by Kile Smith | Aug 1, 2020 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958). Symphony No. 3 “A Pastoral Symphony” (1921) Hi, it’s Kile Smith, and it’s the Fleisher Discoveries podcast, from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music and the Free Library of...
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2014 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday Jan. 4th at 5 pm John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951). Adventures in a Perambulator, excerpts. Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson. Mercury Living Presence 434319, Tr 1. 10:47 Ralph Vaughan Williams...
by Kile Smith | Feb 25, 2013 | American music, Chamber Music, new music
As if Sunday’s successes of Red-tail and Hummingbird weren’t enough, a drive from Swarthmore’s concert to Abington took me to the loveliest of Lenten recitals given at Holy Trinity Lutheran, to American Spirituals, Book One played by violinist James...
by Kile Smith | Nov 14, 2012 | CD Reviews, CDs, Choral music, church music, Classical music, Early Music, liturgical music, My CD Reviews, new music, Radio, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for WRTI, podcast with musical examples below. You can read all my CD reviews here. https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012-11-englishchurchmusic.mp3 The subtitle of this five-CD set is “1100-1965,” and this is, in fact, a new...
by Kile Smith | Jun 1, 2012 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012, 5-6 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Violin Concerto in D minor (Concerto Accademico) (1925). Kenneth Sillito, violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson. Chandos 8633, Tr 5-7. 16:50 Vaughan Williams. Symphony No. 4 in F minor...