A Preview of Upcoming Programs on CHC

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

Concert Hall Classics October 26 to October 29, 2026

Oct. 26 – Organ Edition

Program 1: Organ music of Leo Sowerby, Symphony for Organ and Orchestra of Aaron Copland; Historic recording of Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani with Charles Munch conducting; “Ein Feste Burg” with the Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble

Part 1: Leo Sowerby: Fantasy for Flute Stops; Requiescat in pace: Symphony in G for Organ

Catherine Crozier plays the Aeolian-Skinner Organ at Saint John’s Chapel of the Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1987 digital)

Part 2a: Aaron Copland: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra

Wayne Marshall plays the CB Fisk Opus 100 organ in the Meyerson Symphony Center Hall – Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton (1997 digital)

Part 2b: Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Organ Strings and Timpani

Berj Zamchochian plays the Boston Symphony Hall organ: Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch (1960 analog)

Part 3: James Curnow: Rejouissance-Fantasia on “Ein Feste Burg” composed in 1987 for wind ensemble and arranged for brass and organ in 2011; Heinrich Schütz: Three Becker Psalms, Op. 5 arranged for brass qurtet; Johann Sebastian Bach: “Nun komm der heiden heiland,” BWV 659; Three Lutheran Chorales BWV 680, 687, and 651; Otto Nicolai: Church Festival Overture on “Ein Feste Burg,” Op. 31, originally for orchestra and arranged for brass and organ; Felix Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 6 in d, Op. 65; an arrangement of the last movement of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the Reformation symphony Op. 107

Jared Stellmacher and Mark Sudeith, organists, with the 2006 Rogers Op. 1038 organ at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in the Curnow, Heinrich Schütz Bach “Nun Komm…”, and Mendelssohn Sonata; The 2001 Schantz Organ Op. 2300 at the Church of the Gesu, Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the 1982 Casavant Op. 3544 in the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois in the remaining works – Chicago Gargoyle Brass Ensemble conducted by Stephen Squires

 Oct. 27 – Choral Edition

Program 2: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebstian by Claude Debussy; Ballet music to Daphnis et Chloe & One act opera L’infant et les sortilege by Maurice Ravel

Part 1: Claude Debussy: Le Martyre de saint Sébastien (The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian)

Suzanne Danco, soprano; Nancy Waugh and Marie-Lise de Montmollin, mezzo sopranos; Union Chorale de la Tour-de Peilz – L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Amsermet (1954 analog stereo)

Part 2: Maurice Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts)

Soloists, and the Choir and Orchestra of French Television and Radio conducted by Lorin Maazel (1961 analog)

Part 3: Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, symphonie chorégraphique

Choral ensemble Spirito; Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Leonard Slatkin

Oct. 28 – Orchestral Edition

Program 3: Leonard Bernstein and the NYPO – Early & Late 1960s Columbia Masterworks Symphonic Standards

Part 1a: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Marriage of Figaro overture (1968 analog); Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K. 543 (1961 analog)

Part 1b Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K551 (1968 analog)

Part 2: Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique,Op. 14 (1963 analog)

Part 3: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c minor, Op. 68 (1960 analog)

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein

 Oct. 29 – Brass Edition

Program 4: Early analog recordings of The Canadian Brass; The Artistry of trumpeters Gerard Schwarz and Niklas Eklund; The Millar Brass Ensemble

Part 1: Eldon Rathburn: Canadian Brass Rag; JS Bach (adapted): The Cathedral; GF Handel: A Royal Firework; Claude Debussy: Golliwog’s Cakewalk; Larry Crosley: Days Before Yesterday; Don Gillis: El Sueño; Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1; Don Gillis: The Joust; Scott Joplin: The Entertainer Rag; Ragtime Waltz; The Favorite Rag; Sycamore Rag; Euphonic Sounds Rag; Rosebud March; Figleaf Rag and Easy Winners Rag; TK Filmore: ‘Lasses Trombone and Slim Trombone; Amazing Grace (arr.) Bourbon Street Medley: Just a Closer Walk with Thee-Tin Roof Blues-Muskrat Ramble

The Canadian Brass (taken from the 1970s analog CBC albums “Canadian Brass Plays Rags” and “Unexplored Territory”)

Part 2a: Johann Ernst Altenberg: Concerto in D (7 trumpets); Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C (2 trumpets); Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata in C (8 trumpets); Giuseppe Torelli: Sonata a cinqe No. 1 in G (Trumpet in A); Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in D (Piccolo trumpet in A)

New York Trumpet Ensemble, Gerard Schwarz, solo trumpeter; and The Y Chamber Symphony of New York conducted by Gerard Schwarz (1979 digital)

Part 2b: George Frederick Handel: Overture to Atalanta

Niklas Eklund, solo trumpet; Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble

Part 3: Sergei Prokofief: March, Op. 99; March from Love of Three Oranges; Tylaman Susato: Six Dances from La Danserie; Edvard Grieg: Funeral March; Jean Joseph Mouret: Rondeau; Thomas Morley: Now Is the Month of Maying; Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata pian’ e forte; Canzona septimi toni, No. 2; Pavel Chesnokov: Salvation Is Created; Benjamin Britten; Russian Funeral; Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite de Danses (arr. by Jean Thilde)

The Millar Brass Ensemble (1995 digital)