Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Letter V Classical Radio this week

May 29
noon-4 p.m. EDT
1600-2000 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Glinka: “Jota aragonesa”
BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos)

Albéniz: “Iberia” – “El Corpus in Sevilla,”
“Málaga,” “Eritaña”
Marc-André Hamelin, piano (Hyperion)

Ginastera: “Variaciones concertantes”
Richmond Sinfonia/George Manahan (Elan)

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 in D major
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano & director
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (EMI Classics)

Beethoven: “Eroica Variations,” Op. 35
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano (Bis)

Ravel: “Valses nobles et sentimentales”
Alexandre Tharaud, piano (Harmonia Mundi France)

Schubert: Fantasy in C major, D. 934
Jennifer Koh, violin; Reiko Uchida, piano (Cedille)


Stravinsky: “Suite Italienne”
Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Péter Nagy, piano (ECM)

Past Masters:
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
in D major
Leonid Kogan, violin
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/Constantin Silvestri (EMI Classics)
(recorded 1959)

Rachmaninoff: “Étude-tableau” in E flat minor,
Op. 39, No. 5
Yuja Wang, piano (Deutsche Grammophon)