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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

Monday, January 12, 2026

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

Concert featuring the Marcusson organ of Hadersley Cathedral, Denmark; The Sandtner organ of Villingen Minster, Germany; music of Belgian composer Joseph Jongen played on three organs in Brussels, London and Detroit

Part 1: Bohuslav Martinu: Vigilia; Antonin Dvorak: Prelude and Fugue in g minor; Leos Janacek: Two Compositions for Organ and the organ solo Postlude from the Gladolitic Mass; Viteszlav Noak: Prelude on a Moravian Song; Anton Bruckner: Prelude and Fugue in c minor; Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio for Mechanical Organ; Peter Planyavsky: Perpetuum Mobile and Toccata alla Rumba

John Scott Whitely plays the Marcussen organ in Hadersley Cathedral, Denmark

Part 2: Sigfried Karg-Elerrt: Partita in E, Op. 100; Organ Sonata IV, Op. 68 of Francis Jackson

Graham Barber plays the Sandtner organ of Villingen Minster, Germany,

Part 3: Joseph Jongen: Choral, Op. 37 No. 3; Scherzetto Op. 108, No 1; Prayer, Op. 108, No. 2, played on the 1912 Merklin organ of Notre Dame de Laeken, Brussels;  Gaudeamus Verset for the celebration of Assumption; Légende (unfinished by Jongen and completed by organist John Scott Whitely) played on the 1989 Daniel Pilzecker organ in St. Jude’s Church, Detroit; Improvisation-Pastorale played on the 1912 Merklin organ of Notre Dame de Laeken, Brussels; Marche Religieuses, Op. 38 No. 1 played on the restored 1960 JW Walker organ at York Minster, London; Larghetto, Op. 38 No. 2 played on the 1912 Merklin organ of Notre Dame de Laeken, Brussels; Sarabande in the ancient style played on the 1989 Daniel Pilzecker organ in St. Jude’s Church, Detroit; and the Sonata Eroica, Op. 94 played on the restored 1960 JW Walker organ at York Minster, London

John Scott Whitely, organist

 

                

                

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Madrigalian motets from the Jacobean era in England; American Choral Gems with Quire Cleveland; Choral music of William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons and Charles Villiers Stanford with the Choir of Rochester Cathedral

Part 1: Five-voice motets: Richard Nicolson (fl1595-1639): Cantate Domino; Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr (c1575-1628): Ego dixi Domine and Convertere Domine; Martin Peerson (c1572-1651): Laboravi in gemitu meo; Thomas Lupo (1571-1627/8): Miserere mei; Thomas Ravenscroft (c1590-c1635): Ne læteris; Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr: O nomen Jesu; Martin Peerson: O rex gloriæ; Six-voice motets by Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656): Celebrate Jehovam; John Wilbye (1574-1638): Homo natus de muliere; Robert Ramsey (fl1616-1644): In monte Oliveti; John Mundy (c1555-1630): Judica me Deus; William Byrd (1539/40-1623): Laudate Dominum; Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623): O vos omnes; William Byrd: Venite exultemus; George Kirbye (died 1634): Vox in Rama; Seven-voice motet John Tomkins (1586-1638): Cantate Domino; Eight-voice motet by Hieronymous Prætorius (1560-1629): Laudate Dominum

Quire Cleveland conducted by Ross W. Duffin

Part 2: John Stafford Smith: The Star-Spangled Banner ( in the 1814 version arr. by Ross Duffin); Thomas Ravenscroft: Psalm 98 from 1640; John Playford: Psalm 23 from 1608; James Lyon: “The Lord descended from above” from 1761; William Billings: When Jesus wep’t the falling tear from 1770; The dying Christian’s last farewell from 1704; I am the rose of Sharon from 1778; Daniel Read: “Down steers the Bass” from 1768; William Billings: “Modern Music” from 1781; Lowell Mason: O look to Golgotha from 1843; Amazing Grace from 1847 arr. by William Walker; J.E. Spilman: “Flow gently, sweet Afton” from 1857; Stephen Foster: “Come where my love lies dreaming” from 1855; Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Hymn of Peace” from 1869; Patti Stair: “Minuet” from 1903; Amy Beach: “Through the house give glimmering light” from 1897; Patti Stair: “So sweet is she” from 1916; Edward MacDowell: “The Witch” from 1898; Nathaniel Dett: “Don’t be weary, traveler” from 1920; and Dudley Buck: “Hymn to music” from 1877

Quire Cleveland conducted by Ross W. Duffin

Part 3: Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum and Jubilate in C; Orlando Gibbons: Short Service; William Boyce Te Deum and Jubilate

The Choir of Rochester Cathedra, with Roger Sayer, organist, is conducted by Barry Ferguson

 

                

                

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Canadian Orchestras; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Canadian and Russian works; CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canadian and American music for chamber orchestra

Part 1: Canadian composers: Malcolm Forsyth: Jubilee Overture; Godfrey Ridout: Fall Fair; Oskar Morawetz: Overture to a Fairy Tale

Russian composers: Dmitri Shostakovich: Festival Overture; Alexander Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor; Dmitri Kabalevsky: Overture to Colas Breugnon; Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla

Uri Mayer conducts the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Part 2: Healy Willan: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy; Poem for Strings; Godfrey Ridout: George III, His Lament; Ian McDougall: Andante from the Concerto for Clarinet; Jean Coulthhard: The Bird of Dawning Singeth All Night Long; Rudolf Komorous: Serenade for Strings; Andre Prevost: Scherzo for String Orchestra

The CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Mario Bernardi

Part 3: Aaron Copland: Quiet City, with Jerold Gerbrecht, trumpet and Roger Cole, English horn; Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings; Victor Herbert; John Corigliano: Elegy; Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra, with Kathleen Rudolf, flute; David Diamond: Rounds for String Orchestra

The CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mario Bernardi

 

                

                

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Wind Band music from the French Revolution; Concert in the Park; The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band

Part 1a: François-Joseph Gossec: Symphonie Militaire; Louis-Emmanuel Jadin: Overture in F; Gossec: Marche lugubre; Luigi Cherubini: Hymne à la Victoire; Jean-Xavier Lefèvre: Hymne à l’Agriculture; Rouget de Lisle: Hymne à la liberté

The wind ensemble The Wallace Collection is conducted by its founder John Wallace

Part 1b: Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbrae et triumphale

Leeds Festival Chorus and the Wallace Collection conducted by John Wallace

Part 2: Jaromir Weinberger: Polka from Schwanda the Bagpiper: Howard Cable: Newfoundland Rhapsody; Donald Coakley: Lyric Essay; Camille Saint-Saens: Pas redouble; John Barnes Chance: Variations on a Korean Folk Song; Carl Maria von Weber: Fantasia and Rondo; Sir Artur Sullivan: Pineapple Poll Suite; James Gayfer: Canadian Landscape; Robert Farnon: Excerpts from the works of Robert Farnon; Healey Willan: Élégie héroïque; R.E.J. Milne: Auprès de ma blonde

Edmonton Wind Ensemble is conducted by Harry Pinchin

Part 3: Jack Stamp: Aloft!; Mark Watter: Forged in Fire; James Barnes: The Gathering of Eagles; Master Sergeant Aldo Rafeal Forte: Synergy! Concerto for Band: John Heins: Concerto for Clarinet and Band, with Charles West, soloist; Ron Nelson: To The Airborne; Robert Jager: Lord, Guard and Guide; and Robert Crawford: The U.S. Air Force Song

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

 

                

                

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Monday, January 5, 2026

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

Trio sonatas for organ of Johann Sebastian Bach; Trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger and organist Simon Preston play music of Albinoni and Clarke: “Romance,” with John Walker playing the Shadyside organ in Pittsburgh PA

Part 1: Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Trio Sonatas BWV 525–530

John Butt plays the Greg Harrold organ in Hertz Hall at the University of California, Berkeley

Part 2: Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in g minor (elaboration by Remo Giazotto); Jeremiah Clarke: 8-movement Suite in D

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet solo; Simon Preston playing the organ at Sorø Church, Denmark

Part 3: Sortie in E-flat of Louis James Alfred Lefébrue-Wély; Cesar Franck’s Piéce Héroïque; Allegretto from the Organ Sonata in e-flat minor by Horatio Parker; Variations on “America” by Charles Ives; Fountain Reverie by Percy Fletcher; Tuba Tune by Norman Cocker; Sketch in D-flat, Op. 58 No. 4 of Robert Schumann; Solemn Entry of the Knights of the Order of Saint John by Richard Strauss, arranged by Max Reger; Adagio from Sonata by Herbert Nanney; Prelude and Fugue in B, Op. 7 No. 1 of Marcel Dupré; Concert Variations upon “Old Hundred” by John Knowles PaineJohn Walker the Reuter organ, Op. 2175 at the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh PA

                

                

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am

Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 10 “The Lord is My Light”: 3-act oratorio “Solomon”

Part 1: George Frederick Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 10 “The Lord is My Light”

Lynne Dawson and Ian Partridge,soloists; The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra conducted by Harry Christophers

Part 2: Solomon (3-act oratorio, 1749) – Act 1

Part 3: Solomon (3-act oratorio, 1749) – Acts 2 & 3

Carolyn Wakinson as Solomon; Nancy Argenta as Solomon’s Queen; Barbara Hendricks as The Queen of Sheba; Joan Rodgers as The First Harlot; Della Jones as The Second Harlot; Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Zadok, Stephen Varcoe as A Levite; The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

 

                

                

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am

Herbert von Karajan conducts Bruckner, Holst and Sibelius – Legendary DGG analog and early digital recordings

Part 1: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in c minor (1976 analog)

Part 2: Gustav Holst: The Planets (with the RIAS Chamber Choir)  (1981 digital –  first CD ever produced internationally in collaboration with Sony and DGG)

Part 3: Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in d minor, Op. 104 (1968 analog)

Herbert von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

                

                

Thursday, January 8, 2026

3-hour programs 11 am-2 PM & 9 PM-12 am

The United States Air Force Band play selections from The Golden Age of the Concert Band and New works for modern wind ensemble

Part 1: Americans We by Henry Filmore; Franz von Suppé’s Poet and Peasant Overture transcribed by VF Safranek; Chimes of Liberty by Edwin Franko Golman; Napoli Variations by Herman Bellstedt arranged by Ilona Simon; Clear track Polka by Eduard Strauss, arranged by LB Smith; Old Comrades by Carl Teike; Excerpts from the opera Andre Chenier of Umberto Giordano, arranged by JJ Richards; John Philip Sousa’s Comrades of the Legion; Montmarte March of Haydn Wood; Solo de Concours by André Massager; Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D of Johannes Brahms, arranged by SJ Price; Marche militaire francaise of Camille Saint-Saens, arranged by ML Lake; Boys of the Old Brigade by William Paris Chambers; Roman Carnival Overture of Hector Berlioz, arranged by VF Safranek; Honey Boys on Parade by Edward Cupero, arranged by JR Bourgois

The United States Air Force Concert Band conducted by Major Larry H. Lang

Part 2: Colossus of Columbia by Russell Alexander; Edwin Bagley’s Front Section; Sweeney’s Cavalcade of William Paris Chambers; Trooper’s Tribunal of Henry Filmore; Bugles and Drums of Edwin Franko Goldman; Claudio Grafulla’s Washington Grays; Veni, Vidi, Vic of Robert Browne Hall; John Clifford Heed’s Regimental Pride; The Show Boy by Will Huff; and Knights of the Road by Fred Huffer

The United States Ari Force Concert Band conducted by Colonel Lowell E. Graham

Part 3: Jack Stamp: Fanfare for A New Era; Phillip Sparke: Dance Movements: Bruce Boughton; Excursions for Trumpet and Band by with Chief Master Sergeant Ronald L. Blais, trumpet solo; James Barnes: Symphony No. 3

The United States Air Force Concert Band conducted by Colonel Lowell E. Graham

 

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

Monday, December 29, 2025

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

Fabled Organs of Italy, featuring organists Sergio de Pieri, Umberto Pineschi, and Liuwe Tamminga; French Organist Marie-Clair Alain performing music of Bach; Three organ concerti of Franz Joseph Haydn with Slovakian organist Ferdinand Klinda

Part 1: Two works of Niccolò Moretti played on the organ in Feltre, Northern Italy, at Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo, built by Gaetano Callidoin 1767, and restored by Fratelli Ruffatti of Padova, 1980. Sergio De Pieri is organist; Music of Baldassare Galuppi; Two pieces by Ignazio Spergher played on the organ at Tai di Cadore, Northern Italy, at the Parrocchia di San Candido, built by Antonio & Agostino Callido, sons of Gaetano Callido, in 1813, and restored by Fratelli Ruffatti in 1980-81 – Sergio De Pieri is organist; Works by Marcantonio Cavazzoni da Bologna; Giulio Segni da Modena; Francesco Landini; and Giuseppe Guami played on the organ at Bologna, at Basilica di San Petronio. “Epistelorgan” built by Lorenzo da Prato, 1471-1475, and restored by Tamburini between 1974-82 – Liuwe Tamminga is organist – “Gospelorgan” in this location, built by Baldassarre Malamini, 1595 and restored by Tamburini, 1974-82 – Liuwe Tamminga is organist playing music of Bernardo Pasquini and Girolamo Frescobaldi; Anonymous works played on the organ at Vignole-Quarratal in Northern Italy, at Prioria di San Michele Archangelo. Organ built by Giosuè Agati, 1825, and restored by Fratelli Ruffatti in 1989 – Umberto Pineschi is organist; Works by Andrea Lucchesi; Andrea Gabrieli; Claudio Merulo; and Giovanni Battista Pescetti played on the organ at Mestre, Northern Italy, at Duomo di San Lorenzo. Organ built by Gaetano Callido, 1801 (opus 378), and restored by Fratelli Ruffatti, 1982 – Sergio De Pieri is organist

Part 2: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565; Fugue in g minor BWV 578; Concerto in a minor BWV 593; Fantasie and Fugue in g minor BWV 542; Passacalia and Fugue in c minor, BWV 582

Marie-Claire Alain plays the organ at Abbey church in Saint-Donat, France, built by Curt Schwenkedel between 1959 and 1971

Part 3: Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Organ, two oboes and strings in C; Concerto for Organ, two trumpets, timpani and strings in C; Concerto for Organ and String Orchestra in C

Ferdinand Klima performs on the 1975 organ in the Music Hall of the reconstructed Bratislava Castle with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra conducted by Bohdan Warchal

                

                

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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

Renaissance and Baroque songs and dances played by the ensemble Minstrelsy; Choral and instrumental music of William Byrd in performances by the In Nomine Players, The New York Consort of Viols and The Tallis Scholars

Part 1: Thomas Simpson (ca. 1582-1630): Ballet; Philip Rosseter (1567-1623): When Laura Smiles; Anonymous: Two Ballets; William Lawes (1602-1645): Suite in g minor; John Dowland (1563-1626): I Saw My Lady Weep; Anonymous: When She Cam Ben, She Bobbit; Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Under the Greenwood Tree; Michael Praetorious: Dances from Terpsichore; Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706): Partitia in C; John Dowland: Time Stands Still; Anonymous: Mascarada; John Dowland: Shall I Sue; Anonymous: Volta; Thomas Campion (1567-1620): It Fell on a Summer’s Day; and Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde (fl. Ca. 1638): Canzon a doi soprani

The Minneapolis-based ensemble Minstrelsy performs on period instruments

Part 2: William Byrd: Prelude and Fantasia a 5; La Virginella; My Sweet Little Darling; Fantasia a 3; What Pleasure Hve Great Princes; Though Amaryllis Dance In Green; In Nomine a 5; Blessed is He That Fears; O Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Forget; Fantasia a 6; The Man is Blest That God Doth Fear; Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen

In Nomine Players led by Denis Stevens (1958 analog)

Part 3a: William Byrd: Prelude And Voluntary; Rejoice Unto The Lord; Fantasia A 3 in C (2 selections); Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La; Fantasia A 4 in G; Delight is Dead; Farewell, False Love; Fantasia a 4 in D; Prelude; Who Made Thee, Hob, Forsake The Plough; My Mistress Had a Little Dog; Browning (The Leaves Bee Greene); Ye Sacred Muses

The New York Consort of Viols performs on period instruments

Part 3b: William Byrd: Three-Part Mass (ca. 1592)

The Tallis Scholars led by Peter Phillips

                

                

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 (Evening Program only)

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

Igor Stravinsky conducting Stravinsky in Hollywood, New York, Toronto and Moscow from historic Columbia Masterworks and Melodiya tapings made in the early and mid-1960s

Part 1: The Firebird, recorded in Hollywood in 1961 with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Scherzo A La Russe, recorded in New York in 1963 with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 3 recorded in Toronto, Canada in 1962 with The CBC Symphony Orchestra; and Fireworks, Op. 4, recorded in New York in 1963 with Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Part 2: Symphony in Three Movements, recorded in Hollywood in 1961 with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Symphony in C, recorded in Toronto, Canada in 1962 with The CBC Symphony Orchestra; The Symphony Of Psalms, recorded in Toronto, Canada in 1963 with The Festival Singers of Toronto and the CBC Symphony Orchestra

Part 3a: Ebony Concerto (1945)

Benny Goodman and the Columbia Jazz Ensemble recorded On April 27, 1965 at the CBS Studio at 230 East 30th Street in New York

Part 3b: Suite from the Ballet Petrushka; Fireworks, Op. 4

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in concert October 1962

                

                

Thursday, January 1, 2026 (Evening Program only)

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

Historic performances of Firsts – 1st Piano Concerto and 1st Symphony of Beethoven, Bizet’s Symphony in C, the 1st Piano concerto and 1st Symphony of Tchaikovsky

Part 1a: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

Claudio Arrau, pianist; Sir Colin Davis conducting the Staatkapelle Dresden (1987 Philips digital)

Part 1b:  Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

William Steinberg conducts The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1964 Command Classics analog)

Part 2: George Bizet: Symphony in C

Leonard Bernstein conducting The New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1963 Columbia Masterworks analog)

Part 3a: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in b-flat minor, Op. 23

Philippe Entremont, pianist; Leonard Bernstein conducting The New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1961 Columbia Masterworks analog)

Part 3b: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in g minor, Op. 13 “Winter Daydreams”

The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (1976 RCA analog)

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

Monday, December 22, 2025

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

Organist Jean Guillou improvising on favorite Christmas hymns and carols, Baroque Christmas Music of Telemann, Purcell, Torelli and others; Selection of Italian Concerti and a solo cantata associated with Christmas

Part 1: Concert of improvised Christmas hymns and carols

Jean Guillou playing the great Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ of the Tonhalle Zurich

Part 2: Georg Philipp Telemann’s Festive Suite in A; Henry Purcell: Two Christmas Interludes; Guiseppe Valentini: Sinfonia Per Il Santissimo Natale; Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto a Quatro In Forma Di Pastorale Per Il Santo Natale in g minor; Gaetano Maria Schiassi: Christmas Symphony in D

The Northwest Chamber Orchestra of Seattle is conducted by Alun Francis

Part 3: Alessandro Marcello: Concerto in d minor for oboe, strings and continuo; Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale for soprano, string and continuo; Tomaso Albinoni: Concerto in d minor for oboe, strings and continuo, Op. 9 No. 2; Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in g minor, Op. 6, No. 8, known as the “Christmas Concerto”

Maya Boog, soprano soloist; Stefan Schill, oboist; Cologne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl

                

                

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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

Rare choral music of Dutch Renaissance composer Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck; Christmas Mass as it would have been celebrated in the early 17th century: Short works of Heinrich Schütz and Francesco Usper

Part 1: Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck: 21 motets from Cantiones Sacre (1619)

Trinity College Chapel Choir conducted by Richard Marlow

Part 2: Christmas Mass as it would have been celebrated in the early 17th century: Josquin Desprez: Praeter rerum seriem; Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est; the Spaniard Tomas Luis de Victoria’s two motets O magnum mysterium and Quem vidistis, pastores; Girolamo Frescobaldi and Ercole Pasquini are represented by keyboard work interspersed between choral settings; Giovanni Francesco Anerio; Hodie Christus natus est; Domenico Mazzochi: Alme puere; Carrissimi: Exulte, gaude

The Gabieli Consort and Players on authentic instruments are conducted by Paul McCreesh

Part 3: Heinrich Schütz: Das Wort ward Fleisch; Francesco Usper: Sonata à 8 (from Compositioni armonische, 1619); Heinrich Schütz: Alleluja, lobet den Herren

The Choir and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music is conducted by Paul Goodwin

                

                

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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

Rare choral and orchestral music of Antonio Caldara: Three Christmas cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas cantata of Dutch composer Christian Friederich Ruppe: Historic recording of The Philadelphia Orchestra Brass playing carol arrangements

Part 1: Antonio Caldara: Christmas Cantata (1713)

Mary Enid Haines and Linda Dayiantis-Straub, sopranos; Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; David Arnot, tenor; Aradia Baroque Ensemble directed by Kevin Mallon

Part 2: Antonio Caldara: Two sinfonias (actually the overtures to his oratorios San Pietro in Cesarea from 1743 and San’ Elena al Calvario from 1739)

The Aradia Baroque Ensemble conducted by Kevin Mallon

Part 3a: Johann Sebastian Bach: Four Advent cantatas: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36; Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132; an instrumental suite Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland arranged by Kevin Mallon; cantata Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

Soloists and the Aradia Baroque Ensemble are conducted by Kevin Mallon

Part 3b: Selection of carols arranged for brass ensemble

The Philadelphia Orchestra Brass Ensemble (1967 Columbia Masterworks analog)

                

                

Thursday, December 25, 2025

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

Three-part concert of music celebrating the end of Advent and the beginning of Christmastide

Part 1: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi: Selections from Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni (1628-1634)

Musica Fiata, Köln, directed by Roland Wilson

Part 2: Heinrich Schütz: Christmas Story (Weihnachtshistorie), SWV 435

Soloists, Concerto Vocale, period instrument ensemble led by René Jacobs

Part 3: Heinrich Schütz/Giovanni Gabrieli, Matthias Weckmann and Francesco Usper: choral motets dialogues, sonatas and canzonas

The Choir and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Paul Goodwin

 

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

Monday, December 15, 2025

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

Rarely heard oratorios and choral music of George Frederic Handel – Part 1

Dettingen Te Deum

Soloists, Alsfelder Vokalensemble, Concerto Polacco performing on period instruments conducted by Wolfgang Helbich

An Occasional Oratorio

Julia Doyle, soprano, Ben Johnson, tenor, Peter Harvey, baritone

The Bavarian Radio Choir; Akademie für Alte Musik performing on period instruments conducted by Howard Arman

 

                

                

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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

Rarely heard oratorios and choral music of George Frederic Handel – Part 2

Saul (Oratorio in 3 acts sung in English)

David Cordier as David; Knut Schock as Jonathan; Barbara Schlick as Michal; Claron McFadden as Merab, Witch of Endor; Marcel Beckman as Abner; Gotthold Schwarz as the Apparition of Samuel; Junge Kantorei; Barockorchester Frankfurt performing on period instruments conducted by Joachm Carlos Martini

 

                

                

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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

Rarely heard oratorios and choral music of George Frederic Handel – Part 3

Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (The Triumph of Time and Truth, second version of 1737)

Claron McFadden as La Bellezza (beauty), Elisabeth Scholl as Il Piacere (Pleasure), Nicholas Hariades as Il Tempo (time), Peer Abilgaard as Il Disinganno (Disillusion), Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt performing on period instruments conducted by Joachim Carlos Martini

 

                

                

Thursday, December 18, 2025

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

Music of George Frederic Handel – Part 4

Concerto a due cori in F No. 2 for 2 wind ensembles and strings (as would have been heard during a performance of Messiah)

The English Consort led by Trevor Pinnock from the harpsichord (1984 Archiv digital)

Messiah (Performance in a compilation of versions as would have been heard in 1750s London)

Margaret Marshall, soprano; Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano; Charles Brett, countertenor; Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor; Robert Hale, bass; Saul Quirke, boy soprano – Monteverdi Choir – English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Elliot Gardiner (1981 Philips digital)

 

                

                

Previous Programs on CHC

Monday, December 8, 2025

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

Violin and Keyboard concerti of Johann Sebastian Bach; Three Horn Concerti of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Part 1: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in d minor for two violins, BWV 1043; Concerto in a minor for violin, BWV 1041; Concerto in E for violin, BWV 1042; and Concerto in d minor for two violins BWV 1060

Andrew Manze and Rachel Podger, violinists; The Academy of Ancient Music led by Andrew Manze

Part 2: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in d minor BWV 1052; the Concerto in E BWV 1053; and the Triple Concerto in a minor for flute, violin and harpsichord BWV 1044

Richard Egarr, harpsichordist; Pauline Nobles, solo violin; Rachel Brown, flute in the triple concerto; Andrew Manze directs The Academy of Ancient Music

Part 3: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, K 412 (1791, unfinished); Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, K 417 (1783); Horn Concerto in E-flat, K 447 (1787)

Lowell Greer, natural horn; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra directed by Nicholas McGegan

 

                

                

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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

William Byrd: Mass for 4 voices; Missa Solemnis attributed to Joseph Haydn; Sacred works of Franz Schubert

Part 1: William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices (1592–1593)

The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers

Part 2: Joseph Haydn (attributed): Missa Solemnis

Judith Graf, soprano; Ingrid Alexandre, alto; Lukas Albrecht, tenor; Michael Haag, bass Collegium Cantorum St. Gallen; Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz conducted by Mario Schwarz

Part 3: Franz Schubert: Mass in B-flat D324; Salve Regina in F, D379; Stabat Mater in f minor, D383; Salve Regina in B-flat, D452

Lucia Popp and Helen Donath, sopranos; Brigette Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano; Adolf Dallpozza, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch

 

                

                

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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

“Back To Basics”: Symphonies of Carl Maria van Weber, George Bizet, Franz Schubert, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Sergei Prokofiev

Part 1a: Carl Maria van Weber: Symphony No. 1 in C

Part 1b: George Bizet: Symphony in C

Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Otmar Suitner

Part 2a: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, D.485 (1816)

Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Herbert Blomstedt

Part 2b: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor “Unfinished” D485

Part 3a: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in c minor, Op. 17 “Little Russian”

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur

Part 3b: Sergei Prokofiev: Classical Symphony in D, Op. 25

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur

 

                

                

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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

The United States Marine Band: Classic and modern transcriptions for wind ensemble

Part 1: Overtures, Vol. 1: Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92, transcription By  Herbert L. Clarke; Richard Wagner: Overture To The Flying Dutchman, transcription By Mark Hindsley; Hector Berlioz Overture To Benvenuto Cellini, transcribed by F. Ligner; Giuseppe Verdi: Overture To Il Finto Stanislaw, transcription by Walter Kalischnig: Giuseppe Vedi: Overture To Giovanna D’Arco, transcription by John R. Bourgeois; Johann Strauss Jr.: Overture To The Gypsy Baron, transcription by John R. Bourgeois; Sir Arthur Sullivan: Overture di Ballo, transcription by John R. Bourgeois; and Édouard Lalo: Overture To Le Roi D’Ys, transcription by Lucien Cailliet

The United States Marine Band conducted by Colonel John R. Bourgeois

Part 2: Overtures, Vo. 2: Franz von Suppé: “Light Cavalry” Overture transcribed by Charles Godfrey; Leonard Bernstein: Overture to “Candide” transcribed by Claire Grundman; Otto Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor transcribed by John Philip Sousa; Gaetano Donizetti: Overture to Don Pasquale transcribed by Pasquale Pulvirenti; Charles-Simon Catel: Overture in C Major transcribed by Richard Franko Goldman; Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Louis Miller transcribed by William G. Pruyn; Ambroise Thomas: Overture to Raymond transcribed by VF Safranek; Daniel-François Auber: Fra Diavolo transcribed by LP Laurendeau; Antônio Carlos Gomes: Overture to Il Guarany

The United States Marie Band conducted by Colonel John R. Bourgeois

Part 3a: Sir Arthur Sullivan (arr. Sir Charles Mackerras): Suite from the Ballet “Pineapple Poll”

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

Part 3a: Maurice Ravel: La Valse (transcribed by Master Sergeant Donald Patterson)

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