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Viola Concerto

  • Composer:Antonio Vivaldi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble:Ars Antigua
  • Soloists:
    • Rachel Barton Pine, viola d'amore
  • Cedille 159

Schedule for June 16, 2025

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5:01 AM
  • Violin Sonata No. 4
  • Composer: Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Variations
  • Accord 205782
5:12 AM
  • Symphony
  • Composer: Paul Dukas
  • Conductor: Jesus Lopez-Cobos
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  • Telarc 80515
5:54 AM
  • Images: The Magical Aviary
  • Composer: Marcel Tournier
  • Soloists: Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
  • Alpha 1133
6:01 AM
  • Cello Sonata
  • Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Soloists: Hee-Young Lim, cello
  • Sony 80497
6:40 AM
  • Swan of Tuonela
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Thomas Sondergard
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Linn 566
6:50 AM
  • Balta Ainava (White Scenery)
  • Composer: Peteris Vasks
  • Soloists: Mina Gajic, piano
  • Dorian 92261
7:01 AM
  • Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Sigurd Rascher, saxophone
  • Sony 60695
7:12 AM
  • Pretty Lady: Gymnopedie
  • Composer: Stephen Sondheim
  • Soloists: Anthony de Mare, piano
  • Avie 2694
7:17 AM
  • Symphony No. 9 "In Summer"
  • Composer: Joachim Raff
  • Conductor: Urs Schneider
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak State Phiharmonic, Kosice
  • Marco Polo 223362
7:54 AM
  • An Andante
  • Composer: Justin Holland
  • Soloists: Christopher Mallett, guitar
  • Naxos 559924
8:01 AM
  • String Quartet No. 2
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Miro Quartet
  • Vanguard 1655
8:26 AM
  • Le Temps des lilas (In the time of the lilacs)
  • Composer: Ernest Chausson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Giardini
  • Pentatone 7357
8:31 AM
  • Romantic Suite
  • Composer: Franz Schreker
  • Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 9951
9:01 AM
  • Flute Quartet No. 1: 2nd movement
  • Composer: Francois-Joseph Gossec
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Milliere String Trio
  • Soloists: Patrice Bocquillon, flute
  • Schwann 310081
9:06 AM
  • Dance Poem
  • Composer: Frank Bridge
  • Conductor: Richard Hickox
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Chandos 10012
9:21 AM
  • Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: The cloud-capp'd towers
  • Composer: Owain Park
  • Conductor: Tim Reader
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Epiphoni Consort
  • Delphian 34239
9:26 AM
  • Hamlet: Ballet Music
  • Composer: Ambroise Thomas
  • Conductor: Antonio de Almeida
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 54820
9:45 AM
  • Piano Sonata No. 16
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Soloists: Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
  • Sony 80928
10:06 AM
  • In the Mountains: Sunny Day
  • Composer: Josef Foerster
  • Conductor: Hermann Baumer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra
  • Dabringhaus 6321493
10:11 AM
  • Four Characteristic Waltzes
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Conductor: Adrian Leaper
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: RTE Concert Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223516
10:26 AM
  • Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Xuefei Yang, guitar
  • EMI 79018
10:29 AM
  • Echorus
  • Composer: Philip Glass
  • Conductor: Angele Dubeau
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: La Pieta
  • Analekta 8727
10:42 AM
  • Flute Concerto No. 11
  • Composer: Francois Devienne
  • Conductor: Hans Stadlmair
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Munich Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Andras Adorjan, flute
  • Tudor 1620
11:02 AM
  • Morris Dance Tunes: Laudnum Bunches
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra
  • Koch 7058
11:06 AM
  • Beautiful Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin)
  • Composer: Fritz Kreisler
  • Soloists: Joshua Bell, violin
  • London/Decca 444409
11:09 AM
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Adam Fischer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
  • Nimbus 5265
11:20 AM
  • Moseltraume
  • Composer: Lou Koster
  • Conductor: Jonathan Kaell
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra
  • Naxos 573330
11:32 AM
  • Reminiscence
  • Composer: Irene Britton Smith
  • Soloists: Dawn Dongeun Wohn, violin
  • Delos 3599
11:37 AM
  • Dance of the Hours
  • Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • EMI 64107
11:47 AM
  • Memories of a Child's Sunday: Bells
  • Composer: Roy Harris
  • Conductor: David Alan Miller
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Albany Symphony Orchestra
  • Albany 350
11:51 AM
  • The Royal Children: Overture
  • Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
  • Virgin 91494
12:01 PM
  • Octet: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Jean Francaix
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble
  • Hyperion 67036
12:06 PM
  • Cosi fan tutte: Overture
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Erato 94821
12:12 PM
  • Italian Serenade
  • Composer: Hugo Wolf
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet
  • Naxos 557374
12:20 PM
  • Atalanta: Overture
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
  • Soloists: Alison Balsom, trumpet
  • EMI 40329
12:25 PM
  • Symphony No. 7: Scherzo
  • Composer: Emilie Mayer
  • Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: North German Radio Philharmonic
  • CPO 555511
12:32 PM
  • Sinfonia Concertante No. 4
  • Composer: Johann Christian Bach
  • Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
  • Soloists: Stephan Schardt, violin
  • Archiv 471579
12:47 PM
  • Fanfare, Hymn and Finale
  • Composer: Peter Boyer
  • Conductor: Peter Boyer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 559915
12:54 PM
  • Piano Concerto: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Andris Nelsons
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Seong-Jin Cho, piano
  • DG 4866821
1:01 PM
  • Minuetto
  • Composer: Ricardo Castro
  • Conductor: Gustavo Rivero Weber
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra
  • Naxos 573902
1:06 PM
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Jean-Francois Paillard
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Paillard Chamber Orchestra
  • Erato 88020
1:11 PM
  • Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Lars-Erik Larsson
  • Conductor: Hans-Peter Frank
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
  • Bis 426
1:19 PM
  • Octet: 5th movement
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Soloists: Isabelle Faust, violin
  • Harmonia Mundi 902263
1:27 PM
  • Omphale's Spinning Wheel
  • Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
  • Conductor: John Wilson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sinfonia of London
  • Chandos 5252
1:35 PM
  • Viola Concerto
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ars Antigua
  • Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, viola d'amore
  • Cedille 159
1:45 PM
  • Celtic Fare
  • Composer: Scott Tennant/Simon Jeffes
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
  • Sony 89100
1:52 PM
  • Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Conductor: Zubin Mehta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
  • Sony 44657
2:01 PM
  • Candide: Overture
  • Composer: Leonard Bernstein
  • Conductor: Eiji Oue
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Minnesota Orchestra
  • Reference 87
2:09 PM
  • Piano Sonata No. 6
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soloists: Jonathan Biss, piano
  • JB 15029
2:26 PM
  • Holberg Suite
  • Composer: Edvard Grieg
  • Conductor: Paavo Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
  • Virgin 44722
2:47 PM
  • Three Norwegian Dances
  • Composer: Anonymous
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: The Curious Bards
  • Harmonia Mundi 905398
2:52 PM
  • Trumpet Concerto
  • Composer: Johann Fasch
  • Conductor: Raymond Leppard
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
  • Sony 57497
3:01 PM
  • Scherzo-Tarantelle
  • Composer: Henryk Wieniawski
  • Soloists: Shannon Lee, violin, Pamela Mia Paul, piano
  • Telarc 80695
3:07 PM
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Conductor: Jorg Widmann
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Munich Chamber Orchestra
  • European Broadcasting Union Recording
3:46 PM
  • String Quartet No. 4
  • Composer: Chevalier de Saint-Georges
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet
  • Naxos 574360
3:55 PM
  • There Will Be Stars
  • Composer: Frank Ticheli
  • Conductor: Christopher Gabbitas
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Phoenix Chorale
  • Signum 885
4:01 PM
  • Songs of a Wayfarer: Ging heut Morgen ubers Feld (Morning Walk)
  • Composer: Gustav Mahler
  • Soloists: Claudius Tanski, piano
  • Dabringhaus 9121489
4:06 PM
  • Four Seasons: Summer: Adagio
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana
  • Soloists: Takako Nishizaki, violin
  • Naxos 556779
4:09 PM
  • Memory of Summer
  • Composer: Carlos Simon
  • Soloists: Carlos Simon, piano
  • London/Decca 4854768
4:15 PM
  • The Irish Four Seasons
  • Composer: Ailbhe McDonagh
  • Conductor: David Brophy
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Anamus
  • Soloists: Lynda O'Connor, violin
  • Avie 2688
4:38 PM
  • Sextet for Winds
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soloists: David Shifrin, clarinet, Paul Wonjin Cho, clarinet, Frank Morelli, bassoon, Marissa Olegario, bassoon, William Purvis, horn, Lauren Hunt, horn
  • Naxos 573942
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
  • Morning Song
  • Composer: Edward Elgar
  • Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
  • Sony 46356
5:10 PM
  • Brook Green Suite
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: Norman Del Mar
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
  • EMI 47812
5:18 PM
  • Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Soloists: Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello, Pascal Amoyel, piano
  • Harmonia Mundi 902387
5:20 PM
  • Variations on a Nursery Song
  • Composer: Ernst von Dohnanyi
  • Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
  • London/Decca 4854218
5:47 PM
  • Symphony No. 8
  • Composer: William Herschel
  • Conductor: Matthias Bamert
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players
  • Chandos 10048
6:01 PM
  • Witness: Building the Barn
  • Composer: Maurice Jarre
  • Conductor: David Newman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Varese Sarabande Symphony Orchestra
  • Varese Sarabande 6151155
6:06 PM
  • Concerto Grosso No. 4
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
  • Archiv 413727
6:17 PM
  • Sheep
  • Composer: Connor Chee
  • Soloists: Connor Chee, piano
  • Wild Saguaro 2020
6:22 PM
  • Violin Concerto No. 3
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Alessandro Moccia
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Champs-Elysees Orchestra
  • Soloists: Giuliano Carmignola, violin
  • Archiv 4778774
6:46 PM
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Soloists: Emma Johnson, clarinet, Gordon Back, piano
  • ASV 621
6:52 PM
  • Pastoral Suite: Scherzo-valse
  • Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
  • Chandos 5122
7:01 PM
  • Two German Dances
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Johannes Wildner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana
  • Naxos 550412
7:06 PM
  • Andante and Rondo Capriccioso
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Soloists: Lydia Artymiw, piano
  • Chandos 8326
7:14 PM
  • Orchestral Suite No. 4
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Richard Egarr
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music
  • AAM 3
7:38 PM
  • Making Hay
  • Composer: Errollyn Wallen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Black Oak Ensemble
  • Cedille 237
7:48 PM
  • Much Ado about Nothing Overture
  • Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Conductor: Andrew Penny
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: West Australian Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 572501
8:01 PM
  • Prelude
  • Composer: Heino Kaski
  • Conductor: Leif Segerstam
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Ondine 824
8:06 PM
  • Te Deum: Prelude
  • Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Laird Brass Ensemble
  • Soloists: Peter Hurford, organ
  • Argo 433451
8:09 PM
  • Blue Electra: Courage (1928)
  • Composer: Michael Daugherty
  • Conductor: David Alan Miller
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Albany Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
  • Naxos 559955
8:18 PM
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
  • Conductor: Juanjo Mena
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic
  • Chandos 10748
8:36 PM
  • Concerto for Two Mandolins
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
  • Soloists: Avi Avital, mandolin, Alon Sariel, mandolin
  • DG 4838534
8:49 PM
  • Poet and Peasant Overture
  • Composer: Franz von Suppe
  • Conductor: Paul Paray
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • Mercury 434309
9:03 PM
  • Carnival: Suite of Five Dances: Frolic
  • Composer: Montague Ring
  • Soloists: Rochelle Sennet, piano
  • Albany 1910
9:06 PM
  • Peer Gynt: Anitra's Dance
  • Composer: Edvard Grieg
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
  • DG 453908
9:10 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
9:21 PM
  • Flute Concerto
  • Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists
  • Soloists: Emmanuel Pahud, flute
  • EMI 57397
9:30 PM
  • Gloriana: Courtly Dances
  • Composer: Benjamin Britten
  • Conductor: William Boughton
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra
  • Nimbus 5295
9:42 PM
  • HMS Pinafore: We sail the ocean blue
  • Composer: W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
  • Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra of London
  • London/Decca 414283
9:45 PM
  • Symphony No. 2 "Ocean": 7th movement
  • Composer: Anton Rubinstein
  • Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 555392
10:01 PM
  • Piano Trio No. 43: Finale
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio
  • Philips 432061
10:06 PM
  • An Outdoor Overture
  • Composer: Aaron Copland
  • Conductor: Louis Lane
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
  • Sony 62401
10:15 PM
  • Johnson's March
  • Composer: Francis Johnson
  • Conductor: Matthew H. Phillips
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Symphony Orchestra of America
  • Albany 103
10:20 PM
  • Suite in the Ancient Style
  • Composer: Vincent d'Indy
  • Conductor: Rumon Gamba
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
  • Chandos 5157
10:37 PM
  • Blackbird
  • Composer: John Lennon/Paul McCartney
  • Soloists: Milos Karadaglic, guitar
10:41 PM
  • New Vienna Landler
  • Composer: Joseph Lanner
  • Conductor: Michael Dittrich
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Bella Musica Vienna
  • Harmonia Mundi 901013
10:47 PM
  • Symphony: Finale
  • Composer: Erich Korngold
  • Conductor: John Mauceri
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Swiss Italian Orchestra
  • Supertrain 62
11:01 PM
  • Intermezzo
  • Composer: Enrique Granados
  • Conductor: Yuli Turovsky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Musici Montreal
  • Soloists: Yuli Turovsky, cello
  • Analekta 9897
11:09 PM
  • Kreisleriana No. 2
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Soloists: Jonathan Biss, piano
  • EMI 65391
11:19 PM
  • Pulcinella Suite
  • Composer: Igor Stravinsky
  • Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • RCA 60394
11:43 PM
  • Capriccio
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Soloists: Mikhail Pletnev, piano
  • Melodiya 1000048
11:50 PM
  • Concert Piece for Clarinet and Basset Horn
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Conductor: Jorg Faerber
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Sabine Meyer, clarinet, Wolfgang Meyer, basset horn
  • EMI 47233
12:01 AM
  • String Quintet: Allegretto
  • Composer: Niels Gade
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble MidtVest
  • CPO 555199
12:06 AM
  • Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
  • Composer: Alexander Borodin
  • Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 9386
12:21 AM
  • The Swan-Queen
  • Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Soloists: Sasha Boldachev, harp
  • SELF PROD 464
12:27 AM
  • Eine kleine Nachtmusik
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica
  • Soloists: Gidon Kremer, violin
  • Nonesuch 79633
12:46 AM
  • Dusklight Movement
  • Composer: Jon Batiste
  • Soloists: Jon Batiste, piano
  • Verve 529002
12:51 AM
  • A Ballet Through Mud: The Night Dances When You Least Expect It
  • Composer: RZA
  • Conductor: Christopher Dragon
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Colorado Symphony Orchestra
  • 36 Chambers 22
1:01 AM
  • Summer Evening: Waltz
  • Composer: Oscar Merikanto
  • Conductor: Leif Segerstam
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Ondine 824
1:06 AM
  • Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna
  • Composer: Franz von Suppe
  • Conductor: Alfred Walter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 553935
1:17 AM
  • Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune (Moonlight)
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Soloists: Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
  • Cedille 197
1:24 AM
  • Piano Concerto
  • Composer: Ricardo Castro
  • Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Mineria Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
  • Cedille 221
1:49 AM
  • Romance No. 2
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Conductor: John Pritchard
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Soloists: Yehudi Menuhin, violin
  • EMI 64324
2:01 AM
  • Rhapsody
  • Composer: Zenobia Powell Perry
  • Soloists: Sarah Cahill, piano
2:06 AM
  • Phantasy
  • Composer: Ina Boyle
  • Conductor: Daniel Geiss
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Daniel Hope, violin
  • DG 4865806
2:13 AM
  • Ships that Pass in the Night
  • Composer: Florence Price
  • Soloists: Karen Slack, soprano, Michelle Cann, piano
  • Azica 71370
2:19 AM
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Composer: Florence Price
  • Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra
  • DG 4861900
2:52 AM
  • Suite
  • Composer: Anonymous
  • Soloists: Mathilde Vialle, bass viol, Thibaut Roussel, archlute, Thibaut Roussel, Baroque guitar, Ronan Khalil, virginal
  • Harmonia Mundi 902505
3:01 AM
  • Intermezzo No. 4
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Soloists: Garrick Ohlsson, piano
3:06 AM
  • String Quartet No. 12 "Quartettsatz"
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Belcea Quartet
  • EMI 57419
3:17 AM
  • Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice"
  • Composer: Carl Nielsen
  • Conductor: Fabio Luisi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
  • DG 4863484
3:55 AM
  • Nocturne
  • Composer: Lili Boulanger
  • Soloists: Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Kathryn Stott, piano
  • Sony 12949
4:01 AM
  • Humoreske
  • Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vento Chiaro
  • Ongaku 24120
4:06 AM
  • Cobalt
  • Composer: Jocelyn Morlock
  • Conductor: Alain Trudel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: National Arts Centre Orchestra
  • Soloists: Jonathan Crow, violin
  • Centrediscs 20014
4:14 AM
  • Gaspard de la Nuit
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Soloists: Conrad Tao, piano
  • EMI 34476
4:38 AM
  • Musica Celestis
  • Composer: Aaron Jay Kernis
  • Conductor: Hugh Wolff
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Argo 448900
4:51 AM
  • To the Evening Star
  • Composer: Abbie Betinis
  • Conductor: David N. Childs
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vox Humana
  • Soloists: Kara Kirkendoll Welch, flute
  • Naxos 572511
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.

Jake Armerding

Jake Armerding

Jake Armerding grew up playing classical violin and listening to ‘80s pop radio. He spent 20 years on the road as an instrumentalist, appearing on such revered stages as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival, before pivoting toward local musical work. He was thrilled to land a spot on the YourClassical team in the last days of 2024. He and his wife oversee the developing rowdiness of their three boys.

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.