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Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite

  • Composer:Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor:Yannick Nezet-Seguin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble:Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 66342

Schedule for March 29, 2024

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5:01 AM
  • Suite Andaluza
  • Composer: Celedonio Romero
  • Soloists: Angel Romero, guitar
  • Telarc 80213
5:19 AM
  • Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Beau Fleuve 3572
5:37 AM
  • Septet
  • Composer: Franz Berwald
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists
  • Bis 2707
6:01 AM
  • Lonely Angel
  • Composer: Peteris Vasks
  • Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Margaret Batjer, violin
  • Bis 2309
6:16 AM
  • Intermezzo for Flute and Harp
  • Composer: Hendrik Andriessen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Glorian Duo
  • Delos 3143
6:21 AM
  • String Quartet No. 13
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cypress String Quartet
  • Avie 2275
7:01 AM
  • Romance
  • Composer: Cecile Chaminade
  • Soloists: Peter Jacobs, piano
  • Hyperion 66584
7:05 AM
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Composer: Emilie Mayer
  • Conductor: Leo McFall
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: North German Radio Philharmonic
  • CPO 555293
7:37 AM
  • A Gaelic Blessing
  • Composer: John Rutter
  • Conductor: John Rutter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
  • Collegium 100
7:39 AM
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Soloists: Christian Tetzlaff, violin
  • EMI 57525
8:01 AM
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Osmo Vanska
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Minnesota Orchestra
  • Bis 1996
8:37 AM
  • L'Isle joyeuse (Joyous Isle)
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Soloists: Stewart Goodyear, piano
  • Bright Shiny Things 154
8:43 AM
  • En voyage
  • Composer: Elizabeth Lutyens
  • Conductor: Simon Joly
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Lyrita 214
9:01 AM
  • Unsent Love Letters
  • Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin
  • Soloists: Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano
9:06 AM
  • Two Nordic Melodies
  • Composer: Edvard Grieg
  • Conductor: Bjarte Engeset
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Malmo Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 572403
9:18 AM
  • Oh Nazan
  • Composer: Gomidas Vartabed
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sybarite5
  • Bright Shiny Things 191
9:22 AM
  • Oboe Concerto
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe
  • Soloists: Douglas Boyd, oboe
  • DG 429225
9:43 AM
  • Two Waltzes
  • Composer: Germaine Tailleferre
  • Soloists: Mark Clinton, piano
  • Elan 82278
9:47 AM
  • Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna"
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Nicholas McGegan
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Savaria
  • Soloists: Zsolt Kallo, violin
  • Hungaroton 32850
10:01 AM
  • Paper Moon
  • Composer: Manos Hadjidakis
  • Soloists: Elena Papandreou, guitar
  • Bis 2636
10:06 AM
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Ludovic Morlot
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Seattle Symphony
  • Seattle Symphony 1002
10:13 AM
  • Passione Amorosa
  • Composer: Giovanni Bottesini
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Camerata RCO
  • Soloists: Rick Stotijn, double bass
  • Bis 2509
10:25 AM
  • Waltz No. 2 "Valse brillante"
  • Composer: Frederic Chopin
  • Soloists: Ingrid Fliter, piano
  • VAI 1250
10:32 AM
  • Symphony
  • Composer: Pavel Vranicky
  • Conductor: Marek Stilec
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice
  • Naxos 574255
10:51 AM
  • Prague Waltzes
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Ivan Fischer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Philips 464647
11:03 AM
  • Insect Dances: Bumblebee Boogie
  • Composer: Elena Ruehr
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Arneis Quartet
  • Avie 2502
11:06 AM
  • Etude No. 3 "Un Sospiro" (A Sigh)
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Soloists: Andre Watts, piano
  • EMI 47381
11:13 AM
  • Orchestral Suite No. 2: The Coming of Spring
  • Composer: Helvi Leiviska
  • Conductor: Dalia Stasevska
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra
  • Bis 2701
11:29 AM
  • Lira Concerto No. 5
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Bohdan Warchal
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Robert Dohn, flute
  • CPO 999182
11:42 AM
  • Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting)
  • Composer: Edward Elgar
  • Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Pinchas Zukerman, violin
  • RCA 61672
11:46 AM
  • Trumpet Concerto
  • Composer: Giuseppe Torelli
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: German Chamber Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Alison Balsom, trumpet
  • EMI 16213
11:52 AM
  • An English Suite: Air and Frolic
  • Composer: Hubert Parry
  • Conductor: William Boughton
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English String Orchestra
  • Nimbus 5366
12:01 PM
  • La Folia/Chi passa
  • Composer: Anonymous
  • Conductor: Jeremy Barlow
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Broadside Band
  • Harmonia Mundi 1901039
12:06 PM
  • Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Conductor: Alberto Zedda
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne
  • Virgin 61206
12:12 PM
  • Titilayo
  • Composer: Jeff Scott
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Imani Winds
  • Koch 7661
12:18 PM
  • Sinfonia Concertante: 1st movement
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Soloists: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
  • EMI 54302
12:32 PM
  • Dance of the Flowers
  • Composer: Amy Beach
  • Soloists: Joanne Polk, piano
  • Arabesque 6693
12:37 PM
  • Four Seasons: Autumn
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
  • Soloists: John Corigliano, violin
  • Sony 45810
12:48 PM
  • Saltarello
  • Composer: Anonymous
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Zurich Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Daniel Hope, violin
  • DG 4865454
12:50 PM
  • L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers): Overture
  • Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
  • Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London/Decca 400049
1:01 PM
  • String Quartet: 1st movement
  • Composer: Josef Myslivecek
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Dolezal Quartet
  • Supraphon 4289
1:06 PM
  • Estudiantina
  • Composer: Emil Waldteufel
  • Conductor: Erich Kunzel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
  • Moss Music 10025
1:12 PM
  • Danse rythmique
  • Composer: Ida Presti
  • Soloists: Berta Rojas, guitar
  • SELF PROD 2022
1:17 PM
  • Othello Suite: Children's Intermezzo
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Conductor: Adrian Leaper
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: RTE Concert Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223516
1:21 PM
  • Carousel Waltz
  • Composer: Richard Rodgers
  • Conductor: Keith Lockhart
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Pops Orchestra
  • RCA 63835
1:29 PM
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Jeanne Lamon
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Tafelmusik
  • Sony 66289
1:47 PM
  • The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March
  • Composer: John Williams
  • Conductor: John Williams
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic
  • DG 4836373
1:51 PM
  • The Planets: Mars
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: Michael Stern
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kansas City Symphony
  • Reference 146
2:01 PM
  • The Prophet: Ballet of the Skaters: Quadrilles des patineurs
  • Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
  • Conductor: Michal Nesterowicz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 573076
2:08 PM
  • Agua do Vintem
  • Composer: Chiquinha Gonzaga
  • Soloists: Hiroko Ishimoto, piano
  • Grand Piano 844
2:11 PM
  • Concert Overture No. 1
  • Composer: Alberto Williams
  • Conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra
  • Naxos 574266
2:23 PM
  • Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Composer: Richard Strauss
  • Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Barry Tuckwell, horn
  • London/Decca 430370
2:41 PM
  • Concerto No. 5
  • Composer: Francesco Durante
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Concerto Koln
  • Capriccio 10371
2:49 PM
  • Bright Blue Music
  • Composer: Michael Torke
  • Conductor: David Alan Miller
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
  • Naxos 559782
3:01 PM
  • Maghera Mountain
  • Composer: Martin Hayes
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Brooklyn Rider
  • Soloists: Martin Hayes, Irish fiddle
  • In a Circle 012
3:06 PM
  • Keyboard Suite No. 1
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Soloists: Lisa Smirnova, piano
  • ECM 2213
3:17 PM
  • Introduction and Rondo
  • Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
  • Conductor: Alexandre Bloch
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Lille National Orchestra
  • Soloists: Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet
  • Pentatone 808
3:26 PM
  • Liena
  • Composer: Sally Greenaway
  • Soloists: Emily Granger, harp
  • Avie 2495
3:29 PM
  • Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 66342
3:29 PM
  • Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 66342
3:48 PM
  • Sinfonia No. 2
  • Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Conductor: Amandine Beyer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gli Incogniti
  • Harmonia Mundi 905321
4:01 PM
  • Pavane and Gigue
  • Composer: William Byrd
  • Conductor: Matthias Bamert
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 9930
4:06 PM
  • English Suite No. 4: Minuets
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Angela Hewitt, piano
  • Hyperion 67451
4:10 PM
  • Capriccio Burlesco
  • Composer: William Walton
  • Conductor: Bryden Thomson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 8968
4:19 PM
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Arts Centre Orchestra
  • Soloists: Pinchas Zukerman, violin
  • RCA 60797
4:41 PM
  • Three Botticelli Pictures
  • Composer: Ottorino Respighi
  • Conductor: Claudio Scimone
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti
  • Erato 92187
5:01 PM
  • Divertissement: 2nd movement
  • Composer: Emile Bernard
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sylvan Winds
  • Koch 7081
5:06 PM
  • Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg): Prelude to Act I
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Conductor: Fabio Luisi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Zurich
  • Philharmonia 102
5:17 PM
  • Carnival: Suite of Five Dances: Cavalcade
  • Composer: Montague Ring
  • Soloists: Rochelle Sennet, piano
  • Albany 1910
5:21 PM
  • Syncopation
  • Composer: Fritz Kreisler
  • Soloists: Gili Schwarzman, flute, Guy Braunstein, violin, Amihai Grosz, viola, Alisa Weilerstein, cello
  • Pentatone 6815
5:24 PM
  • Variations on a Hungarian Folksong
  • Composer: Zoltan Kodaly
  • Conductor: Georg Solti
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic
  • London/Decca 452853
5:50 PM
  • Theme and Variations
  • Composer: Charlotte Sohy
  • Conductor: Debora Waldman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Orchestra of Avignon-Provence
  • Soloists: Cordelia Palm, violin
  • La Boite a Pepites 1
6:01 PM
  • Minuets with Contredances
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Hans Graf
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
  • LaserLight 15887
6:06 PM
  • Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale
  • Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
  • Conductor: Francois-Xavier Roth
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Siecles
  • Harmonia Mundi 902614
6:14 PM
  • Scarf Dance
  • Composer: Cecile Chaminade
  • Soloists: Stefano Grondona, guitar
  • Stradivarius 33915
6:18 PM
  • Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Conductor: Hannu Lintu
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Stephen Hough, piano
  • Hyperion 68291
6:48 PM
  • Divided
  • Composer: Jessie Montgomery
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sphinx Virtuosi
  • Soloists: Thomas Mesa, cello
  • DG 4865014
7:01 PM
  • Capriccio No. 3: Allemande
  • Composer: Jan Zelenka
  • Conductor: Daniel Abraham
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Sinfonia
  • Dorian 92163
7:06 PM
  • Carnival Overture
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonic Brass
  • London/Decca 4854168
7:16 PM
  • Now the day is full of song
  • Composer: Carl Nielsen
  • Conductor: Michael Bojesen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen
  • Dacapo 220569
7:20 PM
  • Petite Symphony
  • Composer: Charles Gounod
  • Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
  • London/Decca 430231
7:42 PM
  • In the Tatra Mountains
  • Composer: Vitezslav Novak
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 573683
8:01 PM
  • Schnofler-Dance
  • Composer: Johann Mayer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Bella Musica Vienna
  • Harmonia Mundi 901013
8:06 PM
  • Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence No. 2
  • Composer: Richard Strauss
  • Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Seattle Symphony
  • Delos 3109
8:15 PM
  • Symphony
  • Composer: Frederick the Great
  • Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra
  • Capriccio 10064
8:28 PM
  • Bassoon Concerto
  • Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
  • Conductor: Juanjo Mena
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Karen Geoghegan, bassoon
  • Chandos 10748
8:47 PM
  • Sonata for Violin and Continuo
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, violin, David Schrader, harpsichord, John Mark Rozendaal, cello
  • Cedille 32
9:03 PM
  • Country Impressions: Frensham Pond
  • Composer: William S Lloyd Webber
  • Conductor: Peter Fisher
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chamber Ensemble of London
  • Soloists: Peter Cigleris, clarinet
  • Somm 653
9:06 PM
  • Mock Morris
  • Composer: Percy Grainger
  • Soloists: Martin Jones, piano
  • Nimbus 7703
9:10 PM
  • Suffolk Suite
  • Composer: Doreen Carwithen
  • Conductor: Richard Hickox
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Chandos 10365
9:23 PM
  • Concerto for Two Horns
  • Composer: Leopold Mozart
  • Conductor: Jaap Schroder
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Concerto Amsterdam
  • Soloists: Hermann Baumann, horn, Mahir Cakar, horn
  • Acanta 43278
9:35 PM
  • Slavonic Dance No. 8
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Soloists: Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos
  • Philips 426264
9:40 PM
  • La Paloma (The Dove)
  • Composer: Sebastian Iradier
  • Soloists: Gao Hong, pipa, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverdi, guitar
  • ARC Music 2969
9:45 PM
  • Little Concert Suite
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Conductor: Paul Freeman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Sinfonietta
  • Cedille 55
10:01 PM
  • Romance
  • Composer: Oscar Merikanto
  • Soloists: Izumi Tateno, piano
  • Finlandia 904
10:06 PM
  • Marriage of Figaro: Overture
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Colin Davis
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Warner 54928
10:11 PM
  • The Last Airbender: Flow Like Water
  • Composer: James Newton Howard
  • Soloists: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • Sony 984303
10:16 PM
  • Celtic Concerto
  • Composer: Catrin Finch
  • Conductor: John Rutter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sinfonia Cymru
  • Soloists: Catrin Finch, harp
  • DG 17606
10:29 PM
  • Dolly Suite: Kitty-Valse
  • Composer: Gabriel Faure
  • Soloists: Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
  • Hyperion 68331
10:32 PM
  • Symphony
  • Composer: Luigi Boccherini
  • Conductor: Johannes Goritzki
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: German Chamber Academy
  • CPO 999175
10:46 PM
  • Symphony No. 5: 4th movement
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London/Decca 4834942
11:01 PM
  • Concert Suite No. 4: La Rameau
  • Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Baroque Nouveau
  • Reference 118
11:09 PM
  • Saudade
  • Composer: Chiquinha Gonzaga
  • Soloists: Antonio Oyarzabal, piano
  • Pixaudio
11:14 PM
  • Music, the gift of the supreme God
  • Composer: John Rutter
  • Conductor: Peter Broadbent
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Joyful Company of Singers
  • EMI 56961
11:21 PM
  • Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Argo 414596
11:39 PM
  • Introduction and Rondo "Alla Militaire"
  • Composer: Cipriani Potter
  • Conductor: Howard Griffiths
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Soloists: Claire Huangci, piano
  • CPO 555274
12:01 AM
  • Sextet for Two Horns and Strings: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Consortium Classicum
  • Dabringhaus 3010594
12:06 AM
  • Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"
  • Composer: Frederic Chopin
  • Soloists: Rafal Blechacz, piano
  • DG 18883
12:13 AM
  • Trumpet Concerto
  • Composer: Giuseppe Tartini
  • Conductor: Jonathan Morton
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble
  • Soloists: Alison Balsom, trumpet
  • EMI 56094
12:24 AM
  • The Deer Hunter: Cavatina
  • Composer: Stanley Myers
  • Soloists: Jason Vieaux, guitar
  • Azica 71287
12:28 AM
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
  • Conductor: Mikko Franck
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Hilary Hahn, violin
  • DG 4839847
12:51 AM
  • The Valkyrie: Magic Fire Music
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • RCA 61268
1:01 AM
  • On Seven-Star-Shoes
  • Composer: Julia Wolfe
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Quintet of the Americas
  • Newport 85512
1:06 AM
  • The Planets: Mercury
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: Michael Stern
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kansas City Symphony
  • Reference 146
1:10 AM
  • Stars
  • Composer: Eriks Esenvalds
  • Conductor: Erick Lichte
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chor Leoni Men's Chorus
  • CLR 1611
1:18 AM
  • Pas de Deux
  • Composer: James Horner
  • Conductor: Vasily Petrenko
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Mari Samuelsen, violin, Hakon Samuelsen, cello
  • Mercury 4811487
1:47 AM
  • The Milky Way
  • Composer: Urmas Sisask
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: ZOFO Duet
  • Dorian 92178
2:01 AM
  • Fantasia Suite No. 8
  • Composer: John Jenkins
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Locke Consort
  • Channel Classics 17698
2:06 AM
  • Dawn (Chacony for Orchestra)
  • Composer: Thomas Ades
  • Conductor: Nicholas Collon
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Ondine 1411
2:13 AM
  • Blackfriars
  • Composer: Anna Meredith
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet
  • Soloists: Anna Meredith, electronics
  • Mercury KX 4845720
2:18 AM
  • Clarinet Concerto
  • Composer: Gerald Finzi
  • Conductor: Michael Collins
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Soloists: Michael Collins, clarinet
  • Bis 2367
2:48 AM
  • Serenade to Music
  • Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Conductor: Vernon Handley
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 8330
3:01 AM
  • A Hermit Thrush at Morn
  • Composer: Amy Beach
  • Soloists: Joanne Polk, piano
  • Arabesque 6704
3:06 AM
  • El cant dels ocells (Song of the Birds)
  • Composer: Pablo Casals
  • Conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestral Cellos
  • Soloists: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
  • London/Decca 4832948
3:09 AM
  • Skylark Call
  • Composer: Gao Hong/Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
  • Soloists: Gao Hong, pipa, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverdi, guitar
  • ARC Music 2969
3:17 AM
  • Symphony No. 4 "From Mission San Juan"
  • Composer: Kevin Puts
  • Conductor: Marin Alsop
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
  • Harmonia Mundi 907580
3:47 AM
  • And the Swallow
  • Composer: Caroline Shaw
  • Conductor: Paul Hillier
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen
  • Naxos 574281
3:52 AM
  • Peregrine
  • Composer: Cristina Spinei
  • Soloists: Cristina Spinei, piano
4:01 AM
  • Contemplation
  • Composer: Henriette Renie
  • Soloists: Naoko Yoshino, harp
4:06 AM
  • Dance Card: Celestial Blue
  • Composer: Jennifer Higdon
  • Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Sinfonietta
  • Cedille 185
4:15 AM
  • Alleluia
  • Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
  • Conductor: Barbara Thornton
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sequentia
  • DHM 77320
4:19 AM
  • String Quartet
  • Composer: Ethel Smyth
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Villiers Quartet
  • Naxos 574376
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.