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Concert Hall Classics

Concert Hall Classics, hosted by Curt Timmons, offers three hours of stunning music, presenting extended selections from the KUCO library and his personal collection. The program allows KUCO listeners to indulge in their favorite masterworks as well as discover more unusual offerings.

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A Preview of Upcoming Programs on CHC

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am Monday through Thursday

Evenings only during Fall 2025 Fund Drive

Music of JS Bach: Organ Concert

Part 1: Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor, BWV 582, the Pastorale in F, BWV 590, The Prelude-Fantasia and Fugue in g minor, BWV 542, known as the Great, the Prelude and Fugue in a minor, BWV 543, the Prelude and Fugue in b minor, BWV 544, Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 545

  1. Power Biggs playing the Flenthrop organ at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University (1964 and 1971 analog)

Part 2: Clavier-Übung III (German Organ Mass)

Carl B. Staplin playing the Dobson Op. 61 organ at Faith Lutheran Church, Des Moines, Iowa; Faith Lutheran Church Chancel Choir conducted by Eric Dale Knapp

Part 3: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564; Partita on Sei gegrüset, Jesu gütig

Jonathan Biggers, organist, on the 1992 Fritts organ at Arizona State University

 

                

                

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Rare choral works of Telemann and CPE Bach; Two Cantatas of JS Bach

Part 1: Georg Philipp Telemann: “Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu” (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus), Telemann-Werke Verzeichnis 6

Soloists; Rheinische Kantorei; Das Kleine Konzert performing on period instruments conducted by Herman Max

Part 2: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus)

Soloists; La Petite Bande on period instruments, led by Sigiswald Kujken

Part 3: Johann Sebastian Bach: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch (Truly, truly I say to you), BWV 86; Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen (Until now you have asked for nothing in My name), BWV 87

The Bach Ensemble conducted by Helmut Rilling

 

                

                

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Music of Dvorak, Fibich and Smetana: Historic Recordings

Part 1: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 1 in c minor “Bells of Zlonice”

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vaclav Neumann (1972 analog)

Part 2: Zdenek Fibich: Symphony No. 3

Brno State Philharmonic conducted by Jiri Belholavek (1981 digital)

Part 3: Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaroslav Krombohlk

                

                

Thursday, October 2, 2025

US Navy Concert Band and USAF Concert Band

Part 1: Rejouissance (Fantasia On “Ein Feste Burg”) by James Curnow, Rolling Thunder by Henry Filmore, Concert Moods for Trumpet by Chief Musician Bryan Kidd, with soloist Chief Musician Robert Birch; Suite Francais by Darius Milhaud; Wedding Dance from “Hasseneh” by Jacques Press; Pastorale by Clifton Wiliams; Song and Dance by Urban F. Carvalho, with Dale Underwood, alto sax soloist; The Chimes of Liberty by Edwin Franco Goldman; Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19 by Hugo Alfven; Philip Sparkes’ Jubilee Overture

The US Navy Concert Band conducted by Commander Philip Howard Field.

Part 2: Marche Hongroise of Hector Berlioz; Sir William Walton’s Crown Imperial; March from Symphonic Metamorphosis by Paul Hindemith; Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner; Mars from The Planets by Gustav Holst; Cakewalk Suite by Hershey Kay; The Purple Carnival by Harry J. Alford; The Sinfonians by Clifton Williams; Valdres by Johanes Hannsen; St. Julien by A.W.Hughes; Hot Trombone by Harry J. Alford; St. Louis Blues by W.C. Handley

USAF Tactical Air Command Band, Langley Air Force Base, conducted by Major Lowell E. Graham

Part 3: Aaron Copland: An Outdoor Overture; Paul Creston: Celebration Overture

The United States Air Force Band conducted by Lt. Col. Lowell E. Graham

 

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am Monday through Thursday

Monday, September 22, 2025

Historic French and Dutch Organs – Vintage Vinyl transcriptions

Part 1a: Organ of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris: Jean-Joseph Mouret Sinfonies de Fanfare; Michael-Richard De Lelande’s three Suites de Sinfonies; Jean Baptiste Lully’s March Royal

Pierre Cochereau, organist; Maurice Andre, trumpet soloist; Brass and Wind Ensemble conducted by Armand Birbaum

Part 1b: Great Organ of the Church Saint-Laurent d’Alkmaar, The Netherlands: Music of Charles Piroye, Louis Marchand, Francois Couperin, Louis Nicolas Clerambandt, and Nicolas de Grigory (1966 Turnabout Vox vinyl)

Pierre Froidebise, organist

Part 2: Cathedral organ of St. Jean at Lyon, France: Organ chorales of Johann Sebastian Bach (1955 English Columbia vinyl)

Edouard Commette. organist

Part 3: 1820 Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Abbey Saint-Michel de Gaillac, France: George Frederick Handel: Concerto in F, Op. 4 No. 5; Concerto in B-flat, Op. 6 No. 6, Concerto in F, No. 13, known as “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”: Concerto in A, No. 14 (1975 Connoisseur Society vinyl)

Lionel Rogg, organist

                

                

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Vocal Choral Music from the Renaissance to the Romantic Eras

Part 1: English Madrigals of Thomas Morley, John Dowland, Thomas Weelkes, John Benet and Francis Pilkington

Niedersächsicher Singkreis Hannover conducted by Willi Träder

Italian Madrigals of Sebastiano Jakob Arkadelt and Cipriano De Rore

Camarata Vocale Bremen conducted by Willy Kopf-Endres

French Chansons of Eustorg de Beaulieu, Pierre Sandrin, Claudin de Sermisy, Andre Mornable, Frnacesco Layolle, Gasparde Coste and Jan Pieterzon Sweekinck

N.C.R.V. Vocaal Ensemble, Hilversum conducted by Marinus Voorberg

German Lieder of Johann Jeep and Paul Peuerl

Kaufbeurer Martinsfinkel conducted by Ludwig Hahn

Part 2: Madrigals of Alessandro Scarlatti: Sdengo la fiamma estinse; Intenerite Voi; lagrime mie; O selce, O tigre, O ninfa; O morte, Agl’altri fosca; Or che da te, mio bene; Mor, mi dci; Cor mio, deh non lagrime; Arsi un tempore

Jürgen Jürgens conducts the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Part 3: Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 and Neues Leibeslieder Waltzes Op. 65

Stepan-Hurnik Piano Duet; Prague Madrigal Singers conducted by Miroslav Venhoda

                

                

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Symphonies of Robert Schumann, Woldemar Bargiel, and Anton Bruckner

Part 1: Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman

Part 2: Woldemar Bargiel: Symphony in C, Op. 30 (1864)

Siberian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Vasilyev

Part 3: the of Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in c minor (1877 version)

Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Eugen Jochum

 

                

                

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Canadian Brass early recordings; American Brass Quintet; US Army Brass Quintet

Part 1: The Canadian Brass 1974/1976 CBC Series recordings: Music of Giovanni Gabrieli, Paul Peureri, Samuel Scheidt and JS Bach

Part 2: American Brass Quintet: Spoleto Festival 1970 – Music of Palestrina, Reiche, Susato, Michael East, Pezel, Anton Simone, Victor Ewald, and Glazounov

Part 3: The United States Army Brass Quintet (1976 personnel) – Music of Mouret, Samuel Barron, Gunther Schuller, Michael Buckley, Morley Calvert, 16th Century Carmina; Scott Joplin; and Thomas Frederickson

 

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am Monday through Thursday

Monday, September 15, 2025

Vivaldi transcribed for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach; Organ music of American composers Ernst Bacon and John Cook; Original compositions for violin and organ by Estonian Hugo Lepnurm and Russian Victor Voloshinov

Part 1: Bach Transcriptions: Concerto in D minor, BWV, from Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor for two violins and obbligato violoncello, Op.3, No.11 (RV 565), found in Vivaldi’s 1711 collection L’estro armónico; Concerto in C major, transcription of Vivaldi’s Grosso mogul violin concerto in D major, RV 208; Concerto in d minor, transcription by Jean Guillou; Concerto in A minor transcription of Antonio Vivaldi’s double violin concerto in A minor, Op. 3 No. 8, RV 522; Concerto in D major, transcribed by Jean Guillou

Jean Guillou plays Great Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ of the Tonhalle, Zürich

Part 2: Ernst Bacon: Uncompaghre; Plymouth Rock; Junction Of The Hoosick & Waloomsac Rivers; Amherst; Cabin In The Rain; Acoma Mesa Pueblo; Nantahala; Rattlesnake Bar; Lumkin County; Big Bend; Stony Lonesome; Saluda River Baptism; and Trumpet Tune

John Cook:  Fantasy for Organ on a Scottish Hymn “Martyrs”; Variations on “Alle sist ein Gottes segen’; and improvisation on “Veni Creator Spiritus”

Marian Ruhl Metson plays the Bozeman-Gibson organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts (in the Bacon); George Bozeman Jr. and Co. organ at The Eliot Congregational Church, Newton Massachsuetts (in the Cook)

Part 3: Hugo Lepnurm: Variations for Violin and Organ; Victor Voloshinov: Concerto for Violin and Organ (1929, rev. 1959)

Murray-Lohius Duo (Robert Murray, violinist and Ardyth Lohuis, playing the 1993 JW Walker & Sons Organ, Op. 123 at the First Presbyterian Church, Norfolk, Virginia)

                

                

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

 Radamisto (3-act opera, 1720 version)

Part 1: George Frederick Handel: Radamisto – Act 1

Part 2: George Frederick Handel: Radamisto – Act 2

Part 3: George Frederick Handel: Radamisto – Act 3

Joyce DiDonato as Radamisto; Maite Beaumont as Zenobia; Patrizia Ciofi as Polissena; Dominique Labelle as Fraarte; Laura Cherici as Tigrane; Zachary Stains as Tiridate; Carlo Lepore as Farasmane

Alan Curtis conducts Il Complesso Barocco performing on period instruments

                

                

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Herbert von Karajan conducts Bruckner, Sibelius and Richard Strauss

Part 1: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in d minor

Herbert von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1976 analog)

Part 2: Jean Sibelius: Finlandia; The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 2 with Gerhard Stempnik, English horn soloist; Valse triste, Op. 44; Tapiola, Op. 112

Herbert von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1984 digital)

Part 3: Richard Strauss: Ein Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Herbert von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1980 digital, first CD ever commercially released)

 

                

                

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Three Virtuoso Baroque Trumpet Players: Wolfgang Basch, Don Smithers and Ludwig Güttler

Part 1: Michel-Richard Delalande: Fanfare; Johann Gottfried Walther: Concerto in G; Georg Philipp Telemann: Selections from “Heldenmusick”; Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria di Postligione, Choral “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” from Cantata BWV 147, and Aria from Cantata BWV 77; Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto in D, Op. 7, No. 6; John Bennet: Trumpet Voluntary

Wolfgang Basch, trumpet, with Wolfgang Rübsam, organist

Part 2: Johann Baptiste Georg Neruda: Concerto in D-flat for Trumpet, strings and continuo; Johann Samuel Endler: Concerto in F for Trumpet, 2 horns, oboe, bassoon, 3 violins, timpani and basso continuo; Johann Melchior Molter: Concerto in D No. 2 for Trumpet, Strings and Continuo; Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Trumpet, Oboes, Strings and Continuo

Wolfgang Basch, trumpet; German Bach Soloists conducted by Helmut Winschermann

Part 3a: Franz Xavier Richter: Concerto in D for Trumpet, strings and continuo; Christoph Graupner: Concerto in D for Trumpet, strings and continuo; Franz Querfurth: Concerto in E-flat for Trumpet, strings, bassoon and continuo; Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto in D for Trumpet, strings, 2 horns and continuo

Don Smithers, natural trumpet; Jaap Schröder leading Concerto Amsterdam

Part 3b: George Frederick Handel: Overture in D for Trumpet, 2 Oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo; Johann Melchior Molter: Concerto in D for corno di caccia, strings and continuo; Johann Wilhelm Hertel’s Concerto No. 2 in E-flat for Trumpet, strings and continuo

Ludwig Güttler, trumpet/corno di caccia and leading Virtuosi Saxoniae

 

                

                

Previously on CHC

Monday, September 1, 2025

Organ Concerti of GF Handel; Baroque Organ Selections; Unusual 20th Century French Organ Works

Part 1: George Frederick Handel: Concerto in B-flat, Op. 7 No. 1; Concerto in A, Op. 7, No. 2; Concerto in B-flat, Op. 7 No. 3; Concerto in d minor, Op.7 No. 5

Lionel Rogg playing the organ of the Abbey Saint Michel de Gaillac; Chamber Orchestra of Tolouse conducted by George Armand

Part 2: Baroque Organ Selections: music of Georg Böhm, Louis Couperin, Johann Kaspar Keri, Dietrich Buxtehude, William Walond; Giovanni Battista Pescetti, Johann Pachelbel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and John Stanley

Peter Hurford playing the 1976 K.B. Blank Organ of Bethelehemkerk, Papendrecht, Holland

Part 3: Late 19th and Early 20th Century French Organ Rarities: Erik Satie: Music from “Messe des pauvres” (1895); Vincent D’Indy: Vespers of the Saints, Op. 51 (1899); Jean Langlais: Hymn of Thanksgiving “Te Deum” (1933-34)Arturo Sacchetti plays the 1965 Tamburini Op. 518 organ at the Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano Church in Rome

                

                

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Baroque and Romantic Sacred Music

Part 1: Jean Gilles: Requiem

Anne Azéma, soprano; Jean Nirouet, counter-tenor; William Hite, tenor; Patrick Mason, baritone; THE AIX-EN-PROVENCE FESTIVAL CHOIR; ENSEMBLE SAGITTARIUS; ENSEMBLE OF PROVENÇAL TAMBOURS; and the BOSTON CAMERATA conducted by Joël Cohen

Part 2: Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (1831-1841)

Cecilia Gasdia, soprano; Margarita Zimmermann, mezzo-soprano; Chris Maerriett, tenor; Jose Garcia, bass; The Ambrosian Singers; I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone

Part 3: Franz Schubert: Kyrie in d minor, D31; Kyrie in F, D66; Salve Regina in B-flat D106; Offertory “Totus in corde” in C D136; Stabat Mater in g minor D175; Offertory Tres sunt” in a minor D181; Graduale in C D184; Offertory “Salve Regina” in F D223; Tantum ergo in C D461

Lucia Popp and Erika Ruggerberg, and Helen Donath, sopranos; Juliana Falk, alto; Adolf Dallpozza and Francisco Araiza, tenors; Peter Lika, bass; Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch

                

                

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Restored recordings of four conductors from the mid-20th Century

Part 1: Gioacchino Rossini Overtures: La Scala De Seta; Semiramide; La cenerentola; The Barber of Seville; The Italian in Algiers; Il Signor Bruschino; Tancredi

Gianfranco Rivoli conducts L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Part 2a: Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell Overture; La Gazza Ladra Overture; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz Overture; Oberon Overture

Pierre-Michel Le Conte conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Part 2b: Otto Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture; Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon Overture; Felix Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine Overture; Ruy Blas Overture

Carl Schuricht conducting the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Part 3: Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, Op 38 “Spring”

David Josefowitz conducts the Monte Carlo National Opera Symphony Orchestra

 

                

                

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Italian Opera for Winds; Music of Morton Gould; “Band Dances”

Part 1: Gioacchino Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture; Pietro Mascagni: Prelude and Intermezzo to Cavalleria Rusticano; Gaetano Donizetti: Divertimento from Lucia di Lammermoor; Rossini: La Cenerentola Overture; Michele Mangnani: Tosca Fantasy (a Fantasia on themes from Puccini’s Tosca); Charles Triebert and Eugene Jancourt (arr.): Fantasia concertante on The Italian In Algiers (Rossini); Giuseppe Verdi: Louisa Miller Overture

The European Wind Soloists led by Patrick De Ritis

Part 2: Morton Gould: American Salute; Symphony for Band “West Point”

 The United States Marine Band conducted by Colonel Michael J. Colburn

Part 3: Jack Stamp: Bandancing; Joseph Turrin: Fandango; Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (arranged by Ian Polster); Bjork: Overture from the film “Dancer In The Dark”; Master Sargeant Aldo Forte: Dance Rhapsody for Tuba and Band – Senior Airman Andy Rummel, tuba; John Corgiliano: Gazebo Dances (arranged as a suite for concert band); Sir Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances; Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag (arranged by Arthur Frakenpohl and edited by Lt. Michael P. Murray)

The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band conducted by Major Larry H. Lang