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Tomorrow on Classical Café, George Leef profiles his weekly Legendary Performer:
American pianist, William Kapell.
Listen here: t.ly/FzFAv
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It’s a new week, All!
Let’s make it great with great classical music. t.ly/FzFAv
7pmET: Drop the Needle = One-Year Anniversary Edition, featuring listener requests.
8pmET: Monday Night at the Symphony celebrates recordings of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
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This Wednesday at 11amET on Classical Café, we'll give away tickets to the @CarolinaBallet production of Snow White, bringing the classic fairytale to life with timeless themes. More information: t.ly/cN1YZ
Tune in to win! t.ly/FzFAv
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Start off the month at 8amET with James Steelmon and Great Sacred Music Mozart’s gorgeous Missa brevis in F, K 192.
And at 6pmET, Preview! spotlights a very special release of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for two guitars.
Tune in here --> t.ly/FzFAv
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YES! WEEKEND!
Yummy classical music right here --> t.ly/FzFAv
Join Peggy Powell for Saturdays on Point at 1pmET & Minkus’s Don Quixote. At 6pmET, Haydn Jones has your Saturday Evening Request Program, always a lovely way to spend a Saturday evening!
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On This Day in Classical Music History:
A very Happy Birthday to legendary Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, born in Riga in 1947.
Read more about him here: t.ly/9AD_z
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It's All-Request Friday, Listeners!
We're playing your special requests and dedications all day (and then again tomorrow evening on the Saturday Evening Request Program).
Want to make a request for next week?
Do that here: t.ly/IrmSk
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Tonight at 7pmET on Thursday Night Opera House:
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, featuring Sir John Barbirolli’s enduring 1966 EMI recording with the orchestra and chorus of the Opera di Roma.
Tune in, right here: t.ly/FzFAv
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On This Day in Classical Music History:
It’s the birthdate of the first international recording star, Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, born in Naples and the most celebrated and highest-paid operatic tenor of his contemporaries. Read more: t.ly/9AD_z
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On This Day in Classical Music History:
It’s the birthdate of Italian soprano, opera director, and voice teacher Renata Scotto in Savona in 1934.
Read more about her here: t.ly/9AD_z
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Tomorrow on Classical Café, George Leef's Legendary Performer: Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
And on Wednesday at 11amET, George will give away tickets to the @mallarmemusic Series Concert: Surviving Inquisition with Forgotten Clefs.
Tune in here: t.ly/FzFAv
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Drop the Needle at 7pmET: a recording of the world’s first million selling artist on the world’s first million selling record: Enrico Caruso singing Vesti la guibba.
Then at 8pmET, Monday Night at the Symphony features Les Arts Florissants.
Tune in here: t.ly/FzFAv
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Sacred Sunday!
8amET: Great Sacred Music, including J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 127 and Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F, K. 192.
6pmET: Preview! and the best in new and recent classical releases. This week, nocturnes: pieces that evoke the nighttime. Tune in here: t.ly/FzFAv
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Ahoy, me mateys! Relax with your shipmates at 1pmET for a jaunty musical tale of pirates on Saturdays On Point: Le Corsaire, the 19th-century ballet with music by Adolphe Adam, inspired by Lord Byron’s 1814 swashbuckling poem. Tune in here: t.ly/FzFAv
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Today at 11amET on Classical Café, we'll give away tickets to see violinist Vadim Gluzman with the
@ncsymphony - More information about the concerts here: t.ly/zUMfB
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Today on Classical Café, George Leef profiles his weekly Legendary Performer: Pianist Menahem Pressler.
Tune in here: t.ly/FzFAv
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On this Day in Classical Music History:
The son of composer Eduard “Edi” Strauss, and nephew of “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II — Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III — was born on this day in Vienna in 1866. Read more about him: t.ly/Wx-_r
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This Wednesday at 11amET on Classical Café, we'll give away tickets to see violinist Vadim Gluzman with the @ncsymphony - More information about the concerts here: t.ly/zUMfB
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Sunday at 8amET, Great Sacred Music includes J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 144.
And at 6pmET, Preview! spotlights juicy new/recent releases, including two works rescued from oblivion: Bach’s Concerto in C Minor, BWV 1060R, and Tchaikovsky’s Fatum, Op. 77.
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Valentine’s Day!
At 1pmET, fill your home, car, wherever you are with Saturday On Point and music for dancers on the stage: Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel.
At 6pmET, Valentine's requests/dedications on the Saturday Evening Request Program.
Join us! t.ly/FzFAv
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