Op. 42, with the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Takuo Yuasa, and the composer's most famous piano piece, To a Wild Rose, performed by James Barbagallo. Listen Now! 133 More Melodious MacDowell Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you the Romantic American composer's Piano Concerto No. 1, played by Thomas Tirino with the Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vassil Kazandjiev. Also in this hour is the Étude de Concert, Op. 36; three excerpts from the Second Modern Suite, Op. 14; Serenata, Op. 16; Hexentanz from Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 17; and the Hungarian Étude from Twelve Études, Op. 39. Listen Now! 134 Even More Melodious MacDowell Producer/host Fred Flaxman presents MacDowell's Second Piano Sonata as performed by Charles Fierro on a Delos compact disc; and the final movement of his Fourth Piano Sonata, three of four Forgotten Fairy Tales, and six of Twelve Virtuoso Studies, all performed by James Barbagallo on a Naxos CD. This is the last of three programs devoted to the music of this Romantic Period American composer. Listen Now! 135 Score 2 for Virgil The American composer Virgil Thomson wrote the scores for two Great Depression-era U.S. government propaganda films: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River. Fred Flaxman presents the first complete recordings made of this award-winning film music since the soundtracks were created in 1936 and 1937. The new all-digital Naxos CD is by Washiington, D.C.'s Post-Classical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez. Listen Now! 136 Introducing Sandrine Fred Flaxman's latest compact discoveries include the three CDs of the talented young French-American pianist Sandrine Erdely-Sayo. This hour will include works by Poulenc, Scriabin, Piazzolla, Debussy, Thalberg and Lázaro. Listen Now! 137 Americans in Paris An hour of music devoted to Americans who were influenced by or studied music in the City of Light, including George Gershwin, Walter Piston and Aron Copland. The music includes An American in Paris, The Incredible Flutist and Rodeo. Listen Now! 138 Classic Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold was known for his scores for several famous Hollywood movies. But he also excelled at creating romantic, melodious symphonic and chamber music. This hour will include his beautiful Violin Concerto, his incidental music to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and his Trio in D Major. Listen Now! 139 Glitzy Glazunov In this first of two hours devoted to the music of this Russian composer, producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents The Seasons, Concert Waltz No. 1, and Minstrel's Song, Op. 71. Listen Now! 140 More Glitzy Glazunov In this second of two hours devoted to the music of this Russian composer, producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents his Violin Concerto, his Five Novelettes and the "Polonaise" from his Ballet Scenes, Op. 52. Listen Now! 141 Fire and Smoke They say that where there's smoke, there's fire, but in music there is a lot more fire than smoke. Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you examples of both. Music includes the Ritual Fire Dance by de Falla, the Firebird Suite by Stravinsky, Dance of Spirits of Fire by Holst, Magic Fire Music by Wagner, Addinsell's Fire Over England Suite, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Kern as arranged by Frolov, and Smoke Rings sung by the Mills Brothers. Listen Now! 142 More Leroy Anderson The composer was born on June 29, 1908, making 2008 the 100th anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion, producer/host Fred Flaxman presents a second hour devoted completely to this composer's tuneful miniature orchestral pieces, without repeating any of the works heard in Program 13. Selections include Bugler’s Holiday, A Trumpeter’s Lullaby, Saraband, The Phantom Regiment, Serenata, Forgotten Dreams, Song of the Bells, The Sandpaper Ballet, The Penny Whistle Song, Mother’s Whistler, Promenade, Horse and Buggy, Home Stretch, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Anderson's Sousa-esque rendition of Meredith Wilson’s Seventy-Six Trombones from the Broadway musical The Music Man. Listen Now! 143 Moonlight For hundreds of years, moonlight has served as inspiration for many composers. In this hour producer/host Fred Flaxman presents moonlight-inspired music by Glenn Miller, Beethoven, Debussy, Robin Milford, Charles Lucièn Lambert Sr., Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Hamilton Harty, and Charles Davidson, as well as a Russian folk song called Such a Moonlit Night. Listen Now! 144 More Moon Music So much music has been inspired by the moon that Producer-Host Fred Flaxman decided to present a second hour of the best of it. He draws on classical music, popular classics and jazz to do so. The composers include everyone from Elgar and Tchaikovsky to Irving Berlin. The entertaining hour even includes a spiritual and a couple of quizes for the listeners. Listen Now! 145 Sunrise, Sunshine, Sunset Producer/Guide Fred Flaxman presents a wide variety of classical music, semi-classical and jazz inspired by sunrise, sunshine and sunset. Selections include Glenn Miller's Sunrise Serenade, with which the hour begins and ends, Sunrise and Sunset from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite, Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison of the Beatles, performed by cellist Ofra Harnoy with the Armin Electric Strings, Irving Berlin's I've Got the Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night sung by Dean Martin, Cloud and Sunshine by the English composer Frederic Cliffe, Fritz Kreisler's transcription of Rimsy-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun, Lennon and McCartney's I'll Follow the Sun performed by The King's Singers, On the Sunny Side of the Street played by the Michael Rose Orchestra with the Rosebuds, Irving Berlin's Some Sunny Day sung by Bing Crosby, and English composer Roger Quilter's Summer Sunset. Listen Now! 146 A Leroy Anderson Christmas This hour features recordings issued by Naxos in celebration of the 100th anniversary in 2008 of the birth of this American master of the short-form orchestral piece. Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Anderson's A Christmas Festival, Suite of Carols for Brass Choir, Suite of Carols for String Orchestra and Suite of Carols for Woodwind Ensemble. The hour ends with two versions of Anderson's Sleigh Ride. The first is with lyrics added by Mitchell Parish as sung by Johnny Mathis. The second is Anderson's original version for orchestra alone. Listen Now! 147 Classic Dreams Throughout the ages composers have been inspired by dreams to write music. This hour opens and closes with Leroy Anderson's Forgotten Dreams and includes the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Winter Dreams symphony, Liszt's Liebesträume No. 3, Schumann's Träumerei, Dykstra's Sweet Daydreams, Joyce's Dreaming and Dream of Autumn, and three dream songs sung by Bing Crosby. Listen Now! 148 Classical Reveries Dreams take place when you're sleeping; reveries when you're awake. Both have inspired composers. In this hour producer/host Fred Flaxman presents musical daydreams by Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Schütt, Rubinstein, Moszkowski, Mason, Leoncavallo, and Hill. WARNING: Listening to classical reveries while driving may be hazardous to your health! Listen Now! 149 The Maltese Composer The tuneful, folk-music influenced music of Maltese composer Charles Camilleri. Works presented include the Malta Suite, Concertino No. 4 ("Summer Nights in Malta"), Four Legends, and the Overture to the Knights of Malta Ballet Suite. Listen Now! 150 Tuneful Contemporaires This is the program for those who think that modern music is all atonal and tuneless. It includes immediately enjoyable, melodious pieces by American composers G. Bush (Geoffrey, not George), Joseph Horovitz, and William Bland (who does not live up to his name), and British composer Howard Blake. These are true compact discoveries! Listen Now! 151 Famous Lovers: Romeo & Juliet In this first of two programs devoted to "Famous Lovers" in classical music, producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents the love scene from Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, both performed by the Oregon Symphony conducted by James DePreist, and two pieces from Prokofiev's three Romeo and Juliet suites performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavo Järvi. Listen Now! 152 More Famous Lovers Producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents music from Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, Orpheus and Euridyce by Gluck, Pelléas and Mélisande by Fauré and Daphnis and Chloé by Ravel. Listen Now! 153 Winter Producer/Guide Fred Flaxman uses a big mixture of styles, periods and instrumentation to illustrate "Winter" in music. Included is music by Lully, Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael, Julie Styne and Sammy Cahn, Ronald Binge, Franz Liszt, William Alwyn, Selim Palmgren, Claude Debussy, Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith, Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Performing artists include Daniel Barenboim, Bing Crosby with Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, Chanticleer, Natalie Cole with the Vienna Symphony, and bamboo flutist Chen Yue. Songs include In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening; Baby, It's Cold Outside; Let It Snow!; and Winter Wonderland. Listen Now! 154 The Pleasures of Ponce Although Mexican composer Manuel Ponce was a 20th Century composer, dying in 1948, his music is romantic and tuneful to the core, reminiscent of his 19th Century predecessors. In this hour Fred Flaxman presents Ponce's Piano Concerto, Balada Mexicana, Gavota, Dance of the Ancient Mexicans, Estrelita, Mazurca No. 23, Juventud, Souvenir and Quimera. Performers include pianists Jorge Federico Osorio and Eva Suk, and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Bátiz. Listen Now! 155 The Romantic Piano An hour of uninterrupted, beautiful, romantic piano music by Chopin, Scriabin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, MacDowell, Ravel, Debussy, Gershwin, Ginestera, Lai, Suk, Touzet and Villa-Lobos. Click on the program's title to access the playlist with performers' names. Listen Now! 156 Independence Day Designed for broadcast on or shortly before July 4, this program features off-the-beaten-track music for the occasion, including Morton Gould's American Salute and his "Star-Spangled Overture" from American Ballads, "Celebration - Fourth of July" from Star-Spangled Symphony by Don Gillis, Henri Vieuxtemps' Yankee Doodle Variations, Leoncavallo's Yankee March, Three American Dances by Henry Gilbert, The Union by Gottschalk, and America Medley by Leonard Bernstein. Listen Now! 157 A Frankly Franck Sampler Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman selected his picks for the very best music by the Belgian/French composer César Franck for this hour. The program includes a complete performance of Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, and movements from the Violin Sonata in A Major, Psyché, and the Symphony in D Minor. Performers include pianist François-Joël Thiollier, the Arnhem Philharmonic, violinist Sergey Khachatryan, pianist Lusine Khachatryan, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Listen Now! 158 The Threepenny Opera Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman gives the history of the famous Theater de Lys production of this unusual Kurt Weill "opera for beggars" while bringing listeners through the score, song by song, using the original cast recording. Listen Now! 159 Musical Devils Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman discarded many devil-inspired pieces in his search for the ones that are the most enjoyable on first hearing, because most listeners will not have heard most of these Compact Discoveries before. They include works by Saeverud, Dompierre, Herrmann, Morricone, Cassado, Rodrigo, Tartini, Stravinsky, Schubert and Vaughan-Williams. The devil is heard dancing in The Devil's Reel, The Devil's 5-Hop, Swing Your Partner from The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Dance of the Green Devil, The Devil's Dance, Satan's Dance of Triumph and The Devil's Sequidillas. This is one Halloween program that won't scare anyone! Listen Now!  Back
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Swingling Mozart
In this first of three one-hour programs featuring the Swingle Singers, producer/host Fred Flaxman plays Mozart's Symphony No. 40, alternating between the Swingle Singers' unique a cappella arrangements of each movement from their Virgin Classics CD and the original Mozart score as performed by the Tafelmusik Orchestra conducted by Bruno Weil from an Analekta compact disc. The hour starts with the Turkish March from Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, first performed by the Swingle Singers, then by German pianist Lars Vogt on an EMI recording. The program concludes with the Swingle Singer's interpretation of Mozart's Andante from his Piano Concerto No. 21. Listen Now! 161 Swingling Bach In this second of three one-hour programs featuring the Swingle Singers, producer/host Fred Flaxman plays some of Bach's--and their--greatest hits: the Little Organ Fugue, the Chorale from Cantata No. 140, the first movement from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Sheep May Safely Graze from Cantata BWV 208, Badinerie from Suite No. 2, Air on a G String from Suite No. 3, Blute nur from St. Matthew Passion, and Et resurrexit from Bach’s B-Minor Mass. Listen Now! 162 Swingling Encores The third and final hour devoted to the music of the Swingle Singers paired with the original compositions by Rossini, Debussy, Gershwin, Sondheim, and Tchaikovsky. Listen Now! 163 Goldmark Gold Karl Goldmark may be considered a one-hit composer these days, and that may not be fair, but that one warhorse is his Rustic Wedding Symphony, a thoroughly enjoyable work from start to finish. You can hear all five movements in this hour plus the finale of Goldmark's Piano Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 30. Listen Now! 164 Goldmark Silver Fred Flaxman presents Karl Goldmark's Violin Concerto (which was once his most popular work), the first movement of his Violin Sonata, and a romantic piano piece called Quiet Hope. Listen Now! 165 A Broadway Valentine Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman plays his favorite love songs from Broadway musicals while you play "Name That Musical!" Listen Now! 166 Variations on Scott Joplin Rags The tunes are The Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners, The Rag-Time Dance, and The Entertainer. The performers include pianists Scott Joplin (from piano rolls), André Previn, Richard Glazier, Joshua Rifkin, Benjamin Loeb and John Arpin; violinist Itzhak Perlman; and the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble conducted by Gunther Schuller. Listen Now! 167 More Scott Joplin Variations Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman brings you multiple versions of Sun Flower Slow Drag, The Cascades, Sugar Cane Rag, The Chrysanthemum, Heliotrope Bouquet, and Elite Syncopations. Performers include the Southland Stingers, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Richard Glazier, Joshua Rifkin, the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Benjamin Loeb, and John Arpin. Listen Now! 168 Modern Melodies Lots of folks are prejudiced against modern "classical" music. That's because the music world went through a period when many contemporary composers wrote atonal, dissonant and altogether tuneless music. But now living composers are returning to writing music lay listeners can enjoy on first hearing, and a selection of these pieces is presented in this hour. The program includes works by James Cohn, Phil Rosheger, Nikolai Kapustin, Michael Sahl, Lita Grier, and Sandrine Erdely-Sayo. Listen Now! 169 Grofé's Orchestral Suites In this first of two hours devoted to the work of the American composer/orchestrator/arranger/pianist, Ferde Grofé, producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents Grofé's original orchestral suites. The most famous of these compositions, The Grand Canyon Suite, is presented in its entirety. Then there are movements from The Mississippi Suite, Hollywood Suite, and the Niagara Falls Suite. Listen Now! 170 Gershwin by Grofé In this second of two hours devoted to the work of the American composer/orchestrator/arranger/pianist, Ferde Grofé, producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents Grofé's orchestrations for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra of works by George Gershwin. They are recreated by Hamonie Ensemble / New York conducted by Steven Richman, and include his original orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue, Somebody Loves Me (which is also heard with Grofé playing his own piano arrngement), Sweet and Low-Down, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise, The Man I Love, and Fascinating Rhythm. Listen Now! 171 The Music of Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin wrote the music for many of his own films. Lyrics were often added to these romantic tunes and the songs went to to become huge hits. Producer/guide Fred Flaxman presents four different versions of "Smile" from Modern Times, plus music from The Gold Rush, Limelight, City Lights, A King in New York, A Dog's Life, and The Countess from Hong Kong. Performances are by Michel Villard and his Orchestra, I Salonisti, Itzhak Perlman with the Boston Pops conducted by John WIlliams, pianist Susanne Kessel, tenor David Hobson with Sinfonia Australis conducted by Guy Noble, andthe City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis. Listen Now! 172 Tunes for Bassoons This hour of lively, catchy melodies includes two versions of Carl Maria von Weber's Andante and Hungarian Rondo, Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Grand Concerto in F Major for Bassoon and Orchestra, Camille Saint-Saëns' Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, and Francisco Mignone's Concertino for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra. Performers include bassoonists Frank Morelli and Nadina Mackie Jackson, the Orpheus and Toronto Chamber Orchestras, conductor Nicholas McGegan, and pianist Gilbert Kalish. The recordings are all from MSR Classics. Listen Now! 173 Rodgers without Hammerstein, Part 1 This hour features two ballets by the famous composer of Broadway musicals, Richard Rodgers: Ghost Town and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Producer/host Fred Flaxman also presents "The Sweetest Sounds" from No Strings, a musical for which Rodgers wrote the lyrics as well as the score. Listen Now! 174 Rodgers without Hammerstein, Part 2 Orchestral renditions of music from four of Richard Rodgers' most famous musicals: Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and Carousel. The music from Oklahoma! was arranged by master orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett and is performed by the Orchestra of the Americas conducted by Paul Freeman. Selections from South Pacific and The King and I are performed by Richard Hayman and His Orchestra. The hour concludes with Carousel: A Symphonic Portrait, arranged by master orchestrator and composer Morton Gould and performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri. Listen Now! 175 The Sad Story of Marcel Tyberg He wrote symphonies with the power of Mahler. He wrote popular rumbas, tangos, and waltzes. He was a Catholic who played the organ in churches, but because he was 1/16th Jewish on his mother's side, the Nazis exterminated him in Auschwitz in 1944. JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in the first recording of Tyberg's Symphony No. 3 in D Minor. Filling out the hour are the final two movements of his romantic Piano Trio in F Major. Listen Now! 176 Alan Shulman Tuneful, romantic music by an unjustly overlooked 20th Century American composer. Pieces performed include his Theme and Variations for Viola and Orchestra, Rendezvous for Clarinet and Piano, Cod Liver 'Ile for Violin and Piano (as performed by Jascha Heifetz), Homage to Erik Satie, Latin Serenade, Serenade for Cello and Piano, The Bop Gavotte (played by the NBC Concert Orchestra), Song of the Moon Festival in the Woods, and Theme and Variations for Viola and Piano. Listen Now! 177 John Williams, Part 1 Music by America's most famous contemporary composer of film scores. Music includes: Suite: Schindler's List for Violin and Orchestra, piano and piano quintet versions of the theme from Schindler's List, a Debussy/Satie-like piano arrangement of E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, "The Raiders March" from Raiders of the Lost Ark, "Sean's Theme" from Minority Report, Jurassic Park, and Elegy for Cello and Orchestra. Performers include cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Denver Brass, pianist Michael Chertock, and the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne conducted by Thomas Rösner with violinist Alexandre da Costa. Listen Now! 178 John Williams, Part 2 This second hour of music by John Williams includes suites from Star Wars and Harry Potter as performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel. Listen Now! 179 Sergei Lyapunov Producer/Presenter Fred Flaxman present two works by this Russian romantic composer: Sextet, Opus 63, and Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes for Piano and Orchestra. Listen Now! 180 Cinema Concertante The Kurpfälzische Chamber Orchestra under Frank Zacher with pan flutist Ulrich Herkenhoff plays beautiful arrangements of film music by Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Henry Mancini and others. Listen Now! 181 Playing Grieg Like Grieg Norwegian pianist/musicologist Sigurd Slåttebrekk carefully studied all nine of the acoustic recordings that Edvard Grieg made in Paris in 1903 of his own piano pieces, enabling Slåttebrekk to play Grieg in the same manner as the composer. The music includes several of Grieg's Lyric Pieces, three movements of his Piano Sonata in E Minor, and the entire Piano Concerto. Listen Now! 182 Jazz Concertos American concertos of the Jazz Age inspired by the success of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The music includes Harry Reser's Suite for Banjo and Orchestra, James Price Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody, and Dana Suesse's Concerto in Three Rhythms. Performers include the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg, pianists Michael Gurt and Gary Hammond, and banjoist Don Vappie. Listen Now! 183 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz If you've never heard
of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, blame it on his love of
skiing, not his ability to create beautiful music.
This very talented, late Romantic Polish composer
wrote some gorgeous music before being killed in
an avalanche at 33, abruptly and tragically ending
his promising career in 1909. His Violin Concerto
and Serenade
are presented in this hour. Listen Now!
184 Jesús Guridi Fred Flaxman presents three tuneful pieces by this Spanish Basque composer: Ten Basque Melodies for Orchestra, Basque Images for Choir and Orchestra, and Don Quixote's Adventure. The performances are all by the Basque National Orchestra conducted by Miguel A. Gomez Martinez. Listen Now! 185 Lee Actor Two melodious, rhythmic, colorfully orchestrated concertos and a "Dance Rhapsody" by this multi-talented, very much alive-and-kicking American composer. Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman recounts the unusual dual career of this Denver, Colorado native. Despite his last name, one of those careers has never been acting. You'll hear Actor's 2009 Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, performed by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor with Debra Richtmeyer as soloist; his Dance Rhapsody; and his Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, performed by Karol Nitron with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Listen Now! 186 The Best of the Best of Karl Jenkins This hour includes Jenkins' infectious tune for the "Diamonds are Forever" TV ad, his hilarious tango based on themes from Beethoven, and excerpts from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace and the Requiem. Listen Now! 187 Artur Lemba Fred Flaxman introduces two beautiful, romantic works by this Estonian composer: his Piano Concerto No. 1 and his Symphony in C-Sharp Minor. Listen Now! 188 Michel Legrand Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman devotes an hour to the beautiful, melancholy, unforgettable, romantic melodies of the contemporary French composer, pianist, conductor, singer, recording artist, and collector of awards: Michel Legrand. Includes excerpts from his music for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Summer of '42, and Yentl. Performers include Michel Legrand (as both pianist and singer), Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, David Hobson, Sinfonia Australis conducted by Guy Noble, pianist Danielle Laval, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo conducted by Pascal Verrot. Listen Now! 189 The Best Video Game Music The 58-minute program features the London Symphony Orchestra playing classical orchestrations of the best-known video game themes, including Legend of Zelda, Tetris, Super Mrio Bros., Angry Birds, Halo 3, Advent Rising, Call of Duty - Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy VIII, Uncharted - Drake's Fortune, Metal Gear Solid, Battlefield 2, and Bioshock. Listen Now! 190 Rachel Barton Pine A tragic accident when this child prodigy was 20 did not at all put an end to her highly successful career. The program features her début with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from a live TV/radio simulcast when she was just 10, and her discussing her career then and now. Listen Now! 191 William Grant Still The life and music of a highly successful African-American composer. Music features his Afro-American Symphony and his symphonic poem, Africa. The Fort Smith Symphony is conducted by John Jeter. Listen Now! 192 More Still Three more works by American composer William Grant Still on this second program in a series of three devoted to his music. Includes Wood Notes from 1947, his Symphony No. 2 in G Minor ("Song of a New Race") from 1937, and three of the four movements of his Symphony No. 3 ("The Sunday Symphony"). John Jeter conducts the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Symphony. Listen Now! 193 Still More Still The final hour of three devoted to this American composer features two of his symphonies (Nos. 4 and 5) and his Poem for Orchestra. John Jeter leads the Fort Smith Symphony. Listen Now! 194 Dancing Pianos Dance music for piano by Shostakovich, Ginastera, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos, Brahms, Satie, Chopin, and Albéniz, performed by the British pianist Kathryn Stott. Listen Now! 195 Strange Musical Animals Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballpoint Pen-quins. These delightful poems, written and read by Jack Prelutsky, are accompanied by the music of Lucas Richman with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. The program also includes new poems by Prelutsky to accompany Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, from the same San Diego Symphony CD. Listen Now! 196 Yours, Anne Producer/host Fred Flaxman presents the complete, original off-Broadway cast recording of this musical drama based on The Diary of Anne Frank. Music by Michael Cohen. Libretto by Enid Futterman. Listen Now! 197 Robert Fuchs's Serenades, Part 1 The Austrian composer Robert Fuchs taught composition to Mahler, Wolf, Enescu, Sibelius and many others. He also composed beautiful, if neglected, music himself. Compact Discoveries guide Fred Flaxman presents the first two of Fuchs's five serenades for string orchestra in this hour, and the other three in hour number two. Listen Now! 198 Robert Fuchs's Serenades, Part 2 The second hour of serenades includes Fuchs's Serenades 3 and 4 in their entirety and the first movement of his Serenade No. 5. The Cologne Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Christian Ludwig. Listen Now! 199 Marvelous Movements Marvelous movements from classical pieces that most people -- even classical music lovers -- don’t know, but would probably like if they heard them. Some are by little-known composers, but most are little-known pieces by very famous composers. Listen Now! Back to top200
Around the World in 60 Minutes
Using classical, international popular, folk music, and jazz, producer/presenter Fred Flaxman celebrates this 200th Compact Discoveries program by taking a musical trip to 16 countries: Canada, the U.S., Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Japan, Greece, the Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden, Norway, England, France, and Spain. Artists featured include Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà, Ella Fitzgerald, Trio Azteca, Paula Robison, Christina Pluhar, Jean-Pierre Rampal, the Soviet Army Chorus, Öjebokören, Anne Sofie Von Otter, and Jacques Brel. Listen Now! 201 Jacques Brel is Dead but not Gone as His Songs Live Forever Fred Flaxman tells the story of Jacques Brel while playing eight of his most famous songs twice -- the first time in English as sung by the original cast of "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris;" the second time in French as sung by Jacques Brel himself. The songs include Marathon (Les Flamandes), Madeleine, Mathilde, Marieke, Brussels (Bruxelles), If We Only Have Love (Quand on a que l'amour), Amsterdam, and Carousel (La Valse a Mille Temps). Listen Now! 202 Musical Rivers The Blue Danube Waltz serves to open this hour of music inspired by rivers, including the Mississippi, Hudson, Shenandoah, Swanee, and Moldau. Paul Robeson sings four songs on the theme. Listen Now! 203 Musical Mountains Classical, popular, folk, and Broadway music inspired by mountains. Listen Now! 204 The Music of James Cohn Tuneful contemporary American pieces, including Miniatures for Orchestra, A Grecian Festival, the "Carnival" movement from Evocations: Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet and Strings, The Goldfinch Variations, and "Theme and Variations" from Sonata Romantica. Fred Flaxman hosts. Listen Now! 205 Living American Composers Melodious, immediately enjoyable music by serious, living American composers who know how to write a good tune and to please listeners. The music includes Green Places by Gary Schocker, the Cantata for the Children of Terezin by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, and Goyescana: Concerto for Guitar by Michael Colina. Performers include guitarist Michael Andriaccio, the London Symphony Orchestra, soprano Oxnaya Oleskaya, the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra and Singers, flutist Carla Auld, and the Beauty in America Orchestra. Listen Now! 206 More Living American Composers Another hour devoted to proving that all the great melodies were not written by composers of the past. There are living American composers who know how to write catchy tunes! The proof includes Reflective Rag by Judith Lang Zaimont, Voyage to a New Land by Steven Giammarino, Discover the Wild by Kenneth Fuchs, Down the Ladder to Sleep by Timothy Crist, two songs by Nicholas White, and Sonata for Brass Quintet by John Cheetham. Listen Now! 207 Porgy and Bess Various interpretations of music from George Gershwin's opera, starting with Robert Russell Bennett’s Symphonic Picture, continuing with Igor Alexandrovich Frolov’s Concert Fantasy on Themes from “Porgy and Bess” for two violins and piano, and concluding with songs from the opera as played by the Barcelona Clarinet Quartet and sung by Maureen McGovern, William Warfield, and Leontyne Price. Listen Now! 208 Déodat de Séverac The piano music of this impressionistic French composer has been unjustly neglected since his death at 38 in 1921, but several recordings have recently been issued of his music. Some of them are sampled in this hour. Listen Now! 209 Chopin's Chamber Music Chopin wrote very little chamber music, and most of it fits in this hour: his cello sonata and piano trio. Listen Now! 210 Lise de la Salle The extraordinary, young, French pianist plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1. Listen Now! 211 Hollywood Musical Hits An hour of the greatest hits from Hollywood musicals. Songs include Cheek to Cheek, Over the Rainbow, Easter Parade, Anything You Can Do, Ol’ Man River, Singin’ in the Rain, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, Maria, and Seventy-Six Trombones. The singers include Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, William Warfield, Gene Kelly, Gordon MacRae, Marni Nixon, Giorgio Tozzi, Maurice Chevalier, Jim Bryant, and Robert Preston. Listen Now! 212 Hollywood's Greatest Themes Fred Flaxman presents some of the greatest theme music from Hollywood movies, starting in 1939 with Gone with the Wind, and finishing in 1993 with Schindler's List. In between you'll hear the themes from Laura, The High and the Mighty, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Summer Place, Exodus, The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther, Doctor Zhivago, Love Story, Summer of '42, and Star Wars. Listen Now! 213 Oscar-Winning Songs Fourteen Academy-Award-winning popular classics as sung by Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Lionel Richie, and others. The music includes Moon River... Over the Rainbow... The Way You Look Tonight...Whatever Will Be, Will Be... Born Free... The Windmills of Your Mind… You Light Up My Life; and Fame. Listen Now! |
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