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Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

  • Composer:Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor:Paul Paray
  • Orchestra/Ensemble:Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • Mercury 434306

Schedule for July 01, 2025

(All times are U.S. Central).
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5:01 AM
  • Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 1-4
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
  • DG 908
5:15 AM
  • Piano Sonata No. 19
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soloists: Stephen Kovacevich, piano
  • EMI 57131
5:22 AM
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Conductor: Marin Alsop
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 557430
6:01 AM
  • Three Spanish Pieces
  • Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
  • Soloists: Julian Bream, guitar
  • RCA 33705
6:18 AM
  • Harp Concerto
  • Composer: Francois Boieldieu
  • Conductor: Iona Brown
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Soloists: Marisa Robles, harp
  • London/Decca 425723
6:39 AM
  • Bull on the Roof (Le boeuf sur le toit)
  • Composer: Darius Milhaud
  • Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: French National Orchestra
  • EMI 47845
7:00 AM
  • Divertimento No. 14
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Winds
  • Orfeo 152861
7:14 AM
  • Scherzo on Tropical Airs
  • Composer: Santos Cifuentes
  • Conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra
7:21 AM
  • Concerto for Piano and Violin
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Martha Argerich, piano
  • DG 427338
8:01 AM
  • Perpetual Motion Pieces
  • Composer: Francis Poulenc
  • Soloists: Lisa Friend, flute
  • Chandos 20037
8:08 AM
  • Ramuntcho Suite No. 2
  • Composer: Gabriel Pierne
  • Conductor: Juanjo Mena
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Chandos 10633
8:25 AM
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • Composer: Maddalena Laura Sirmen
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Lombardini Quartet
  • CPO 555488
8:38 AM
  • Caucasian Sketches
  • Composer: Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  • Conductor: David Zinman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
  • Telarc 80378
9:01 AM
  • Dreaming
  • Composer: Amy Beach
  • Soloists: Anna Shelest, piano
  • Sorel 15
9:06 AM
  • Six Italian Dance Tunes
  • Composer: Peter Warlock
  • Conductor: Ross Pople
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Festival Orchestra
  • Arte Nova 37868
9:17 AM
  • Fur Elise
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Soloists: Alfred Brendel, piano
  • Philips 412227
9:22 AM
  • Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • DG 435619
9:44 AM
  • Horn Concerto
  • Composer: Johann Neruda
  • Conductor: Nicholas McGegan
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
  • Bis 2315
10:01 AM
  • Shepherd's Song
  • Composer: Han-Kun Sha
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Shanghai Quartet
  • Delos 3308
10:06 AM
  • Canadian Summer
  • Composer: Andre Mathieu
  • Soloists: Alain Lefevre, piano
  • Analekta 9275
10:12 AM
  • Symphony No. 5
  • Composer: Georg Anton Benda
  • Conductor: Christian Benda
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Prague Chamber Orchestra
  • Naxos 553408
10:25 AM
  • Gigue
  • Composer: Manuel Ponce
  • Soloists: Cecilio Perera, guitar
  • Naxos 573025
10:32 AM
  • Concerto for Two Violins
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Hilary Hahn, violin
  • DG 986
10:48 AM
  • Rondo Brilliant
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Conductor: Lawrence Foster
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Stephen Hough, piano
  • Hyperion 66969
11:01 AM
  • Libertango
  • Composer: Astor Piazzolla
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Quartet San Francisco
  • ViolinJazz 104
11:06 AM
  • Concerto alla rustica (Rustic Concerto)
  • Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
  • Conductor: Adrian Chandler
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: La Serenissima
  • Avie 2371
11:10 AM
  • A Country Woman
  • Composer: Bedrich Smetana
  • Conductor: Robert Stankovsky
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223705
11:17 AM
  • Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 3rd movement
  • Composer: Richard Strauss
  • Conductor: Michael Collins
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Winds
  • Hyperion 66731
11:22 AM
  • Festive Overture
  • Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Conductor: James DePreist
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Delos 3089
11:29 AM
  • Symphony No. 28
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Philips 412954
11:48 AM
  • Orchestral Suite No. 2: Humoresque
  • Composer: Helvi Leiviska
  • Conductor: Dalia Stasevska
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Lahti Symphony Orchestra
  • Bis 2701
11:51 AM
  • Suite Mignonne
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: William Boughton
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English String Orchestra
  • Nimbus 5169
12:00 PM
  • African Suite: Waltz
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Conductor: Kevin John Edusei
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Chineke! Orchestra
  • Chineke! Records 4853322
12:06 PM
  • Te Deum: Prelude
  • Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Soloists: Rolf Smedvig, trumpet
  • Telarc 80341
12:09 PM
  • Overture to a Comedy No. 1
  • Composer: Svend Erik Tarp
  • Conductor: Tobias Ringborg
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
  • Dacapo 220668
12:17 PM
  • Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Jota
  • Composer: Manuel de Falla
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Romeros
  • Philips 412609
12:21 PM
  • Divertimento
  • Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
  • Archiv 463074
12:31 PM
  • Carnival Overture
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Vernon Handley
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra
  • Chandos 8453
12:42 PM
  • Sicilian Vespers: Four Seasons: Autumn
  • Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
  • Conductor: Jose Serebrier
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • Naxos 572818
12:52 PM
  • Eugene Onegin: Waltz
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Sony 39784
1:01 PM
  • Sonata Concertante: Rondo
  • Composer: Louis Spohr
  • Soloists: Marielle Nordmann, harp
  • Orfeo 129881
1:06 PM
  • Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne
  • Composer: Gabriel Faure
  • Soloists: Gil Shaham, violin
  • Vanguard 1239
1:10 PM
  • Village Dance
  • Composer: Claude Champagne
  • Conductor: Yoav Talmi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Quebec Symphony Orchestra
  • Analekta 3156
1:21 PM
  • Paulus (St. Paul): Overture
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Conductor: Edward Gardner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Chandos 5235
1:28 PM
  • O'Carolan Suite in Baroque Style
  • Composer: Thomas C. Kelly
  • Conductor: Fionnuala Hunt
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Irish Chamber Orchestra
  • Black Box 1003
1:44 PM
  • Fair Maid of Perth: 2 Dances
  • Composer: Georges Bizet
  • Conductor: Erich Kunzel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
  • Moss Music 7127
1:50 PM
  • Symphony No. 7: 4th movement
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
  • Berlin Philharmonic 160091
2:01 PM
  • Blacksmith's Tune
  • Composer: Bengt Hallberg
  • Conductor: Jorma Panula
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scandinavian Brass Ensemble
  • Bis 265
2:06 PM
  • Thais: Meditation
  • Composer: Jules Massenet
  • Conductor: Scott Yoo
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Hee-Young Lim, cello
  • Sony 80425
2:12 PM
  • L'assedio di Corinto (Siege of Corinth): Overture
  • Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Philips 434016
2:23 PM
  • Piano Sonata No. 18
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Soloists: Orli Shaham, piano
  • Canary 21
2:38 PM
  • Monteverdiana
  • Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
  • Delos 3205
2:45 PM
  • Liebeslieder Walzer (Love-Song Waltzes)
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  • London/Decca 4787471
3:01 PM
  • Entry March of the Boyars
  • Composer: Johan Halvorsen
  • Conductor: Richard Hayman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Naxos 550370
3:06 PM
  • Fall River Legend: Church Social and Cotillion
  • Composer: Morton Gould
  • Conductor: James Sedares
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
  • Koch 7181
3:14 PM
  • Miao Mountain Morning
  • Composer: Chen Gang
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Shanghai Quartet
  • Delos 3308
3:19 PM
  • Blumenstuck (Flower Piece)
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Soloists: Andras Schiff, piano
  • Teldec 99176
3:26 PM
  • Cello Concerto No. 1
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Conductor: Iona Brown
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Truls Mork, cello
  • Virgin 45014
3:51 PM
  • Swan Lake: Waltz
  • Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic
  • DG 4796297
4:01 PM
  • Festival Scherzo for Piano and Strings
  • Composer: Madeleine Dring
  • Conductor: Robert Salter
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Guildhall Strings
  • Soloists: Martin Roscoe, piano
  • Hyperion 67316
4:06 PM
  • Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement
  • Composer: John Knowles Paine
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra
  • Naxos 559747
4:16 PM
  • Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst
  • Composer: Ferde Grofe
  • Conductor: Antal Dorati
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • London/Decca 410110
4:27 PM
  • Flute Concerto No. 1
  • Composer: Saverio Mercadante
  • Conductor: Claudio Scimone
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti
  • Soloists: James Galway, flute
  • RCA 7703
4:50 PM
  • Canadian Folk Song Suite
  • Composer: Morley Calvert
  • Conductor: Stephen Chenette
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Hannaford Street Silver Band
  • CBC 5103
5:01 PM
  • Gold Dust Waltz
  • Composer: Erik Satie
  • Soloists: Noriko Ogawa, piano
  • Bis 2215
5:06 PM
  • Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Raymond Agoult
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra of London
  • London/Decca 466465
5:12 PM
  • The Well-Tempered Guitars: Prelude and Fugue
  • Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Brasil Guitar Duo
  • Naxos 570778
5:17 PM
  • Piano Concerto No. 27
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Neville Marriner
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Soloists: Alfred Brendel, piano
  • Philips 412856
5:47 PM
  • Four Scottish Dances
  • Composer: Malcolm Arnold
  • Conductor: Jerry Junkin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Dallas Wind Symphony
  • Reference 66
6:01 PM
  • Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite: March
  • Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Conductor: Andre Previn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Telarc 80107
6:06 PM
  • Paganini Etude No. 3 "La Campanella"
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Soloists: Yundi Li, piano
  • DG 851
6:11 PM
  • Rondo
  • Composer: Sophia Dussek
  • Soloists: Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp
  • Hortus 178
6:17 PM
  • Symphony No. 5
  • Composer: Jean Sibelius
  • Conductor: Klaus Makela
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London/Decca 4852850
6:53 PM
  • Flute Sonata: Scherzo
  • Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
  • Soloists: Catherine Gregory, flute
  • Bright Shiny Things 190
7:01 PM
  • Minuetto
  • Composer: Ricardo Castro
  • Conductor: Gustavo Rivero Weber
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra
  • Naxos 573902
7:06 PM
  • Peer Gynt: In The Hall Of The Mountain King
  • Composer: Edvard Grieg
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
  • DG 457196
7:10 PM
  • Spanish Serenade
  • Composer: Cecile Chaminade
  • Soloists: Peter Jacobs, piano
  • Hyperion 66846
7:14 PM
  • Symphonie Espagnole
  • Composer: Edouard Lalo
  • Conductor: Jesus Lopez-Cobos
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Chee-Yun, violin
  • Denon 18017
7:49 PM
  • Toccata and Fugue
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Philips 432092
8:01 PM
  • Hook: Flight to Neverland
  • Composer: John Williams
  • Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
  • DG 29939
8:06 PM
  • Sextet for Two Horns and Strings
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Consortium Classicum
  • Dabringhaus 3010594
8:24 PM
  • Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Composer: Paul Hindemith
  • Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: North German Radio Symphony
  • Ondine 1214
8:46 PM
  • Serenade and Allegro giocoso
  • Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Conductor: Lawrence Foster
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Stephen Hough, piano
  • Hyperion 66969
9:03 PM
  • Coffee and Cakes
  • Composer: Charlie Chaplin
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Duo Intermezzo
  • Genuin 10531
9:06 PM
  • Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday
  • Composer: Aaron Copland
  • Conductor: Keith Lockhart
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Pops Orchestra
  • RCA 68786
9:14 PM
  • Bassoon Concerto: Rondo
  • Composer: Carl Maria von Weber
  • Conductor: Alexander Janiczek
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Peter Whelan, bassoon
  • Linn 409
9:20 PM
  • Music Box
  • Composer: Isaias Savio
  • Soloists: Graham Anthony Devine, guitar
  • Naxos 574337
9:23 PM
  • Daphnis and Chloe: Part 3
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Radio France Chorus
  • DG 5075
9:41 PM
  • Concerto Grosso No. 2
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Conductor: Martin Pearlman
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Baroque
  • Telarc 80253
9:52 PM
  • Symphony "The Cotswolds": 4th movement
  • Composer: Gustav Holst
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra
  • Naxos 572914
10:01 PM
  • Violin Concerto: 3rd movement
  • Composer: Chevalier de Saint-Georges
  • Conductor: Daniel Hege
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Encore Chamber Orchestra
  • Soloists: Rachel Barton Pine, violin
  • Cedille 214
10:17 PM
  • Capriccio No. 1
  • Composer: Muzio Clementi
  • Soloists: Lilya Zilberstein, piano
  • Hanssler 93096
10:26 PM
  • Novelette "In Spanish Style"
  • Composer: Alexander Glazunov
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Petersburg String Quartet
  • Delos 3262
10:33 PM
  • Capriccio Espagnol
  • Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Conductor: Mariss Jansons
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • EMI 55227
10:51 PM
  • Symphony No. 34: Finale
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Prague Chamber Orchestra
  • Telarc 80190
11:01 PM
  • Wedding March
  • Composer: Johan Halvorsen
  • Conductor: Bjarte Engeset
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Henning Kraggerud, violin
  • Naxos 554497
11:06 PM
  • Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)
  • Composer: Fritz Kreisler
  • Soloists: Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
  • London/Decca 470291
11:12 PM
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Conductor: Grant Gershon
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale
  • Soloists: Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
  • Avie 2585
11:17 PM
  • Children's March (Over the Hills and Far Away)
  • Composer: Percy Grainger
  • Conductor: Keith Brion
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Michigan State Symphonic Band
  • Delos 3101
11:25 PM
  • Scenes from Childhood
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Soloists: Mirian Conti, piano
  • Albany 1642
11:44 PM
  • Noble and Sentimental Waltzes
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Conductor: Paul Paray
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • Mercury 434306
12:01 AM
  • Two German Dances
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Soloists: Yaara Tal, piano, Andreas Groethuysen, piano
  • Sony 68243
12:06 AM
  • Roman Carnival Overture
  • Composer: Hector Berlioz
  • Conductor: Alexander Gibson
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish National Orchestra
  • Chandos 8316
12:16 AM
  • Symphony No. 5 "The Carnival": 1st movement
  • Composer: Alfred Hill
  • Conductor: Wilfred Lehmann
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Queensland Symphony Orchestra
  • Marco Polo 223538
12:22 AM
  • Cello Concerto No. 2
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Trondheim Soloists
  • Soloists: Alisa Weilerstein, cello
  • Pentatone 717
12:46 AM
  • The Butterfly's Ball
  • Composer: Frederic Cowen
  • Conductor: Adrian Leaper
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak State Phiharmonic, Kosice
  • Marco Polo 223273
1:01 AM
  • Lyric Quartet: The Quiet One
  • Composer: William Grant Still
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Oregon String Quartet
  • Koch 7546
1:06 AM
  • A Dream at Sea
  • Composer: Teresa Carreno
  • Soloists: Sarah Cahill, piano
  • First Hand 151
1:13 AM
  • Scherzetto
  • Composer: Jacques Ibert
  • Soloists: Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp
  • Hortus 731
1:18 AM
  • Siegfried Idyll
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Conductor: Christian Thielemann
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: German Opera Orchestra
  • DG 469008
1:39 AM
  • Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"
  • Composer: Alan Hovhaness
  • Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Telarc 80604
2:01 AM
  • Impromptu No. 2
  • Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Soloists: Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
  • London/Decca 4851683
2:06 AM
  • Capriol Suite
  • Composer: Peter Warlock
  • Conductor: Jonathan Rees
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble
  • Virgin 91112
2:16 AM
  • Siesta
  • Composer: William Walton
  • Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia
  • Naxos 555868
2:23 AM
  • Piano Concerto
  • Composer: Clara Schumann
  • Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Women's Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Angela Cheng, piano
  • Koch 7169
2:47 AM
  • Paroles - Suite for Clarinet and Orchestra: I. Parole des Abimes au Soleil
  • Composer: Dia Succari
  • Conductor: Manuel Nawri
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: German Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
  • Dreyer Gaido 21114
3:01 AM
  • Beatlerianas: Eleanor Rigby
  • Composer: Leo Brouwer
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Alexander String Quartet
  • Soloists: William Kanengiser, guitar
  • Foghorn 2023
3:06 AM
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Composer: Fanny Gordon
  • Conductor: Tomasz Radziwonowicz
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Sinfonia ViVa
  • Dux 0483
3:10 AM
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Soloists: Imogen Cooper, piano
  • Chandos 20119
3:18 AM
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Conductor: Lawrence Foster
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Pentatone 655
3:49 AM
  • String Quartet No. 2: Nocturne
  • Composer: Alexander Borodin
  • Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Sony 38919
4:01 AM
  • Barcarolle
  • Composer: Mel Bonis
  • Soloists: Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano
  • Ars Produktion 38349
4:06 AM
  • Castell Caernarfon
  • Composer: Grace Williams
  • Conductor: John Andrews
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic
  • Resonus 10349
4:17 AM
  • Harvest Dance Suite
  • Composer: Ilmari Hannikainen
  • Conductor: Petri Sakari
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • YLE 9703
4:33 AM
  • Serenade for Winds
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Conductor: Hugh Wolff
  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
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.