by Kile Smith | Feb 26, 2018 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday March 3rd, 5:00 to 6:00 pm… It’s been said that Edwin Fleisher did not like vocal or choral music. Whether a few people have told me this, or one person told me a few times, I can’t recall, but it explained...
by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, Feb. 3rd, 5 to 6 pm… There’s that video that’s made the rounds on YouTube for years, Leonard Bernstein not conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Finale of the Haydn Symphony No. 88. Right, not...
by Kile Smith | Jul 28, 2015 | Classical music, WRTI
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 27 Jul 2015.] Mahler once told Sibelius how big a symphony needs to be, but Mahler’s own second symphony, called the “Resurrection,” is even bigger. WRTI’s Kile Smith considers the Mahler 2nd, its themes of life and death…...
by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2014 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday October 4th at 5 pm Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Mahler. Suite from the Orchestral Works of Bach. Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bach, arr. Stokowski. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565....
by Kile Smith | Dec 1, 2011 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011, 5:00-6:00 p.m Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1907). London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult. Vanguard 1202, Tr 2. 14:02 Sibelius. Romance in C, Op. 42 (1904). Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi. Bis 252,...