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...
by Kile Smith | Mar 31, 2010 | Classical music, Radio, WRTI
My brief WRTI Newsletter description for the Good Friday broadcast: A 20-year-old steps on the stage to conduct a piece by an almost-forgotten organist, and the course of Western music is changed forever. In 1829 the St. Matthew Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach was...