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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, October 5, 2026

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

Organ Edition

Johann Sebastian Bach: Eleven variations on “Sei gegrüset, Jesu gütig:” Fugue in G; Toccata and Fugue in F; Charles-Marie Widor: Toccata in F from the Organ Symphony No. 5

Ralph Downes plays the organ at the Royal Festival Hall, London (1959 Pye analog stereo, restored LP)

Part 2: Charles-Marie Widor: Allegro from the Organ Symphony No. 6; Cesar Franck: Fantasie in A; Jehan Alain: 20th Fantasie; Louis Vierne: Finale of Organ Symphony No. 6; Maurice Durufle: Scherzo, Op.2 and Prelude and Fugue on the name Alain; Marcel Dupre: Variation on a Noel, Op. 20

Michael Farris plays the Casavant Organ in the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Erie, Pennsylvania

Part 3: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564; Arvo Pärt: Annum per annum (Year by Year); Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude in g minor; Robert Schumann: Sketches, op. 58

Michael Farris plays the C.B. Fisk organ, opus 101 in the Caruth Auditorium at Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas

 

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Choral Edition

Selections from a CD entitled “Mas no puede ser” (No more can be): Cancion and pasacalles of several anonymous composers; cantada of Antono Literes (1673 to 1747); villancico and an instrumental work by Cristobal Galan (1630 to 1684); cantada and villancico of Jose de Torres (1670 to 1738); cantada of Francisco Valls (1665 to 1747); villancico and an instrumental work by Juan Frances de Iribarren (1698 to 1767)

Vocal soloists and the ensemble Al Arye Español led by Eduardo Lopez Banzo

Part 2: Selection of works from a CD entitled Ay Amor (Yes, My Love): Several anonymous vocal and instrumental works; zarzuelas “Azis y Galatea,” “Los Elementos’” and El estragon en la fineza o Jupiter y Semele’” of Anton Literes (1673 to 1747); zarzuelas “El impossible mayor en amor le venza Amor” and “Veneno es de amor la envida” of Sebastian Duron (1660 to 1716)

Vocal soloists and the ensemble Al Arye Español are led by Eduardo Lopez Banzo

Part 3: Selections from the CD “Quando muere el sol,” (When the sun dies): “Miserere” of Jose de Torres (1670 to 1738); Tono de Miserere of Juan de Navas (first quarter of the 17th century to the 1st quarter of the 18th century); Lamentation Segundo, del Jueves Santo, of Jose de Torres

Vocal soloists and the ensemble Al Arye Español led by Eduardo Lopez Banzo

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Orchestral Edition

Part 1a: Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of Rome (1958 UA analog stereo)

Part 1b: Aram Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2 in E minor “The Bell” (1958 UA analog stereo)

Part 2: Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F, Op. 10 (1958 UA analog stereo)

Symphony of the Air conducted by Leopold Stokowski

Part 3: Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in g minor, Op. 103 (1958 Capitol analog stereo)

Leopold Stokowski conducts the Houston Symphony Orchestra

 

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Brass Edition

Part 1: Andrea Gabrieli: Aria della Battaglia; Two sonatas and three canzons of Giovanni Gabrieli

Members of the Eastman Wind Ensemble conducted by Frederick Fennell (1961 Mercury analog stereo, restored LP)

Part 2a: Sonatas and Canzons of Giovanni Gabrieli

Brass ensembles of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1968 Columbia analog stereo)

Part 2b: Girolamo Frescobaldi: Canzons arranged for brass and organ

  1. Power Biggs playing the Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, at Harvard University with the New England Brass Ensemble conducted by Richard Burgin (1959 Columbia analog stereo)

Part 3: Contemporary Masterpieces for Brass: Dallas Brass in music of Gershwin and Copland; Canadian Brass in music of Purcell and Jelly Roll Morton; Mixed ensemble Rythym and Brass in music of Scheidt and David Gluck; Bass Trombonist Douglas Yeo accompanied by the Black Dyke Mills Band in music of Grieg, Joy Webb and Stephen Bulla; Atlantic Brass Quintet in music of Anthony Holborn and Michael Praetorius (1998 digital)