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Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart. The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the "Three Donizetti Queens". The story is loosely based on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Schiller had invented the confrontation of the two Queens, who in fact never met. After a series of problems surrounding its presentation in Naples after the final dress rehearsal – including having to be re-written for a totally different location, a different time period, and with Buondelmonte as its new title – Maria Stuarda as we know it today premiered on 30 December 1835 at La Scala in Milan. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Caterina Cornaro ossia La Regina di Cipro (Caterina Cornaro or The Queen of Cyprus) is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchèro wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre (1841). It is based on the life of Caterina Cornaro (1454 - 1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489. It premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 12 January 1844. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Poliuto is a three-act tragedia lirica (or tragic opera) by Gaetano Donizetti from the Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, which was based on Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte written in 1641–42. It reflected the life of the early Christian martyr Saint Polyeuctus. Regarded by one author as Donizetti's "most personal opera" with the music being "some of the finest Donizetti was to compose", Poliuto was written in 1838 for performances planned at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples later that year. However, close to the time for rehearsals to begin, King Ferdinand II refused to allow the martyrdom of a Christian saint to be seen on stage and forbade the production. Angry at the decision and with a commission for the Paris Opéra due from the composer, Donizetti paid the penalty to the San Carlo for not producing an original work as a substitute, and left Naples for Paris arriving on 21 October. As his first commission for Paris, he decided to revise Poliuto and between 1839-40 a French text, with the title Les martyrs, was prepared by Eugene Scribe which conformed to the conventions of a French four-act grand opera, but which incorporated 80% of the music from Poliuto. It was presented in Paris on 10 April 1840. When eventually given in Italy, it was initially presented in a translation from the French version under the title of I martiri. It took until 30 November 1848, months after the composer's death, in order for Poliuto to finally appear for six performances at the San Carlo in its original Italian three-act version. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Alina, regina di Golconda (Alina, Queen of Golconda) is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani after Michel-Jean Sedaine's French libretto for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's ballet-heroine Aline, Reine de Golconde (Paris Opera, 1766), in its turn based on the novel by Stanislas de Boufflers. The opera was commissioned for the opening festivities of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, where it premiered with success on 12 May 1828. Soon after, a revised version debuted at the Teatro Valle, Rome on 10 October 1829. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber #LaunchAmerica Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor. Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera. Gioachino Rossini had recently retired and Vincenzo Bellini had died shortly before the premiere of Lucia leaving Donizetti as "the sole reigning genius of Italian opera". Not only were conditions ripe for Donizetti's success as a composer, but there was also a European interest in the history and culture of Scotland. The perceived romance of its violent wars and feuds, as well as its folklore and mythology, intrigued 19th-century readers and audiences. Sir Walter Scott dramatized these elements in his novel The Bride of Lammermoor, which inspired several musical works including Lucia. The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton (Lucia) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods. The setting is the Lammermuir Hills of Scotland (Lammermoor) in the 17th century. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Il borgomastro di Saardam (The mayor of Saardam) is an 1827 melodramma giocoso (opera buffa) in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto, by Domenico Gilardoni, was based on the 1818 play Le bourgmestre de Sardam, ou Les deux Pierres by Mélesville, Jean-Toussaint Merle and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie. Albert Lortzing's 1837 opera Zar und Zimmermann is ultimately based, via a German translation, on the same French play. The plot concerns a famous episode in the life of Peter the Great, in which he disguised himself under an assumed name as a worker in the shipyards of Saardam, and has certain similarities to Donizetti's earlier 1-act farce Il falegname di Livonia. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘mini opera’ Aristea follows the 19th-century fashion for composing celebratory scenic works with a large cast and full orchestra, in this case to honour Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies. Librettist Giovanni Schmidt recycled Aristea from an earlier abandoned opera set in idyllic Greek surroundings. This tells the classical story of enforced separation of a father from his daughter, their subsequent confusions and final happy reunion. Donizetti’s early style was influenced by Rossini but is nevertheless independent and innovative, often hinting at his later operatic masterpieces. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

Deux Hommes et une femme (Two Men and a Woman), also known as Rita, is an opéra comique in one act, composed by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Gustave Vaëz. The opera, a domestic comedy consisting of eight musical numbers connected by spoken dialogue, was completed in 1841. Never performed in Donizetti's lifetime, it premiered posthumously at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 7 May 1860. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

CMD dedicates this performance to the thousands we have lost from the COVID-19 pandemic. If man would only follow God's commandments, this never would have happened. This is broadcast is without any narratives or commercials. Began in October 1835 to commemorate the death of Donizetti's friend and rival Vincenzo Bellini in Naples, the work was left unfinished (probably due to composer unable to conduct it in December, because he was not in the city). It was published in 1870 by Lucca in a vocal with organ arrangement. The first known performance took place the same year in Donizetti's native Bergamo, in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, under Alessandro Nini. It was repeated in 1875 on the occasion of the translation of the remains of Donizetti and his teacher Simon Mayr to Santa Maria Maggiore; then on the centenary of Donizetti's birth (1897) and death (1948, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni). The manuscript is preserved in the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella (Naples). In 1974 Vilmos Leskó prepared a new Ricordi edition of the Requiem, and since then it came to be regarded as one of the most important non-operatic compositions by Donizetti. The Requiem for Bellini is one of four Requiem settings by Donizetti, but the only one to survive to the present day. Among the others were a Requiem for Niccolò Zingarelli (composed 1837 in 3 days) and a Requiem for Lorenzo Fazzini (performed in San Ferdinando, Naples, 7 November 1837). Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

Parisina (also known as Parisina d'Este) is an opera (tragedia lirica), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem Parisina. The characters of Parisina and Duke Azzo in both Byron's poem and Donizetti's opera are very loosely based on the historical figures of Parisina Malatesta (the daughter of Andrea Malatesta) and Niccolò III d'Este. Parisina premiered on 17 March 1833 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. A performance at the Teatro Argentina in Rome is the setting for a key scene in chapter 34 of the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (Rosamund of England) is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani originally for Coccia's Rosmunda (1829). It is based on the legend of Rosamund Clifford (The Fair Rosamund). Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

Il castello di Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto after Victor Hugo's play Amy Robsart (1828) and Eugene Scribe's play Leicester, both of which following from Scott's novel Kenilworth (1821). Daniel Auber composed another opera on the same subject, Leicester, ou Le chateau de Kenilworth in 1823. This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by Anna Bolena, (which was based on the life of Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII), then by Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots) which appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835. All represented the interests (even obsessions) of many Italian composers of the era, Donizetti's included, in the character of Elizabeth I, whose life he was to explore further in 1837 in his opera Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I.) The leading female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the "Three Donizetti Queens." As Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth the opera received its first performance on 6 July 1829 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples and, in a revised version at the same house, as Il castello di Kenilworth on 24 June 1830. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107

Anna Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both recount the life of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII. It is one of four operas by Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots, it appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835), and Roberto Devereux (1837, named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England). The leading female characters of the latter three operas are often referred to as "the Three Donizetti Queens." Anna Bolena premiered on 26 December 1830 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan, to "overwhelming success." Weinstock notes that only after this success did Donizetti's teacher, Johann Simon Mayr, "address his former pupil as Maestro." The composer had begun "to emerge as one of three most luminous names in the world of Italian opera", alongside Bellini and Rossini. This broadcast is from the CMD Archives. This live recording was recorded on April 14, 1957 Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

The 34th Season of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival has been canceled, however, the music still lives on! Members of our CMD Grand Opera Company in Barcelona Spain perform - Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, No. 1, K. 478 Romberg: Trio in E minor, Op. 38, No. 1 for Cello, Viola and Double Bass Saint-Saens: Septet for Piano, Trumpet and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 65 Lennon/McCartney: 9 Songs for Assorted Instruments For more information about La Musica, please visit their website at LaMusicaFestival.org Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

The 34th Season of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival has been canceled, however, the music still lives on! Members of our CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans perform - Barber: Adagio for Strings Saint-Saens: Fantasy for Violin and Harp, Op. 124 Debussy: Dances Sacred and Profane Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 114 "Trout" For more information about La Musica, please visit their website at LaMusicaFestival.org Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written from 1881–1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in Paris, with stage decorations designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Act I), Eugène Louis Carpezat and (Joseph-)Antoine Lavastre (Act II), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act III). Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahamane" and novel Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. The opera includes the popular Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais) for a soprano and mezzo-soprano, performed in Act 1 by Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika. The name Lakmé is the French rendition of Sanskrit Lakshmi, the name of the Hindu Goddess of Wealth. The opera's most famous aria is the Bell Song (L'Air des clochettes) in Act 2. In contrast to other French operas of the period, such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore. Lakmé does more than simply capture the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes. The subject of the opera - which has a contemporary setting - is in fact the colonialism of the British army in India, focusing on their poor attitudes towards Indian cultural systems and the Hindu religion. It was suggested by Gondinet as a vehicle for the American soprano Marie van Zandt. Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orlean and Chorus Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. This broadcast is also available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/JfV8r34oFdk @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

The 34th Season of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival has been canceled, however, the music still lives on! Members of our CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice perform - Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1 Dohnanyi: Piano Quintet in E-flat minor, Op. 26, No. 2 Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 For more information about La Musica, please visit their website at LaMusicaFestival.org Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

New York pianist-composer Jane Leslie has created her own signature 'crossover' style, blending elements of classical and popular music with beautiful melodies that convey a sense of peace, and touch the heart of the listener. She has been honored with several ASCAP Awards for her music, and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School, and a Doctoral degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her recordings of her original piano music can be heard on radio stations and podcasts, and are available on all the major music streaming sites. We will be hearing Jane Leslie's piano solo called “Floating,” which was recently released as a single recording. “Floating" will also be part of her upcoming album “Ocean Suite,” which will be featured on this podcast when it is released in the near future. Jane has created a music video for “Floating” which can be found on her YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/JaneLeslieMusic. More information can also be found on her website at www.janelesliemusic.com, and her Facebook page www.facebook.com/JaneLeslieMusic. https://www.janelesliemusic.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/1KpZ7MOliw4Iez8SrmWCne https://youtube.com/janelesliemusic https://facebook.com/janelesliemusic Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse. The opera was written by Donizetti while he was living in Paris between 1838 and 1840 preparing a revised version of his then-unperformed Italian opera, Poliuto, as Les martyrs for the Paris Opéra. Since Martyrs was delayed, the composer had time to write the music for La fille du régiment, his first opera set to a French text, as well as to stage the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor as Lucie de Lammermoor. La fille du régiment quickly became a popular success partly because of the famous aria "Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête!", which requires the tenor to sing no fewer than eight high Cs – a frequently sung ninth is not written. La figlia del reggimento, a slightly different Italian-language version (in translation by Calisto Bassi), was adapted to the tastes of the Italian public. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

The 34th Season of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival has been canceled, however, the music still lives on! Members of our CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice perform - Beethoven: Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3 Kodaly: Serenade, Op. 12 Dvorak: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87 For more information about La Musica, please visit their website at LaMusicaFestival.org #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn

Due to the Coronavirus, La Musica's 34th Season has been cancelled. For more information, please visit their website at LaMusicaFestival.org or call their Box Office at 941.366.8450 x 7 You may also email at info@lamusicafestival.org If you have purchased tickets, we hope you will consider your ticket purchase as a donation to help them overcome the tremendous expenses they have already incurred.

Die schöne Galathée (The Beautiful Galatea) is an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by the composer and 'Poly Henrion' (the pseudonym of Leonhard Kohl von Kohlenegg). In the early 1860s, French operettas by Jacques Offenbach were first presented in Vienna. Franz von Suppé was obliged to compete with them by taking the time-honored traditions of Vienna and combining it with the new style of Offenbach. Die schöne Galathée was Franz von Suppé's first critical success. Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans

Emilia di Liverpool is a dramma semiserio, ("half-serious") dramatic opera, in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti. Giuseppe Checcherini wrote the Italian libretto after the anonymous libretto for Vittorio Trento's Emilia di Laverpaut, itself based on Stefano Scatizzi's play of the same name. It premiered on 28 July 1824 at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. Conducted by Joana Filipe Martinez CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona This broadcast is also available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/X9jGDUdAAJc

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Dominique Beaulieu - conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Download at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p881/Brahms%3A_Symphony_No._3_and_Tchaikovsky%3A_Symphony_No._4_%28digital_download%29.html

Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 29 Harbison: Piano Trio No. 3 Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor For more information about this year's festival, please visit: https://www.lamusicafestival.org/

In this broadcast we preview the April 8, 2019 concert of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival. OPERA HOUSE CONCERT - PROGRAM I April 8, 2019 • 8:00pm Bohuslav Martinů, Serenade No.2 for Two Violins and Viola, H.216 ~ Marta Kowalczyk, Federico Agostini, Daniel Palmizio Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2 ~ Ruth Lenz, Dmitri Atapine, Derek Han Antonín Dvořák, String Sextet, Op.48 ~ Federico Agostini, Marta Kowalczyk, Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Palmizio, Christine J. Lee, Dmitri Atapine For more information, please visit: https://www.lamusicafestival.org/festival/concerts-events Purchase digital download at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p740/La_Musica_Chamber_Music_Hour_61_%28digital_download%29.html

Featuring music of Beethoven, Ravel and Dvorak.

La Musica International Chamber Music Festival performs: Mozart: String Quintet No. 6, K. 614 Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2 For more information, please visit: www.LaMusicaFestival.org

Mass (formally: MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein with text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy, it premiered on September 8, 1971, conducted by Maurice Peress and choreographed by Alvin Ailey. The performance was part of the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Mass premiered in Europe in 1973, with John Mauceri conducting the Yale Symphony Orchestra in Vienna. Originally, Bernstein had intended to compose a traditional Mass, but instead decided on a more innovative form. The work is based on the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. Although the liturgical passages are sung in Latin, Mass also includes additional texts in English written by Bernstein, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, and Paul Simon (who wrote the first quatrain of the trope "Half of the People"). The work is intended to be staged theatrically, but it has also been performed in a standard concert setting. Initial critical reception, including a review in the New York Times, was largely negative, but the Columbia Records recording of the work enjoyed excellent sales.

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material. In January 1936, halfway through this period, Pravda—under direct orders from Joseph Stalin[1]—published an editorial "Muddle Instead of Music" that denounced the composer and targeted his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Despite this attack, and despite the oppressive political climate of the time, Shostakovich completed the symphony and planned its premiere for December 1936 in Leningrad. After rehearsals began, the orchestra's management cancelled the performance, offering a statement that Shostakovich had withdrawn the work. He may have agreed to withdraw it to relieve orchestra officials of responsibility. The symphony was premiered on 30 December 1961 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra led by Kirill Kondrashin. Kathryn Cavanaugh - Executive Director and Conductor CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Orchestra

The Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63, is one of seven completed symphonies composed by Jean Sibelius. Written between 1910 and 1911, it was premiered in Helsinki on 3 April 1911 by the Philharmonia Society, with Sibelius conducting. CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu

Leonard Bernstein's magnificent music for Elia Kazan's equally-magnificent, multi Oscar-winning film On The Waterfront - with its landmark performance by Marlon Brando - has until now been available only as an oft-perfomed, re-arranged 19-minute "classical" suite, a brief 2-minute selection on "Leonard Bernstein's New York" album with the Orchestra of St. Luke's plus one short segment on a 1956 Decca collection of Columbia movie themes entitled You Can't Run Away With It. The actual original soundtrack scoring session elements have been missing for ages and were presumed lost for ever. But when Sony unearthed elements for their recent restoration of the film classic on Blu-ray, myriad cans of audio turned out to contain not just effects and film dialog but also the entire scoring sessions, probably being discovered for the first time in a half century. These recordings, captured on acetate discs for playback purposes during the sessions, included music not heard in the finished film! Recorded at Columbia Pictures' own scoring stage at the end of April 1954, these priceless recordings at last reveal the entire score in all of its magnificence. 1. On The Waterfront – Main Title (Revised) (3:26) 2. Roof Morning (1:03) 3. Scramble (1:18) 4. Riot In Church (1:57) 5. Glove Scene (1:45) 6. Glove Scene – Coda (0:54) 7. Pigeons And Beer (2:37) 8. Saloon Love (1:39) 9. Waterfront Love Theme (1:33) 10. Blue Goon Blues (2:28) 11. After Sermon (1:12) 12. Roof 3 (1:35) 13. Confession Scene (1:15) 14. Kangaroo Court (0:34) 15. Cab And Bedroom (3:59) 16. Charley’s Death (4:21) 17. Throwing The Gun (1:11) 18. Dead Pigeons (4:35) 19. The Challenge And The Fight (3:38) 20. Walk And End Title (4:09) The Extras 21. On The Waterfront – Main Title (1:28) 22. The Accident (1:59) 23. “Gott Lebet Noch” – Organ (J. S. Bach, Arr. L. Bernstein) (0:35) 24. Blue Goon Blues – Whistle (0:11)

Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and they were heavily modified. Wonderful Town premiered on Broadway in 1953, starring Rosalind Russell in the role of Ruth Sherwood, Edie Adams as Eileen Sherwood, and George Gaynes as Robert Baker. It won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress, and spawned three New York City Center productions between 1958 and 1966, a 1986 West End production and 2003 Broadway revival. It is a lighter piece than Bernstein's later works, West Side Story and Candide, but none of the songs have become as popular.

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like That", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke", and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production, conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film adaptation, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, and Best Picture.

Like Fancy Free, On the Town tells the story of three sailors during World War II and their amorous adventures on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City. The framework of a full-length musical piece, however, permitted the development of complete characters, comic situations, and a distinct theatrical personality. This personality, a rare combination of lighthearted and passionate, derived from the dramatic demands of time juxtaposed against the ominous background of the war. Surely, the personalities of its authors also influenced the show's singular identity. Furthermore, Comden and Green insured that the spirit of their writing would come to life by playing Claire and Ozzie themselves. Variety Magazine announced the show on June 7, 1944 saying, "...a group of youngsters have gotten together to stage a musical production. On the Town, scheduled for Broadway this fall will be written, produced and staged by 23 to 25 year-olds headed by Leonard Bernstein, who recently has forged to the front of the ranks of young symphonic composers and conductors.

In 1953, the renowned playwright Lillian Hellman proposed to Leonard Bernstein that they adapt Voltaire's Candide for the musical theater. Voltaire's 1758 novella satirized the fashionable philosophies of his day and, especially, the Catholic Church whose Inquisition routinely tortured and killed "heretics" in a ghastly event known as an "Auto da Fé" ("act of faith"). Hellman observed a sinister parallel between the Inquisition's church-sponsored purges and the "Washington Witch Trials," fueled by anti-Communist hysteria and waged by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Charged with rage and indignition, she began her adaptation of Voltaire's with lyricist John LaTouche and Bernstein, who wrote numerous musical sketches. Before long, LaTouche was replaced by poet Richard Wilbur. Hellman, Bernstein, and Wilbur worked periodically over the next two years but labored in earnest through 1956, a year when Bernstein was simultaneously composing West Side Story. By October 1956, Candide was ready for performances in Boston, where Dorothy Parker contributed lyrics to "The Venice Gavotte" while Bernstein and Hellman had also added lyrics of their own to other numbers. The lyricist credits were already beginning to mount up. Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

A Quiet Place is a 1983 American opera with music by Leonard Bernstein and a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. It is a sequel to Bernstein's 1951 “opera in seven scenes” Trouble in Tahiti. In its original form, A Quiet Place was in one act. Bernstein spoke of it as having a Mahlerian four-section structure. The premiere, conducted in Houston by John DeMain on June 17, 1983, was a double bill: Trouble in Tahiti, intermission, A Quiet Place. In its three-act form, Act II largely consisted of Trouble in Tahiti in flashback. This form appeared in 1984, with John Mauceri conducting in Milan and Washington. It was refined in 1986 for Vienna, where a recording was made and the composer himself conducted. Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was on his honeymoon in 1951 when he began composing his one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, a candid portrait of the troubled marriage of a young suburban couple. Written between his biggest Broadway successes— On the Town in 1944 and Candide and West Side Story in 1956 and 1957, respectively— Trouble in Tahiti draws upon popular songs styles to deliver an uncompromising critique of post-war American materialism. Beneath the couple's marital discord is a profound longing for love and intimacy. Their spiritual emptiness, in contrast to a veneer of happy consumerism, creates the heart of the drama and is emphasized by sudden stylistic shifts in the music. Bernstein dedicated the piece to his close friend Marc Blitzstein, who had led him toward music theater. Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Fancy Free Facsimile - Choreographic Essay for Orchestra Dybbuk Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Peter Pan is a 1950 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up with music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein; it opened on Broadway on April 24, 1950.[1] This version starred Jean Arthur as Peter Pan, Boris Karloff in the dual roles of George Darling and Captain Hook, and Marcia Henderson as Wendy. The show was orchestrated by Hershy Kay and conducted by Benjamin Steinberg. The show ran for 321 performances, closing on January 27, 1951. The production was initially intended as a full-blown musical, with Bernstein composing a complete score for it, but was staged with only five songs – "Who Am I?", "Pirate's Song", "Plank Round", "Build My House", and "Peter Peter" – to accommodate the limited vocal ranges of the principals. In 2000, conductor Alexander Frey learned about the full score, and restored the omitted material, which included almost an hour of previously unperformed Bernstein music. The restored songs included "Captain Hook Soliloquy" and "Dream With Me". The world premiere recording of Bernstein’s complete score was released on CD in 2005, conducted by Frey, and featuring Broadway star Linda Eder in the role of Wendy Darling, and baritone Daniel Narducci as Captain Hook, on the Koch International Classics label. In September 2008 the world premiere performance of the full Bernstein score was performed in concert with Alexander Frey conducting the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and dialogue adapted from the original J. M. Barrie play by Nina Bernstein Simmons. Three performances were given in Cascais, Portugal, for a combined audience of over 10,000 people, and featured Geraldine James (narrator), John Sackville-West (Peter Pan), Charlotte Ellett and Rachel Nicholls(Wendy) and Nicholas Lester (Captain Hook). The first stage production of the full Bernstein score was given by Santa Barbara Theater (California) in December 2008, directed by Albert Ihde and again conducted by Alexander Frey. A new chamber adaptation of the score will be produced at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in June 2018, directed by Christopher Alden.

Soft and reflective piano solos dedicated to those who love beautiful, peaceful melodies, and the warm sound of the piano. Winner of several ASCAP Awards for her music, Jane Leslie holds two degrees from Juilliard.

Belshazzar's Feast, Op. 51, is incidental music by Jean Sibelius to a play of the same name by the journalist, poet and playwright Hjalmar Fredrik Eugen Procopé. Sibelius composed in 1906 eight movements, scored for orchestra, with singers also being required in some numbers. The Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52, by Jean Sibelius is a symphony in three movements composed in 1907. Coming between the romantic intensity of Sibelius's first two symphonies and the more austere complexity of his later symphonies, it is a good-natured, triumphal, and deceptively simple-sounding piece. The symphony's first performance was given by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, conducted by the composer, on 25 September 1907. In the same concert, his suite from the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, Op. 51, was also performed for the first time. Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans

Coronation Mass in C Major, K 317 Symphony No. 32 in G Major, K. 318 Symphony No. 33 in B-flat Major, K. 319 Posthorn Serenade for Orchestra No. 9 in D Major, K. 320 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Boys Choir of France CMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus of Orleans

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans

Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), Op. 75, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928. Strauss had written the title role with Maria Jeritza in mind but, creating quite a sensation at the time, the Dresden opera management refused to pay Jeritza's large fee and cast Elisabeth Rethberg instead as Helen of Troy. Jeritza eventually created the part in Vienna and New York City. As inspiration for the story, Hofmannsthal used sources from Euripides and Stesichorus. Strauss made changes to the opera in 1933, five years after the premiere, working with the director Lothar Wallenstein and the conductor Clemens Krauss. Joana Filipe Martinez - conductor/producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p632/R_Strauss%3A_The_Egyptian_Helena_%28digital_download%29.html

The Little Nothings Ballet, K. 299b Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Dominique Beaulieu, conductor Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p594/Mozart_at_22.html

Intermezzo, Op. 72, is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to his own German libretto, described as a Bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen (bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes). It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 4 November 1924, with sets that reproduced Strauss' home in Garmisch. The first Vienna performance was in January 1927. The story depicts fictionally the personalities of Strauss himself (as "Robert Storch") and his wife Pauline (as "Christine") and was based on real incidents in their lives. Pauline Strauss was not aware of the opera's subject before the first performance. After Lotte Lehmann had congratulated Pauline on this "marvelous present to you from your husband", Pauline's reply was reported as "I don't give a damn". The most celebrated music from the opera is the orchestral interludes between scenes. His usual librettist up to that time, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, refused to work on the opera and suggested that Strauss himself write the libretto, which he eventually did after having been refused by other writers. This is why the libretto is not in verse but in prose and even mimics the dialect used by the servants in the play, against the more polished German of the principals. The opera's title is intended to refer to the intermezzi that used to be staged during the intermissions of serious operas during the 18th century, sort of mini-comic-operas, easy to follow with themes usually about marital confusions and other light comedies. Joana Filipe Martinez - conductor/producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p593/R_Strauss%3A_Intermezzo%2C_Op._72.html

The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, by Jean Sibelius was started in winter 1901 in Rapallo, Italy, shortly after the successful premiere of the popular Finlandia, and finished in 1902 in Finland. Sibelius said, "My second symphony is a confession of the soul." Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Download the digital copy at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p591/Sibelius%3A_Symphony_No._2_in_D_Major%2C_Op._43.html

Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, sometimes known as the “Symphony of Pauses,” was completed in 1872. It was actually the fourth symphony composed by Bruckner, after the Study Symphony in F minor (1863), the Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1866), and the Symphony "No. 0" in D minor (1869). Conducted by Sylvia Wagner CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Purchase the digital download now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p587/Bruckner%3A_Symphony_No._2_in_C_minor_%28first_version%29_%22Symphony_of_the_Pauses%22.html

Symphony No. 1 - Jeremiah Symphony No. 2 - The Age of Anxiety Symphony No. 3 - Kaddish Dominique Beaulieu and Joana Filipe Martinez, conductors CMD Paris Philharmonic of Orleans CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain Joana Filipe Martinez, solo piano (Symphony No. 2) Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p586/Leonard_Bernstein_-_The_Three_Symphonies.html

The Symphony in D minor, WAB 100, was composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869 between Symphony No. 1 (1866) and Symphony No. 2 (1872). In 1895 Bruckner declared that this symphony "gilt nicht" (does not count) and he did not assign a number to it. The work was published and premiered in 1924. Sylvia Wagner, conductor CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p585/Bruckner%3A_Symphony_No._0_in_D_minor%2C_WAB_100%2C_%22Nullte%22%2C_Nowak_Critical_Edition.html

14135 The First Symphonies 12 Grechaninov: Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 6 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major CMD German Opera Company of Berlin Orchestra Conducted by Kenneth Hedgecock Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p577/The_First_Symphonies_12.html

APRIL 9, 2018 OPERA HOUSE CONCERT Program I Monday, April 9, 2018 8:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House Mozart, String Quintet in G minor, K.516 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti Glazunov, String Quintet in A major, Op. 39 Ruth Lenz, Federico Agostini, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti, Christine Lee Schubert, Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb major, Op. 100, D.929 Claudio Cruz, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han

In this broadcast we preview the April 18, 2018 concert of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival. Bernstein, Piano Trio Federico Agostini, Christine Lee, Derek Han Brahms, Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40 (viola version) Ruth Lenz, Daniel Palmizio, Derek Han Schubert, String Quintet in C major, Op. 163, D.956 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Erica Piccotti, Antonio Meneses ~ James P. Roque, SunTrust Private Wealth Management, Corporate Season Sponsor ~ Herald-Tribune Media Group, Media Season Sponsor Order tickets now at: https://www.lamusicafestival.org/index.php/festival/concerts

Halvorsen: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Grieg: Symphony in C minor Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans

Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Combining slapstick comedy and consummately beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention. Joana Filipe Martinez - conductor/producer CMD Grand Opera Company of Barcelona Spain

Program III Sunday, April 15, 2018 3:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House Paganini, Terzetto Concertante in D major, MS 114 Daniel Palmizio, Christine Lee, Jason Vieaux Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet in F major, Op. 143 Jason Vieaux, Ruth Lenz, Claudio Cruz, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han ~ James P. Roque, SunTrust Private Wealth Management, Corporate Season Sponsor ~ Herald-Tribune Media Group, Media Season Sponsor Single concert price: $40.00 Order now at: https://www.lamusicafestival.org/index.php/festival/concerts

Preview of April 12, 2018 concert at the Sarasota Opera House Program II Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House Mendelssohn, String Quintet No. 2 in Bb major, Op. 87 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Palmizio, Christine Lee Popper, Requiem in F# minor for Three Cellos and Piano, Op. 66 Christine Lee, Erica Piccotti, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han Rachmaninoff, Trio Elegiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9 Claudio Cruz, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han Purchase tickets at: https://www.lamusicafestival.org/festival/online-orders

Schubert: ​Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 ​Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p574/The_First_Symphonies_10.html

A look ahead to the opening 2018 concert of La Musica International Chamber Music Festival. APRIL 9, 2018 OPERA HOUSE CONCERT Program I Monday, April 9, 2018 8:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House Mozart, String Quintet in G minor, K.516 Federico Agostini, Ruth Lenz, Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti Glazunov, String Quintet in A major, Op. 39 Ruth Lenz, Federico Agostini, Daniel Palmizio, Erica Piccotti, Christine Lee Schubert, Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb major, Op. 100, D.929 Claudio Cruz, Antonio Meneses, Derek Han ~ James P. Roque, SunTrust Private Wealth Management, Corporate Season Sponsor ~ Herald-Tribune Media Group, Media Season Sponsor Single concert price: $40.00 https://www.lamusicafestival.org/index.php/festival/concerts

Bruckner: Symphony No. 00 Study Symphony in F minor Meij: Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p572/The_First_Symphonies_9.html

Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an existing libretto by Antonio Piazza probably called Rocester. It was Verdi's first opera, written over a period of four years and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 17 November 1839. The La Scala production enjoyed "a fair success" and the theatre's impresario, Bartolomeo Merelli, commissioned two further operas from the young composer. Performed by the CMD Grand Opera Company of Venice Recorded by CMD Recordings Purchase now at : http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p573/Verdi%3A_Oberto.html

Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478 Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 5 in E-flat Schoenberg: Transfigured Night

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ( Songs of a Wayfarer ) is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four songs for medium voice (oft Performed by women as well as men) what written around 1884-85 in the wake of Mahler's unhappy love for soprano Johanna Richter , whom he met while conductor of the opera house in Kassel , Germany and orchestrated and revised in the 1890s. Natalie Schoenberg, mezzo-soprano Dominique Beaulieu, conductor ​CMD Paris Philharmonic in Orleans Order now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p571/Mahler%3A_Song_of_a_Wayfarer.html

Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 in G minor Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 1 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Kalinnikov: Finale from Symphony No. 1 in G minor Ken Hedgecock, conductor (age 15) Kansas State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p566/The_First_Symphonies_8.html

Our landmark 50th edition of La Musica Chamber Music Hour from our sponsor, La Musica International Chamber Music Festival. Mozart: Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "Trout Quintet" For more information on La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, please visit: www.LaMusicaFestival.org

Stravinsky: Symphony in E-flat Major, Op. 1 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11 Dominique Beaulieu, conductor CMD Philharmonic of Paris in Orleans Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p563/The_First_Symphonies_%237.html

Music skated to by Olympic Silver medalist, Yevgenia Medvedeva. Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, op. 74 (Pathetique) Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti) Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Swan Lake Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti) Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Eugene Onegin Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti) Galina Gorchakova, soprano Galina Gorchakova appears courtesy of Philips Classics Productions Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35 Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti) Maxim Vengerov, violin Maxim Vengerov appears courtesy of Teldec Classics GmbH Hamburg Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Vespers, Op. 37/2 Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by St. Petersburg Chamber Choir Conducted by Nikolai Kornev (as Nikolai Korniev) Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Vespers, Op. 37/5 Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by St. Petersburg Chamber Choir Conducted by Nikolai Kornev (as Nikolai Korniev) Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Song About Alexander Nevsky Written by Sergei Prokofiev Performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra amd The St. Petersburg Chamber Choir Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti) Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Harvesting the Field Performed by Natasha Alymova, Zhenya Kirichenko, Zhenya Morozova, Masha Shpakovskaya Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Cavalry Officers' Party Performed by Radmila Ivanova, Viktor Rapotikhin, Yura Schchukin, Yura Slatsov, Maria Vengelevskaya, Rada Vengelevskaya Courtesy of Icon Records and London Records Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G Minor Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by Beaux Arts Trio Courtesy of Philips Classics by arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Licensing Elegie, Op. 3/1 Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by Howard Shelley Courtesy of Hyperion Records by arrangement with Source/Q Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 36 Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by Howard Shelley Courtesy of Hyperion Records by arrangement with Source/Q Prelude in F Sharp Minor, Op. 23/1 Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff Performed by Howard Shelley Courtesy of Hyperion Records by arrangement with Source/Q Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p561/Leo_Tolstoy%27s_Anna_Karenina_Movie_Soundtrack.html

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Riccardo Chailly makes his debut recording with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with the first ever recording of Stravinsky’s ‘Chant Funèbre’ (Funeral Song), a piece everyone believed lost forever. Purchase now at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p530/Stravinsky%3A_Funeral_Chant%2C_Fireworks%2C_The_Faun_and_the_Sherpherdess%2C_The_Rite_of_Spring.html