| FRI. | APRIL 1 Ferruccio Busoni (1866) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873) / William Bergsma (1921) |
10 am |
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (for Guitar Trio) |
11 am |
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35 |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Fun and Games «» On April Fools Day, a tribute to the sheer fun of music. |
6 pm |
Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture) |
7 pm |
Mozart: Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation" |
8 pm |
Charismatic Concerto |
9 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Classical Music Quiz |
10 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; An Evening with Jack Paar; Easter Parade |
11 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Just Jazz |
| SAT. | APRIL 2 Simon Peter (1743) / Franz Lachner (1803) / Kurt Herbert Adler (1905) / Girolamo Arrigo (1930) |
9 am |
Haydn: String Quartet in E Major, Hob. III:25 (op. 17/#1) |
10 am |
Chausson: Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet in D Major, op. 21 |
11 am |
Lachner: Symphony #1 in E-flat Major, op. 32 |
noon |
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K. 581 |
1 pm |
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61 |
2 pm |
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #1 "A Sea Symphony" |
3 pm |
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664 (op. 20) |
| SUN. | APRIL 3 Johann Valentin Rathgeber (1682) / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895) / George Barati (1913) / Sixten Ehrling (1918) / Garrick Ohlsson (1948) / Mikhail Rudy (1953) |
3 pm |
BEHIND THE NOTES «»«»«» featuring the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Jung-Ho Pak, Music Director |
4 pm |
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, violin «» Haydn: Symphony #95 in C Minor; Rihm: Two Other Movements (world premiere; New York Philharmonic commission); Chausson: Poème for Violin and Orchestra, op. 25; Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra, op. 28; Ravel: Bolero |
9 pm |
GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Mieczyslaw Horszowski «» Music of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Debussy |
| MON. | APRIL 4 Stephen Storace (1763) / Charles Jerome Hopkins (1836) / Hans Richter (1843) / Pierre Monteux (1875) / Jósef Szulc (1875) / Mary Carlisle Howe (1882) / Eugène Bozza (1905) / Elmer Bernstein (1922) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» No Overtures «» Concertos which begin with the solo instrument rather than with a lengthy orchestral introduction. |
7 pm |
Mario Lanza and Friends |
8 pm |
Monday Evening Piano Concerto |
9 pm |
Ponchielli: La Gioconda ("Dance of the Hours"); Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major, S. 1047; Stravinsky: Petrouchka |
10 pm |
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto #1 in G Minor, op. 25; Berlioz: Eight Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, op. 1 |
11 pm |
Bernstein: Facsimile (A Choreographic Essay); Dvorak: Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, op. 10 |
| TUE. | APRIL 5 Louis Spohr (1784) / Albert Roussel (1869) / Herbert von Karajan (1908) / Goddard Lieberson (1911) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Inside Out «» A look at inversions and palindromes used as compositional devices. |
6 pm |
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto in A Major, op. 20 |
7 pm |
Schubert: Symphony #4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic" |
8 pm |
EVENING AT THE OPERA «» The Dons Meet the Goldbergs: Opera Singers and Characters with These Names |
| WED. | APRIL 6 Johann Kuhnau (1660) / Alessandro Rolla (1757) / Friedrich Volkmann (1815) / Carlos Salzedo (1885) / Andrew Imbrie (1921) / Edison Denisov (1929) / André Previn (1929) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Nationally Rhapsodic «» Rhapsodic music with nationalistic sounds. |
6 pm |
Elgar: In the South (Alassio), op. 50 |
7 pm |
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5 in D Major |
8 pm |
Herrmann: Citizen Kane (film score) |
9 pm |
Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody #1 in A Major, op. 11/#1; Mahler: Quartet Movement for Piano and Strings; Hovhaness: Symphony #50, op .360 "Mount St. Helens" |
10 pm |
Liszt: Three Petrarch Sonnets (#104 "Pace non trovo"; #47 "Benedetto sia ‘l giorno"; #123 "I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi"); Previn: Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" |
11 pm |
Brahms: Symphony #1 in C Minor, op. 68 |
| THU. | APRIL 7 Eduardo Toldrá (1895) / Robert Casadesus (1899) / Ravi Shankar (1920) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Orphean Musings «» Music inspired by Orpheus, the poet and musician of Greek legend. |
6 pm |
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80 |
7 pm |
Reznicek: Donna Diana (Overture) |
8 pm |
Rouget de Lisle (arr. Berlioz): La Marseillaise |
9 pm |
GOOD FOLK «» New Folk «» Kate McDonnell: Where the Mangoes Are; Vance Gilbert: Unfamiliar Moon; David Francey: The Waking Hour; Mason Williams: Music for the Epicurean Harkener; Jack Caldwell: As Sweet as I Remember You; The Gibson Brothers: Long Way Back Home; Steve Glotzer: Lately; Lisbeth Scott: Passionate Voice; Blackmore’s Night: Beyond the Sunset |
11 pm |
NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Katahdin’s Edge: Step Away; Montana Skies: Chasing the Sun |
| FRI. | APRIL 8 Giuseppe Tartini (1692) / Sir Adrian Boult (1889) / Josef Krips (1902) / Franco Corelli (1921) / Walter Berry (1929) / John Reardon (1930) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Music and Architecture «» A look at the interrelationship between these two arts. |
| SAT. | APRIL 9 Johann Crüger (1598) / Matthias Georg Monn (1717) / Sol Hurok (1888) / Efrem Zimbalist (1889) / Paul Robeson (1898) / Antal Dorati (1906) / Jerszy Maksymiuk (1936) / Aulis Sallinen (1935) |
9 am |
Beethoven: King Stephan (incidental music), op. 117 (Overture) |
10 am |
Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella for Violin and Piano, op. 43 |
11 am |
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11 |
| SUN. | APRIL 10 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760) / Domenico Dragonetti (1763) / Eugène d’Albert (1864) / Sigmund Spaeth (1885) / Victor de Sabata (1892) / Luigi Alva (1927) / Claude Bolling (1930) / Jorge Mester (1935) |
3 pm |
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Sir Neville Marriner, conductor; Susan Gritton, soprano; Patricia Risley, mezzo-soprano; Women of the New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, director) «» Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (incidental music), opp. 21 & 61 |
9 pm |
GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Ivan Moravec «» Music of Chopin, Franck, Suk and Smetana |
| MON. | APRIL 11 Anne Danican Philidor (1681) / Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682) / Sir Charles Hallé (1819) / Alberto Ginastera (1916) / Karel Ancerl (1908) / Gervase de Peyer (1926) / Kurt Moll (1938) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Classical Combo «» An installment in the series of programs featuring chamber music composed for different varieties of instruments. |
7 pm |
Mario Lanza and Friends |
8 pm |
Monday Evening Piano Concerto |
9 pm |
Elgar: The Apostles, op. 49 |
11 pm |
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K. 581 |
| TUE. | APRIL 12 Pietro Nardini (1722) / Josef Lanner (1801) / Imogen Holst (1907) / Lionel Hampton (1908) / Jean-François Paillard (1928) / Montserrat Caballé (1933) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Name the Composer «» The monthly mystery composer quiz, challenging you to identify a famous composer by listening to that composer’s music (with further clues added along the way). |
8 pm |
EVENING AT THE OPERA «» An Operatic Potpourri |
| WED. | APRIL 13 William Sterndale Bennett (1816) / Ethel Leginska (1886) / Margaret Price (1941) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Great Cities of Music: London «» A musical excursion to England’s capital city. |
6 pm |
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 16 |
7 pm |
Britten: Spring Symphony, op. 44 |
8 pm |
scores from classic films |
9 pm |
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Overture); Ibert: Flute Concerto; Nielsen: Aladdin (incidental music), op. 34 (Suite) |
10 pm |
Solère: Sinfonia Concertante for 2 Clarinets and Orchestra in F Major; Bruch: Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, op. 75 |
11 pm |
Verdi: Don Carlo (Ballet Music); Prokofiev: Symphony #5 in B-flat Major, op. 100 |
| THU. | APRIL 14 Paavo Berglund (1929) / Morton Subotnick (1933) / Julian Lloyd Webber (1951) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Aspects of Romanticism «» Today’s program illustrates the various qualities which characterize the music of the masters of Romanticism. |
6 pm |
Saint-Saëns: Phaeton (symphonic poem), op. 39 |
7 pm |
Marais: The Bells of St. Genevieve |
8 pm |
Chopin: Barcarolle for Piano in F-sharp Major, op. 60 |
9 pm |
GOOD FOLK «» Bring It On Home «» Bring It On Home—Recordings of WAMC Folk Programs, featuring Happy & Artie Traum, Livingston Taylor, Rick Danko, Rory Block, and others | Chris Proctor: Travelogue |
11 pm |
NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Ken Elikinson: Midnight Conversation; Vorsha Saxena: After the Storm |
| FRI. | APRIL 15 Domenico Gabrielli (1651) / Johann Fasch (1688) / Sir Neville Marriner (1924) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Story of the Concerto «» Another installment in a series of programs illuminating the development of the concerto, from its early beginnings to our time. |
| SAT. | APRIL 16 Léo Weiner (1885) / Federico Mompou (1893) / Milton Cross (1897) / Lili Pons (1898) / Henry Mancini (1924) / Dennis Russell Davies (1944) |
9 am |
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso |
10 am |
Barlow: The Winter’s Past (for Oboe and Strings) |
11 am |
Rubinstein: Rêve Angelique (for Orchestra) |
noon |
Strauss II: One the Beautiful Blue Danube (Waltz), op. 325 (for Vocal Ensemble and Piano) |
1 pm |
Hovhaness: Prayer of St. Gregory, op. 62b |
2 pm |
Hérold: Zampa (Overture) |
3 pm |
Ravel: Sonatine for Piano |
| SUN. | APRIL 17 Johann David Heinichen (1683) / Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741) / Artur Schnabel (1882) / Dame Maggie Teyte (1888) / Harald Saeverud (1897) / Gregor Piatigorsky (1903) / Graziella Sciutti (1932) / Anja Silja (1940) |
9 pm |
GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Nikita Magaloff «» Music of Chopin, Liszt, Moszkowski, Sibelius, Godowski, Scriabin and Haydn |
| MON. | APRIL 18 Giacomo Carissimi (1605) / Franz von Suppé (1819) / Wilhelm Gericke (1845) / Leopold Stokowski (1882) / Miklós Rózsa (1913) / Kent Kennan (1913) / George Shirley (1934) / Catherine Malfitano (1948) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Minor Ups and Major Downs «» The differences bewteen major and minor keys. |
7 pm |
Mario Lanza and Friends |
8 pm |
Monday Evening Piano Concerto |
9 pm |
Handel: Esther |
11 pm |
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne |
| TUE. | APRIL 19 Orazio Benevoli (1605) / Augustus D. Juillard (1836) / Germaine Tailleferre (1892) / Joseph Keilberth (1908) / Murray Perahia (1947) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Make it Fast «» The meanings of tempo indications. |
6 pm |
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals |
7 pm |
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Major |
8 pm |
EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Celebrating Renata Tebaldi (Lynne Strow, guest) |
| WED. | APRIL 20 Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881) / John Eliot Gardiner (1943) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Stepchildren of Fame «» Practically unknown compositions by otherwise famous composers. |
6 pm |
Poulenc: Les Biches |
7 pm |
Ravel: Concerto for Piano Left-Hand and Orchestra in D Major |
8 pm |
Steiner: The Charge of the Light Brigade (film score) |
9 pm |
Rossini: La Cenerentola (Overture); Mozart: Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, K. 261; Vaughan Williams: Symphony #9 in E Minor |
10 pm |
Chadwick: Symphonic Sketch #4 "A Vagrom Ballad"; Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor, op. 15; Berlioz: Messe Solennelle |
| THU. | APRIL 21 Randall Thompson (1899) / Leonard Warren (1911) / Leo Blech (1871) / Bruno Maderna (1920) / Easley Blackwood (1933) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Music and Poetics «» The rhythmic foundations between music and poetry. |
6 pm |
Rameau: Dardanus (Suite); Arnold: Irish Dances, op. 126 |
7 pm |
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 |
8 pm |
Schubert: Symphony #3 in D Major, D. 200; Beethoven: String Quartet in D Major, op. 18/#3 |
9 pm |
GOOD FOLK «» In Concert «» Christine Lavin: Getting in Touch with My Inner Bitch; Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan, Chris Barber: The Skiffle Sessions; Art Thieme: The Older I Get the Better I Was; Phil Leadbetter: Philibuster |
11 pm |
NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Armen Chakmakian: Caravans; Nicholas Gunn: Breathe; Riley Lee & Marshall McGuire: Floating World |
| FRI. | APRIL 22 Giuseppe Torelli (1658) / Dame Ethel Smythe (1858) / Eric Fenby (1906) / Kathleen Ferrier (1912) / Sir Yehudi Menuhin (1916) / Michael Colgrass (1932) / Fiorenza Cossotto (1935) / Joshua Rifkin (1944) |
10 am |
Haydn: Symphony #23 in G Major |
11 am |
Delibes: Sylvia (Prelude, Act 1 and Act 2) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Double Edge Sort «» Examples of compositions which were later transcribed by their composers for instruments other than the ones for which it was originally scored. |
6 pm |
Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane |
7 pm |
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #2 in C Minor, op. 17 "Little Russian" |
8 pm |
Charismatic Concerto |
9 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: The Call of the South! |
10 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; An Evening with Alistair Cooke |
11 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Just Jazz |
| SAT. | APRIL 23 Robert Fayrfax (1464) / Pierre Dupont (1821) / Arthur Farwell (1872) / Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857) / Albert Coates (1882) / Sergei Prokofiev (1891) / Henry Barraud (1900) |
9 am |
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (incidental music), opp. 21 & 61 |
10 am |
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (dramatic symphony), op. 17 |
noon |
Massenet: Esclarmonde (Suite) |
1 pm |
Beethoven: Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 "Eroica" |
2 pm |
Dittersdorf: Symphony after Ovid’s Metamorphoses #1 in C Major "The Four Ages of Man" |
3 pm |
Süssmayer: Das Namenfest (cantata) |
| SUN. | APRIL 24 Giovanni Battista Martini (1706) / John Williams [guitarist] (1942) |
9 pm |
GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Leon Fleisher «» Music for Piano Left-Hand of Scriabin, Blumenfeld, Godowski and Ravel |
| MON. | APRIL 25 Gottlieb Muffat (1690) / Jean Nouguès (1875) / Sparre Olsen (1903) / Italo Tajo (1915) / Astrid Varnay (1918) / Ella Fitzgerald (1920) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» History’s Mysteries «» Did the flow of history inspire certain masterworks of music, or did the composers’ predictions precede those works? Today’s program examines that question. |
7 pm |
Mario Lanza and Friends |
8 pm |
Monday Evening Piano Concerto |
9 pm |
Wagner: Götterdämmerung ("Dawn" and "Siegfried’s Rhine Journey"); Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314; Copland: The Tender Land (Suite) |
10 pm |
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances (Suite #3); Beethoven: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano #2 in G Major, op. 1/#2; Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2 in E Minor, op. 27 |
| TUE. | APRIL 26 Dominique Garat (1762) / Joseph Fuchs (1900) / Wilfrid Mellers (1914) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Interaction of Ideas «» Compositions inspired by a mutual sphere of interest between painters, poets and composers. |
6 pm |
Glazunov: Suite Caracteristique for Orchestra, op. 9 |
7 pm |
Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F Major, op. 93 |
8 pm |
EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Tito Gobbi as Singer and Teacher (Paul Hirsh, guest) |
| WED. | APRIL 27 Johann Adam Reincken (1623) / Friedrich von Flotow (1812) / Nicolas Slonimsky (1894) / Guido Cantelli (1920) / Igor Oistrakh (1931) / Judith Blegen (1941) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Fiddler on the Move «» The influence that the legendary violinist Niccolo Paganini had upon the art of violin playing. |
6 pm |
Debussy: Printemps |
7 pm |
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #1 "A Sea Symphony" |
8 pm |
Raksin: Laura (film score) |
9 pm |
Beethoven: "Name-Day" Overture, op. 115; Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto #5 in F Major, op. 103 ("Egyptian"); Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé (film score) (Suite, op. 60) |
10 pm |
Dvorak: Othello (concert overture), op. 93; Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452; Mendelssohn: Symphony #2 in B-flat Major, op. 52 "Hymn of Praise" |
| THU. | APRIL 28 John Jacob Niles (1892) / Paul Sacher (1906) / Nan Merriman (1920) / Jeffrey Tate (1948) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» Touching Finishes «» A look at masterworks unfinished by their creators but completed by other artists of their time or of a subsequent period. |
6 pm |
Humperdinck: Shakespeare Suite #1; Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flat Major, K. 482 |
7 pm |
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #3 "A Pastoral Symphony"; Britten (after Rossini): Matinées Musicales, op. 24 |
8 pm |
Rheinberger: Organ Concerto #1 in F Major, op. 137; Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Suite) |
9 pm |
GOOD FOLK «» Prairie Home Companion 30th Broadcast Season Celebration «» Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine Group: Live; Peter Ostroushko: Heart of the Heartland |
11 pm |
NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» John Barlow Jarvis: View from a Southern Porch; Laura Sullivan: Mystical America |
| FRI. | APRIL 29 Karl Millocker (1842) / Sir Thomas Beecham (1879) / Wallingford Riegger (1885) / Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895) / Duke Ellington (1899) / Theodore Ward Chanler (1902) / Harold Shapero (1920) / Peter Sculthorpe (1929) / Zubin Mehta (1936) |
10 am |
Handel: Water Music (Suite #1 in F Major); Handel: Royal Fireworks Music |
11 am |
Delibes: Sylvia (Act 3) |
5 pm |
KARL HAAS «» In Between «» A look at some of the many pieces entitled intermezzo, entr’acte, etc., examining their meaning and their musical purpose. |
6 pm |
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome |
7 pm |
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim’s Progress |
8 pm |
Charismatic Concerto |
9 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Beethoven Hour |
10 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; Potpourri of Broadway and Hollywood |
11 pm |
MIXED BAG «» Just Jazz |
| SAT. | APRIL 30 Franz Lehár (1870) / Louise Homer (1871) / Robert Shaw (1916) / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939) |
9 am |
Wesley: Symphony in E-flat Major |
10 am |
Strauss: Four Last Songs (AV 150) |
11 am |
Atterberg: Symphony #7, op. 45 "Sinfonia Romantica" |
noon |
Schubert: Three Military Marches, D. 733 |
1 pm |
Dvorak: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, op. 11 |
2 pm |
Orff: Carmina Burana |
| 3 pm | Mozart: Flute Concerto #1 in G Major, K. 313 |