Classical Music Discoveries

Vittoria Ricci, principle horn of the CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice, performs Mozart. 1 - Horn Concerto in D Major, K. 412 2 - Horn Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 417 3 - Horn Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 447 4 - Horn Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 495 Kathryn Cavanaugh, conductor/director CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Orchestra Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p773/Vittoria_Ricci_Performs_Mozart_%28digital_download%29.html

Rhonda Skaggs, principle oboe Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans 1 - R Strauss: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra in D Major 2 - Vaughan-Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings 3 - JS Bach: Sonata for Oboe and Continuo 4 - Britten: 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid 5 - Stravinsky: Pastorale 6 - Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p772/Introducing_Rhonda_Skaggs_%28digital_download%29.html

Tina Vivaldi is a wonderful example of our "Women in Classical Music Program." Tina was working as a checkout clerk in Naples when we were alerted to a girl that was a fabulous flutist, but due to her lack of formal music education, could not find a job doing what she loved best. After an audition, we were amazed as to how brilliantly she played the flute and yet she never had any formal music training in her life. She was a 100% self-taught flutist. We put her through an intense orchestral and music training program at our CMD Orchestral Training facility and now you can hear the results. Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p771/Introducing_Tina_Vivaldi_%28digital_download%29.html Please support our "Women in Classical Music" program by donating at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html

Amy Shaw is our first musician, of ours, that we have ever featured. We discovered Amy while she was practicing in her apartment. Her 2nd story window was open and we could hear her from the street. Several people had gathered to listen to her and we asked if they came here often to listen to her. "Oh yes, we wouldn't miss it. Who ever it is, plays so beautifully." So we went up to her apartment and introduced ourselves. Amy has been playing trumpet since she was 8 years old and was working as a 2nd grade teacher at the local elementary school in Galveston Texas. We hired her and promptly flew her off to Berlin to join up with Sylvia Wagner and the CMD German Opera Company of Berlin. We think after hearing her play, you will quickly understand why so many people gathered, under her window, to listen to her play. Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p770/The_Lyrical_Sounds_of_Amy_Shaw.html

Over 100 of our favorite music selections for the New Year. Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p769/Our_Favorite_New_Year_Works_%28digital_download%29.html

This broadcast has been archived to YouTube and is now available at: https://youtu.be/ORj-MxsRbpQ

Considered by many to be the greatest of ALL Strauss operas that you've never heard of. Although Strauss described Daphne as a "bucolic tragedy," based on Greek myth, it is not an opera about loss, as is Orpheus, or about retribution, as in Elektra, but rather something else altogether. Daphne, a child of nature, embodies both chaste purity and bewitching glamour, rejects two suitors, and, through metamorphosis, turns into a tree, becoming for all time a part of the natural world she ardently loves. In Strauss's drama, the greater weight is placed on the bucolic, the pastoral, and on humanity's relationship to the natural world. Given the turbulence of 1930s Germany, when the piece was composed, Strauss's artistic response also suggests a meditation on humanity—the good and the bad—and an homage to the ideals of Hellenism that had informed German musical culture from the time of Goethe to Strauss's present day (ideals that were increasingly under the shadow of the rising nihilism that seemed intent on destroying that very culture). Notwithstanding the opera's special, evocative, dreamlike quality, there remains plenty of dramatic action—a cattle stampede, the trajectory of Apollo's chariot, Dionysian revels—that delivers full-on bravura. Performed by the CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain. Produced and Conducted by Joana Filipe Martinez Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p767/R_Strauss%3A_Daphne_%28digital_download%29.html

Over 100 of our favorite works by Tchaikovsky. Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p766/Tchaikovsky.html

Over 100 tracks of our favorite works by JS Bach. Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p765/JS_Bach_Favorites.html

Over 7 hours from our newest compilation of over 10 hours of music by Beethoven. Over 100 tracks! Available for download at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p763/Beethoven%21.html

Over 100 of our favorite works by Handel. Includes a complete performance of "Messiah", "Water Music", "Royal Fireworks" and much more! Over 6 hours of Handel! Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p762/Can_You_HANDEL_This%3F.html

Over 100 of our favorite works by Handel. Includes a complete performance of "Messiah", "Water Music", "Royal Fireworks" and much more! Over 6 hours of Handel! Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p762/Can_You_HANDEL_This%3F.html

Iolanta, Op. 69, is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René's Daughter) by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivanoperetta of that name.[1] The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 in Saint Petersburg. Sylvia Wagner, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p512/Tchaikovsky%3A_Iolanta.html

This broadcast has been archived to YouTube and is now available at: https://youtu.be/r3qPdUwaerw

This performance has been archived to YouTube and is now available at: https://youtu.be/J7xNhLA3Q1w