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Harp Concertino

  • Composer:Germaine Tailleferre
  • Conductor:JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble:Women's Philharmonic
  • Soloists:
    • Gillian Benet, harp
  • Koch 7169

Schedule for March 18, 2024

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5:01 AM
  • Nocturne No. 4
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Mozzafiato
  • Sony 62878
5:12 AM
  • Gaelic Symphony
  • Composer: Amy Beach
  • Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 559139
5:54 AM
  • My Lagan Love
  • Composer: Traditional Irish
  • Soloists: Barry Douglas, piano
  • Chandos 10821
6:01 AM
  • Nonet for Strings and Winds
  • Composer: Louise Farrenc
  • Soloists: Philippe Bernold, flute
  • Naive 5033
6:32 AM
  • Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 66342
6:50 AM
  • Nocturne No. 13
  • Composer: Gabriel Faure
  • Soloists: Louis Lortie, piano
  • Chandos 20149
7:01 AM
  • Dawn
  • Composer: Heino Eller
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish National Orchestra
  • Soloists: John Digney, oboe
  • Chandos 24126
7:10 AM
  • Wesendonck-Lieder (Wesendonk Songs): Traume (Dreams)
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Soloists: Svetlin Roussev, violin
  • Naive 8122
7:15 AM
  • Music for a Young Prince: Dreams
  • Composer: Godfrey Ridout
  • Conductor: Victor Feldbrill
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
  • Centrediscs 3890
7:25 AM
  • String Quartet No. 5
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Prague Quartet
  • DG 429193
8:01 AM
  • Nocturne and Allegro Scherzando
  • Composer: Philippe Gaubert
  • Soloists: Robert Langevin, flute
  • Bridge 9555
8:09 AM
  • Lemminkainen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala)
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Susanna Malkki
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Bis 2638
9:01 AM
  • Spring
  • Composer: Gregory Brown
  • Conductor: Eric Dudley
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Spring Ensemble
  • Navona 5989
9:06 AM
  • Sakura, Sakura
  • Composer: Traditional Japanese
  • Soloists: Xuefei Yang, guitar
  • EMI 70714
9:13 AM
  • Exaltation of Larks
  • Composer: Norman Dello Joio
  • Conductor: Edvard Tchivzhel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Atlantic Sinfonietta
  • Koch 7167
9:45 AM
  • Quartet No. 3
  • Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
  • Sony 52524
10:06 AM
  • Waltz No. 4 "Valse brillante"
  • Composer: Frederic Chopin
  • Soloists: Maurizio Pollini, piano
  • DG 11939
10:09 AM
  • Don Quixote: Grand Pas de Deux
  • Composer: Leon Minkus
  • Conductor: Richard Bonynge
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • London/Decca 433862
10:18 AM
  • Mischief
  • Composer: Stephanie Curcio
  • Soloists: Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp
  • Lavender Harp 200
10:21 AM
  • The Little Trifles (Les petits riens)
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Philips 422525
10:43 AM
  • Dolly Suite
  • Composer: Gabriel Faure
  • Soloists: Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
  • Hyperion 68331
11:03 AM
  • Minuet in Blue
  • Composer: Ron Goodwin
  • Conductor: Ron Goodwin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223518
11:06 AM
  • Canon
  • Composer: Johann Pachelbel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  • DG 429390
11:11 AM
  • In the Mountains: Sunny Day
  • Composer: Josef Foerster
  • Conductor: Hermann Baumer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra
  • Dabringhaus 6321493
11:17 AM
  • Sinfonia
  • Composer: Johann Christian Bach
  • Conductor: David Zinman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
  • Philips 442275
11:27 AM
  • Cringlemire Garden
  • Composer: Ruth Gipps
  • Conductor: Douglas Bostock
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim
  • CPO 555457
11:33 AM
  • Concerto for Two Flutes
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Conductor: Barthold Kuijken
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academia Montis Regalis
  • Soloists: Barthold Kuijken, flute
  • Opus 111 30298
11:41 AM
  • Concerto No. 3
  • Composer: Tomaso Albinoni
  • Conductor: Simon Standage
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90
  • Chandos 663
11:49 AM
  • Concert Piece
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Pinchas Zukerman, violin
  • Philips 420168
12:01 PM
  • Symphony No. 1: Menuetto
  • Composer: Louise Farrenc
  • Conductor: Christoph Konig
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: European Soloists, Luxembourg
  • Naxos 574094
12:06 PM
  • Joyous March
  • Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier
  • Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 9765
12:10 PM
  • Italian Serenade
  • Composer: Hugo Wolf
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Musici
  • Philips 438748
12:19 PM
  • Suite of Dances
  • Composer: Florence Price
  • Conductor: John Jeter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
  • Naxos 559920
12:23 PM
  • Sleeping Beauty: Bluebird pas de deux
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish National Orchestra
  • Chandos 8360
12:30 PM
  • Trumpet Concerto
  • Composer: Johann Hummel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: German Chamber Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Alison Balsom, trumpet
  • EMI 16213
12:49 PM
  • Platee: Entrance of Mercury
  • Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Conductor: Jeanne Lamon
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Tafelmusik
  • Tafelmusik 1001
12:51 PM
  • Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 573839
1:01 PM
  • Humoreske
  • Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vento Chiaro
  • Ongaku 24120
1:06 PM
  • Carnival Overture
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Zubin Mehta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
  • Sony 44923
1:17 PM
  • Dreamweaver: Dreamsong
  • Composer: Ola Gjeilo
  • Conductor: Rupert Gough
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Grace Davidson, soprano
  • London/Decca 4854827
1:21 PM
  • Filles de l'Elysee
  • Composer: Paul Brantley
  • Soloists: Laura Metcalf, cello
  • Dorian 92255
1:27 PM
  • A Toi (To You) Waltz
  • Composer: Emil Waldteufel
  • Conductor: Erich Kunzel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
  • Moss Music 10025
1:35 PM
  • Clarinet Concerto: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: George Szell
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
  • Soloists: Robert Marcellus, clarinet
  • Sony 75944
1:45 PM
  • Song of the Spinning Wheel
  • Composer: Mel Bonis
  • Soloists: Francois Dumont, piano
  • Bru Zane 2006
1:48 PM
  • Gayane Ballet Suite
  • Composer: Aram Khachaturian
  • Conductor: John Williams
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Pops Orchestra
  • Philips 426247
2:00 PM
  • Symphony: 1st movement
  • Composer: Antonio Rosetti
  • Conductor: Matthias Bamert
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players
  • Chandos 9567
2:08 PM
  • Parisiana: Pas de Deux
  • Composer: Germaine Tailleferre
  • Soloists: Quynh Nguyen, piano
  • Music & Arts 1306
2:13 PM
  • Symphony No. 97
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Frans Bruggen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the 18th Century
  • Philips 434921
2:46 PM
  • Ma vlast (My Country): From Bohemia's Woods and Fields
  • Composer: Bedrich Smetana
  • Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Pentatone 7203
3:01 PM
  • Piano Trio No. 9: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio
  • Philips 438948
3:06 PM
  • Canzon Noni Toni
  • Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
  • Sony 62353
3:10 PM
  • Sisyphus in the Big City
  • Composer: Ricardo Herz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sphinx Virtuosi
3:19 PM
  • Symphonic Poem No. 2 "Tasso, Lament and Triumph"
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Conductor: Kurt Masur
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  • EMI 64850
3:41 PM
  • Overture, Scherzo and Finale
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Seattle Symphony
  • Delos 3084
4:01 PM
  • Guitar Sonata: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Ferdinando Carulli
  • Soloists: Richard Savino, guitar
  • Naxos 553301
4:06 PM
  • Slavonic Dance No. 1
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Ivan Fischer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Philips 464601
4:12 PM
  • Mazurka No. 21
  • Composer: Maria Szymanowska
  • Soloists: Anna Ciborowska, piano
4:15 PM
  • Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Composer: Emil Mlynarski
  • Conductor: Jacek Kaspszyk
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Polish Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Nigel Kennedy, violin
  • EMI 79934
4:46 PM
  • Suite for Flute
  • Composer: Louis de Caix D'Hervelois
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: La Reveuse
  • Soloists: Serge Saitta, transverse flute
  • Harmonia Mundi 902352
5:01 PM
  • Orchestral Suite No. 1: Gavotte
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Stefan Sanderling
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
  • Naxos 550644
5:06 PM
  • Preludes, Book 1: La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet
  • Teldec 46015
5:09 PM
  • Romance of the Prairie Lilies
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Conductor: Adrian Leaper
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: RTE Concert Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223516
5:18 PM
  • Fileuse
  • Composer: Cecile Chaminade
  • Soloists: Joanne Polk, piano
  • Steinway & Sons 30037
5:24 PM
  • Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Telarc 80450
5:42 PM
  • String Quartet No. 30 "The Joke"
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
  • DG 4795982
6:06 PM
  • Brook Green Suite
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra
  • Koch 7058
6:14 PM
  • Peek-a-boo Waltz
  • Composer: Justin Holland
  • Soloists: Mark Delpriora, guitar
  • APM Recording 20221
6:18 PM
  • Piano Concerto
  • Composer: Doreen Carwithen
  • Conductor: Richard Hickox
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Howard Shelley, piano
  • Chandos 10365
6:48 PM
  • Four Seasons: Winter
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Conductor: Anne-Sophie Mutter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Trondheim Soloists
  • Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
  • DG 463259
7:01 PM
  • Flute Concerto No. 6: Sicilienne
  • Composer: Saverio Mercadante
  • Conductor: Claudio Scimone
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti
  • Soloists: James Galway, flute
  • RCA 7703
7:06 PM
  • Idomeneo: Overture
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Martin Pearlman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Baroque
  • Telarc 31827
7:12 PM
  • Spring Wind
  • Composer: Yu-Xian Deng
  • Soloists: Lang Lang, piano
  • DG 8233
7:15 PM
  • Symphony No. 4
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
  • Virgin 91194
7:48 PM
  • Mazurka-Oberek
  • Composer: Alexander Glazunov
  • Conductor: Lawrence Foster
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Abbey Road Ensemble
  • Soloists: Itzhak Perlman, violin
  • EMI 55475
8:01 PM
  • The Feast at Solhaug: Overture
  • Composer: Pall Isolfsson
  • Conductor: Rumon Gamba
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
  • Chandos 5319
8:06 PM
  • Romanian Folk Dances
  • Composer: Bela Bartok
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  • DG 415668
8:13 PM
  • Wind Quintet
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
  • Philips 472678
8:28 PM
  • Symphony
  • Composer: Luigi Boccherini
  • Conductor: Marc Destrube
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the 18th Century
  • Glossa 921131
8:45 PM
  • The Lark
  • Composer: Mikhail Glinka
  • Soloists: Tara Kamangar, piano
  • Delos 3471
8:51 PM
  • Serenade for Strings: Finale
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London/Decca 4834942
9:03 PM
  • Five Canadian Folksongs: A la volette
  • Composer: Stephen Chatman
  • Conductor: Jon Washburn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vancouver Chamber Choir
  • CBC 1132
9:06 PM
  • Beautiful Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin)
  • Composer: Fritz Kreisler
  • Soloists: Lara St. John, violin
  • Ancalagon 144
9:09 PM
  • Flower Festival in Genzano: Pas de deux
  • Composer: Eduard Helsted
  • Conductor: Richard Bonynge
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • London/Decca 433862
9:20 PM
  • Magnolia Suite: The Place Where the Rainbow Ends
  • Composer: Nathaniel Dett
  • Soloists: Lara Downes, piano
  • Rising Sun 7
9:26 PM
  • Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
  • Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Conductor: James Judd
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 555867
9:40 PM
  • Suite of Creole Dances
  • Composer: Alberto Ginastera
  • Conductor: Gisele Ben-Dor
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 570999
9:49 PM
  • Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme": 3rd movement
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Leif Ove Andsnes
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
  • EMI 57803
10:01 PM
  • Tanguori
  • Composer: Jeremy Cohen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Quartet San Francisco
  • ViolinJazz 105
10:06 PM
  • Dance Suite after Couperin: Entrance
  • Composer: Richard Strauss
  • Conductor: Rudolf Kempe
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Dresden State Orchestra
  • EMI 64350
10:10 PM
  • Harp Quintet: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Jean Cras
  • Soloists: Isabelle Moretti, harp
  • Valois 4739
10:17 PM
  • Morning Papers Waltz
  • Composer: Johann StraussJr.
  • Conductor: Zubin Mehta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic
  • Sony 66860
10:28 PM
  • Symphony No. 104 "London": 1st movement
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Delos 3061
10:38 PM
  • Navarra
  • Composer: Pablo de Sarasate
  • Soloists: Ani Kavafian, violin
  • Nonesuch 79117
10:45 PM
  • Petite Suite Gauloise
  • Composer: Louis Theodore Gouvy
  • Conductor: Lowell Graham
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: United States Air Force Band
  • USAF 1398
11:01 PM
  • Madrigal-Pavana
  • Composer: Francisco Braga
  • Conductor: Neil Thomson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
  • Naxos 574405
11:08 PM
  • Reverie
  • Composer: Germaine Tailleferre
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kassia Ensemble
  • Soloists: Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
  • Summit 743
11:14 PM
  • Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  • DG 4863046
11:40 PM
  • Sunset
  • Composer: Foday Musa Suso
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
  • Soloists: Soloists
  • Nonesuch 79275
11:47 PM
  • Hungarian Sketches
  • Composer: Bela Bartok
  • Conductor: Georg Solti
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • London/Decca 443444
12:06 AM
  • Rhapsody
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Soloists: Paul Lewis, piano
  • Harmonia Mundi 902365
12:13 AM
  • Gavotte
  • Composer: Zoltan Kodaly
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kontra Quartet
  • Bis 564
12:16 AM
  • Symphony No. 38 "Prague"
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Prague Chamber Orchestra
  • Telarc 80148
12:52 AM
  • Die tote Stadt: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Song)
  • Composer: Erich Korngold
  • Soloists: Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  • Sony 82237
1:01 AM
  • Lyric Waltz
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
  • Bis 384
1:06 AM
  • The Blessed Cathedral
  • Composer: Mel Bonis
  • Soloists: Francois Dumont, piano
  • Bru Zane 2006
1:16 AM
  • Images for Orchestra
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Conductor: Pierre Boulez
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
  • DG 435766
1:51 AM
  • Yellow Beach
  • Composer: Michael Nyman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ahn Trio
  • EMI 57357
2:01 AM
  • Where Mountains Meet the Sky
  • Composer: Ronn McFarlane
  • Soloists: Ronn McFarlane, lute
  • Flowerpot 202301
2:06 AM
  • The Past
  • Composer: Cecile Chaminade
  • Soloists: Peter Jacobs, piano
  • Hyperion 66846
2:12 AM
  • In Winter's House
  • Composer: Joanna Marsh
  • Conductor: Owain Park
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gesualdo Six
  • Hyperion 68404
2:19 AM
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Composer: Adam Pounds
  • Conductor: John Wilson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sinfonia of London
  • Chandos 5324
2:51 AM
  • Ekah
  • Composer: James Lee III
  • Soloists: Inbal Segev, cello
  • Avie 2462
3:01 AM
  • Nachtstuck
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Soloists: Elisabeth Plank, harp
  • Ars Produktion 38229
3:06 AM
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Mathias Monius
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Soloists: Albrecht Mayer, oboe
  • London/Decca 4782564
3:14 AM
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
  • Composer: Gabriel Faure
  • Soloists: Elena Urioste, violin
  • Chandos 20275
3:40 AM
  • Blue
  • Composer: Ola Gjeilo
  • Soloists: Ola Gjeilo, piano
  • London/Decca 4852955
3:44 AM
  • Finding Rothko
  • Composer: Adam Schoenberg
  • Conductor: Michael Stern
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kansas City Symphony
  • Reference 139
4:07 AM
  • Harp Concertino
  • Composer: Germaine Tailleferre
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Women's Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Gillian Benet, harp
  • Koch 7169
4:23 AM
  • Great White Bird
  • Composer: Hilary Kleinig
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Zephyr Quartet
  • Navona 6275
4:29 AM
  • Swanwhite Suite
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Leif Segerstam
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 573341
Julie Amacher

Julie Amacher

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, WI. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Classical 24 in 1997 as a host and producer. She has managed the service since 2007.

Scott Blankenship

Scott Blankenship

Scott Blankenship started his radio career in college when he began working as a volunteer at a local cable radio station, announcing alternative and new rock music. His love and appreciation of classical music began at public radio station KVNO in Omaha, where he spent 13 years in various on-air and management roles, five of those years as the morning drive-time host.

Jeff Esworthy

Jeff Esworthy

Jeff Esworthy has been a host of Classical 24 since 1996. He’s a public radio veteran with more than 20 years behind the microphone, where he’s hosted everything from folk to jazz to progressive rock. A hobbyist musician and collector of instruments from around the world, Jeff has what he describes as a “passable” command of southern string-band music on fiddle and banjo, and he is a long-time student of the classical music of Northern India on instruments such as the sitar, sarangi and tabla.

Ward Jacobson

Ward Jacobson

Ward Jacobson has enjoyed a radio career spanning over two decades as a morning show host and sportscaster, as well as producer/host of an interview program where he chatted with authors, musicians, politicians and newsmakers.

Valerie Kahler

Valerie Kahler

Valerie Kahler started playing cello and piano in 3rd grade, but didn't officially fall under the spell of classical music until high school when she began exploring her parents' LP collection. There, tucked between the Herb Alpert and an abandoned children's record, she found an album of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta. She played the A side (Ravel's Bolero and Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave) over and over again, mesmerized by the changes of color the composers could produce with different instruments, and by the images the music conjured in her imagination.  Thanks to teachers and professors with high expectations and a taste for demanding repertoire, Valerie was able to explore orchestral, chamber and vocal music from the inside out, all through high school and college. At some point during an unfocused pursuit of a bachelor's degree, she wandered into the studios of KNAU (now Arizona Public Radio) in Flagstaff, Arizona. A stint as a volunteer in the music library inevitably led to being placed, unwillingly, in front of a microphone. It became surprisingly less terrifying each time, so she stayed. Ten years later, she packed her bike and her cat into a small pickup truck and drove to St. Paul, Minnesota to work for Classical24. When she's not playing classical music or talking about classical music, she's likely to be reading, sewing, singing or cooking. Valerie shares her life with her partner John, an artist, and their two cats: Mirra and Dieter.

Jillene Khan

Jillene Khan

Jillene Khan works for Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media as an overnight classical host. She studied radio broadcasting at Brown College in St. Paul and kept her Midwestern roots after graduation by hosting at radio stations in Minneapolis; Milwaukee; Davenport, Iowa; and Madison, Wisconsin. She has received local and national recognition for her work from the Country Music Association and Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. She recently won the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. Outside of radio, her favorite things include spending time with loved ones, a great hug, an animal of any kind, and the thrill of a new experience. She absolutely loves doing things for the first time or going places she has never been before. She also enjoys being outdoors, no matter what the weather. “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing,” she says.

Elizabeth Lyon

Elizabeth Lyon

Elizabeth Lyon joins the classical ranks as our assistant program director and fill-in host after six years working for us as a master control specialist, board operator and producer. Her new role combines her love of working technically, behind-the-scenes, as well as stepping in front of the microphone to share her favorite music. As the assistant program director, she coordinates programming, serves as an on-air host and dips her toes in every part of the department. That’s what she loves most about working in radio: “It’s like a river you flow on and you don’t know where you’ll end up, but you love the ride.” Although a violinist by training, her favorite classical composers are tied to her roots in choral music. When not doing all things audio, she can be found hiking, reading, or volunteering with programs that benefit children.

Bonnie North

Bonnie North

For host Bonnie North, classical music is more than just a genre — it's a way of life. She stumbled into the world of radio after responding to a newspaper ad for Vermont Public Radio seeking a classical music DJ for its Sunday afternoon show. Despite having no previous radio experience, she was confident in her knowledge of classical music and took a chance. She created an audition tape, and the rest is history. Her favorite composer depends on her mood. Sometimes she seeks the meditative sounds of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, while other times she craves the angular compositions of Igor Stravinsky. Of course, she also loves the classics by composers who include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. But she is always looking for contemporary composers and is eager to discover new musical talents. Outside of work, she loves to attend live music events. She also enjoys traveling and having friends and family scattered throughout the United States and Europe. But her love for animals is just as strong, and she often volunteers at animal shelters. She is an avid duathlon participant, combining her love for running and biking in one exciting event.

Kevin O'Connor

Kevin O'Connor

Kevin O'Connor grew up in a household where his father and boisterous Irish uncles would often noisily debate what was to be played on the turntable: Between the three brothers, and depending on the mood of the day, it wavered between Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson and Gordon Lightfoot. (The brothers also hailed from Toronto). Kevin's career arc seemed to follow suit, spinning and selling classical, jazz, folk and pop music on the radio, and briefly in retail, for the past three decades.  A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he migrated do the Pacific Northwest, landing the requisite free-form overnight shift at his college station, KBSU, Boise. This was the first among many rungs in a public radio career that has always permitted him to express his passions for great music and explore his mercenary tendency toward spreading the message to anyone who will listen. For the past 18 years, he has served as music director and afternoon host at KBEM. He is also an avid cyclist and walker.

Melissa Ousley

Melissa Ousley

Melissa Ousley stumbled into a career in broadcasting many years ago when she moved to Wichita, Kansas to be near her soon-to-be husband. The attraction (to radio work, that is) was immediate and the chance to be around great music without having to practice was irresistible. After establishing herself as a host and producer in Kansas, Melissa moved to Minnesota and continued her work at WCAL in Northfield and Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul. Her morning classical show at WCAL was twice named "Best Classical Radio Program" by the Twin Cities paper City Pages. Melissa grew up near New York City. As a teenager, she attended the Preparatory Division of the Manhattan School of Music. Her bachelor's degree is from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. When she's away from the airwaves, Melissa loves to run, read, and spend time with her family.

Mindy Ratner

Mindy Ratner

Mindy Ratner fell hopelessly in love with radio as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she volunteered at an on-campus student station. She worked at the local public television station and began her career in earnest as an announcer at Wisconsin Public Radio. The native New Yorker moved on to stations in Cincinnati and Philadelphia before joining Minnesota Public Radio in 1983. April 1998 marked the beginning of a great life adventure, as Ratner began work as a music host and producer on the English Service of China Radio International in Beijing before a return to MPR. Her extracurricular interests include international travel; folk, ballroom and contra-dancing; choral singing; hanging out with her amazing Chinese cat; and trying to stay ahead of the weeds in her garden…with varying degrees of success!

Melanie Renate

Melanie Renate

Through her many mentors at KROC in Rochester, Minnesota, Melanie Renate learned how to splice tape in tandem with learning how to use her voice. She eventually found her path combining her ability to care for people with her love of radio broadcasting. As a certified health and wellness coach and a passionate yogi and mental-health advocate, she has developed a deep appreciation for ways in which music can aid in overall wellness. She is excited to bring her passion for people with her as she steps back behind the microphone as a classical host.

Steve Seel

Steve Seel

Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense. In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.

Steve Staruch

Steve Staruch

Steve Staruch can be heard on Classical Minnesota Public Radio from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays, including hosting Friday Favorites, as well as nationally during those times. Before joining MPR in 2004, Steve presented a variety of radio programs on WCAL in Northfield, Minn., where he created an immensely popular call-in program, and on WXXI in Rochester, N.Y. Outside radio, he enjoys work as a freelance tenor and violist. He and his wife, Naomi, enjoy traveling, gardening and hosting dinner parties.

Lynne Warfel

Lynne Warfel

Lynne Warfel celebrates 30 years as a broadcaster in 2014. She started in Los Angeles in 1984 at the venerable commercial classical station KFAC, and also worked at KUSC. She then lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for five years working in a classic rock format at Radio Forth in Edinburgh before returning to the States and joining Minnesota Public Radio in 1993. Lynne trained as an actor, graduating from Northwestern University and also trained at Second City Workshop. She's a 35 year member of Actor's Equity and Screen Actors' Guild. She finished a Masters in Theology from Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA. Her interests and passions include: laughing, dog rescue, her Collies and Gordon Setters, her Lipizzan horse, Teddy and her two extremely funny, smart and sweet sons, Peter and Josh.