Supported By

Become an Underwriter | Find an Underwriter

Recent Highlights

Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare

Saturday, 04/23/11 Noon

Ernest Walter Histed
Conductor, Sir Henry Wood. Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music," was written as a tribute to Wood to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first concert. The recording in this week's program is conducted by Sir Henry.
We celebrate the birthdays of (among others) William Shakespeare and Sergei Prokofiev.

Playlist

12:00pm

Coriolan Overture

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Ensemble The Hanover Band
Conductor Roy Goodman
CD/Album Beethoven - Symphony No.3 'Eroica' - Coriolan Overture
Record co./Cat # Nimbus 5122
Release Year 1987
 

12:09pm

Rome and Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64c

Composer Sergei Prokofiev
Ensemble L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor Armin Jordan
CD/Album Prokofiev/Romeo and Juliet/3 Suites
Record co./Cat # Erato 45817
Release Year 1992
 

12:42pm

Serenade to Music

Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ensemble BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sir Henry Wood
Soloists Isobel Baillie ; Stiles Allen ; Eva Turner ; Heddle Nash ; Walter Widdop ; Frank Titterton
CD/Album Serenade to Music
Record co./Cat # Columbia 5553 [45rpm]
Release Year 1938