Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Marlboro Month: Dominick Argento
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Dominick Argento’s "Six Elizabethan Songs" have a surprisingly baroque feel and sound, for being written in 1958. We’ll hear them this morning as part of VPR Classical’s "Marlboro Month" – in a 1998 Festival performance.Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Marlboro Month: Francois Couperin
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We’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Marlboro Music Festival with special live performances recorded over the Festival’s last dozen seasons or so. Listen in the 8am hour today for a performance of Couperin’s Concert #3 in a concert from August 8, 2008.Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Marlboro Month Begins!
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Each weekday for the next month we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Marlboro Music Festival with special live performances from their recent seasons! We’ll begin this morning in the 9am hour, with pianist/Festival founder Rudolf Serkin in a recording of Mozart.Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
It’s About Time
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Joan Tower’s timely work "Clocks" opens the morning’s music, and from there we move on to the "embittered clock of woe" in a Neapolitan madrigal, and Haydn’s "Clock" Symphony #101. Morning music starts at 8 – don’t be late!Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Bonjour, Paris
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It is Bastille Day, and that’s not the only focus. We’ll also enjoy summery selections by Gershwin, and Gotthard Odermatt (who??) – Gotthard Odermatt, a Swiss composer who’s dedicated a new work called "Summer" to oboist Albrecht Mayer. It’s on Mayer’s recent recording, "Bonjour Paris".Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Chanson De Matin
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Two Elgar "occasional" salon pieces serenade the morning, the "Chanson de Nuit" and the "Chanson de Matin" – lyrical nighttime and morning songs.Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
The Buzz
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Bumblebees and wasps buzz through this morning’s music, along with a piece by Ireland’s Hamilton Harty that was written just for July 12th.Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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We’ll make a stop in the fantastic world of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" during the morning’s music, with highlights from Henry Purcell’s opera "The Fairie Queen".Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
