Classical Music with Walter Parker
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Weekdays
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We'll celebrate the 75th birthday of conductor Claudio Abbado with one of his more recent recordings: Mahler's Fourth Symphony, with the Berlin Philharmonic and soprano Renee Fleming.
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For the first day AFTER our membership drive, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; plus Chopin's Cello Sonata, played by Allison Eldredge, Artistic Director of the Killington Music Festival, which gets underway this weekend; and Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet, played by the Chiara Quartet, which will be at Dartmouth Friday evening.
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Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel; Jaime Laredo plays Schubert; and the 3rd movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 3, which the Green Mountain Mahler Festival will read this evening at the Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael's College.
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Music of Brahms, Debussy, Chopin, Bruckner, and others as VPR's membership drive continues.
LIVE on VPR Classical highlights
Highlights of recent LIVE on VPR Classical performances, including Soovin Kim, Zuill Bailey, Simone Dinnerstine, Jason Vieaux, and more.
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For Friday the 13th, we'll hear part of Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff, with its opening invocation of Fortune, Empress of the World; also today, Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony, conducted by the composer; and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, played by Yundi Li.
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Music for the first day our VPR's GREEN membership drive will include Zefiro torna (Summer breezes return) by Monteverdi (whose name means GREEN Mountains); Robin is to the GREENwood Gone by Percy Grainger; and The Banks of GREEN Willow, by George Butterworth.
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Suite from the Wise Virgins by William Walton, based on music by Bach; the Jupiter Symphony of Mozart played by the Musicians of the Louvre; a Suite from the Temple of Glory, an opera-ballet by Rameau; and the Concerto of the South for Guitar and Orchestra by Mexican Manuel Ponce.
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Isaac Stern plays music of Fritz Kreisler; pianist Andras Schiff plays early Beethoven; and Istvan Kertesz conducts Brahms' Symphony No. 3.
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The Vienna Philharmonic plays music by its founder and first conductor, Otto Nicolai; the Wind Quintet of Carl Nielsen; and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, played by Krystian Zimerman.
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The Little Russian Symphony of Tchaikovsky and Piano Concerto No. 2 of Saint-Saens, played by Philippe Entremont, who will be at the Vermont Mozart Festival this summer.
Live performance by pianist Paul Orgel and flutist Laurel Ann Maurer at 11am.
Vermont pianist Paul Orgel introduces us to a flutist new to the area, Laurel Ann Maurer. They will give us a live performance preview of their concert in Peacham on June 20 at noon.
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Chopin's Barcarolle and Fantasie, played by Krystian Zimerman; Norwegian Folk Songs from Trio Mediaeval; Debussy's rarely-heard ballet Khamma; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky, born 105 years ago today.
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Divertimento after Couperin by Richard Strauss; String Quartet No. 15 of Schubert; Les Biches by Poulenc; and Symphony No. 3 of George Whitefield Chadwick.
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Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19, played by Rudolf Serkin; Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2; Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony; and Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla.
