MON.    DECEMBER  1  Franz Xaver Richter (1709) / Giuseppe Sarti (1729) / Agathe Backer-Grondahl (1847) / Dorothy James (1901) / Gordon Crosse (1937)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Get the Picture «» Music inspired by visual arts. (Program 1 of 5)

 

6 pm     Mario Lanza and Friends (at 6:55 pm)

 

7 pm     Monday Evening Piano Concerto

 

8 pm     GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Rudolf Firkusny «» Music of Smetana, Martinu, Dvorak, and Janacek

 

9 pm     Auber: Fra Diavolo (Overture);  F.X. Richter: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings in D Major;  Elgar: Coronation Ode, op. 44

 

10 pm    Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano;  Mozart: Violin Concerto #3 in G Major, K. 216;  Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C Minor, op. 65

 

 

TUE.     DECEMBER  2  Henry Thacker Burleigh (1866) / Sir John Barbirolli (1899) / Adolph Green (1915) / Maria Callas (1923) / Jörg Demus (1928)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Get the Picture «» Music inspired by visual arts. (Program 2 of 5)

 

8 pm     EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Italian-American Singers

 

 

WED.    DECEMBER  3  Nicolo Amati (1596) / Padre Antonio Soler (1729) / Anton Webern (1883) / Nino Rota (1911) / Irving Fine (1914) / Phyllis Curtin (1922)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Get the Picture «» Music inspired by visual arts. (Program 3 of 5)

 

9 pm     Rota: The Leopard (Film Score) (Dances);  Soler: Concerto for 2 Keyboard Instruments #1 in C Major;  Stravinsky: Symphony in C

 

10 pm    Webern: Im Sommerwind (Idyll for Large Orchestra);  Schubert: Piano Sonata in D Major, D. 850 (op. 53)

 

11 pm    Fine: Serious Song (A Lament for String Orchestra);  Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 43

 

 

THU.     DECEMBER  4  Christoph Loeffelholz von Colberg (1572) / André Campra (1660) / Johann Friedrich Burgmüller (1806) / Sir Hamilton Harty (1879) / Yvonne Minton (1938)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Get the Picture «» Music inspired by visual arts. (Program 4 of 5)

 

6 pm     Strauss: Horn Concerto #2 in E-flat Major;  Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan (for Double String Quartet and Orchestra)

 

7 pm     Alwyn: Symphony #1;  Bainton: The Golden River (Suite for Orchestra after Ruskin), op. 16

 

8 pm     Carpenter: Sea Drift;  Beethoven: Mass in C Major, op. 86

 

9 pm     GOOD FOLK «» New Folk «» Pete Seeger at 89;  Cherryholmes III: Don’t Believe;  Karan Casey: Ships in the Forest;  Blackmore’s Night: Secret Voyage;  Alyssa: Within;  The Kurt Henry Band: Heart, Mind and All Acoustic Rainbow #32

 

11 pm    NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Lisa Hilton: Sunny Day Theory;  Ola Gjeillo: Stone Rose

 

 

  FRI.     DECEMBER  5  Francesco Geminiani (1687) / José Carreras (1946)

 

10 am    Handel: Water Music (Suite #1 in F Major)

         

11 am    Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op 71 (Suite, op. 71a)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Get the Picture «» Music inspired by visual arts. (Program 5 of 5)

 

 

SAT.     DECEMBER  6  Ira Gershwin (1896) / Dave Brubeck (1920) / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929) / Henryk-Mikolaj Górecki (1933)

 

9 am     Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto #1

 

  noon     Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:77 (op. 76/#3) “Emperor”;  Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, S. 1050;  Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (“Bacchanale”)

 

1 pm     Menotti: Sebastian;  Nielsen: Symphony #1 in G Minor, op. 7

 

2 pm     Debussy: Three Nocturnes for Orchestra;  Rodgers: South Pacific (Medley);  Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain;  Fauré: Pavane, op. 50

 

3 pm     Copland: Canticle of Freedom;  Holst: St. Paul’s Suite (for Strings), op. 29/#2

 

6 pm     ONE GREAT SONG «» Smoke Gets In Your Eyes «» Recordings by Irene Dunne (Roberta Soundtrack), John Lewis, Clifford Brown, Don Byas, The Platters, Artie Shaw, Thelonious Monk, and Roberta Gambarini

 

 

SUN.     DECEMBER  7  Bernardo Pasquini (1637) / Teodoro Cottrau (1827) / Hermann Goetz (1840) / Pietro Mascagni (1863) / Rudolf Friml (1879) / Ernst Toch (1887) / Richard Franko Goldman (1910) / Krystian Zimerman (1956)

 

3 pm     THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Alisa Weilerstein, cello «» Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B-flat Major, K. 1051;  Penderecki: Cello Concerto #2;  Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C Minor, op. 67

 

 

MON.    DECEMBER  8  Johann Christoph Bach (1642) / Fantisek Dusek (1731) / Jean Sibelius (1865) / Manuel Ponce (1882) / Bohuslav Martinů (1890) / James Galway (1939)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Berlioz «» A five-part biography on the life of Hector Berlioz. (Program 1 of 5)

 

6 pm     Mario Lanza and Friends (at 6:55 pm)

 

7 pm     Monday Evening Piano Concerto

 

8 pm     GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Ruth Laredo «» Music of Prokofiev, Brahms, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin

 

9 pm     Williams: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Film Score) (Suite);  Martinu: Tre Ricercari (for 2 Pianos and Small Orchestra);  Sibelius: String Quartet in D Minor, op. 56 “Voces intimæ”

 

10 pm    Crumb: Star Child;  Mercadante: Flute Concerto in D Major

         

11 pm    Still: Out of the Silence;  Britten: St. Nicolas (A Cantata)

 

 

TUE.     DECEMBER  9  Emil Waldteufel (1837) / Joaquín Turina (1882) / Conchita Supervia (1895) / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915) / Alan Ridout (1934) / Tatiana Troyanos (1938) / Joshua Bell (1967)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Berlioz «» A five-part biography on the life of Hector Berlioz. (Program 2 of 5)

 

8 pm     EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Wagner: Parsifal (Part 1)

 

 

WED.    DECEMBER  10  Errico Petrella (1813) / César Franck (1822) / Theodor Kirchner (1823) / Paul Dessau (1894) / Olivier Messiaen (1908) / Morton Gould (1913) / Yuri Temirkanov (1938) / Sarah Chang (1980)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Berlioz «» A five-part biography on the life of Hector Berlioz. (Program 3 of 5)

 

9 pm     Gould: Spirituals (for Orchestra);  Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue (for Piano);  Strauss: Macbeth (Symphonic Poem), op. 23

         

10 pm    Messiaen: Chronochromie;  Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K. 466

         

11 pm    Carter: Three Occasions for Orchestra (“A Celebration of Some 100x150 Notes”; “Remembrance”; “Anniversary”);  Vaughan Williams: Symphony #3 “A Pastoral Symphony”

 

 

THU.     DECEMBER  11  Manuel Cardoso (1566) / Charles Wesley (1757) / Hector Berlioz (1803) / Eugene Thayer (1838) / Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (1892) / Elliott Carter (1908) / James McCracken (1926)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Berlioz «» A five-part biography on the life of Hector Berlioz. (Program 4 of 5)

 

6 pm     Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong;  Beach: Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, op. 45

 

7 pm     Foote: String Quartet #1 in G Minor, op. 4;  Poulenc: Gloria for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra

 

8 pm     Dvorak: In Nature’s Realm (Concert Overture), op. 91;  Raff: Symphony #5 in E Major, op. 177 “Lenore”

 

9 pm     GOOD FOLK «» The Folk Scene Collection «» The Folk Scene Collection, Volumes 1 and 2;  John Fahey: Old Fashioned Love

         

11 pm    NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Doug Hammer: Noël;  Yo-Yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace;  Ken Elkinson: Generations of Yuletide

 

 

  FRI.     DECEMBER  12  Lodovico Giustini (1685) / Kurt Atterberg (1887) / Frank Sinatra (1915) / Frank Ahrold (1931)

 

10 am    Hummel: Piano Concerto #2 in A Minor, op. 85

         

11 am    Chopin: Les Sylphides

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Berlioz «» A five-part biography on the life of Hector Berlioz. (Program 5 of 5)

 

 

SAT.     DECEMBER  13  Thomas Walter (1696) / Josef Lhévinne (1874) / Samuel Dushkin (1891) / Jonel Perlea (1900) / Carlos Montoya (1903)

 

10 am    Bach: Suite for Cello #1 in G Major, S. 1007

 

  noon     Limmer: Quintet for Piano and Strings in D Minor, op. 13

 

1 pm     Bizet (arr. Serebrier): Carmen Symphony (for Winds)

 

2 pm     Satie: Parade;  Saint-Saëns: Suite for Cello and Piano,  op. 16

 

3 pm     Dvorak: Symphonic Rhapsody in A Minor, op. 14

 

6 pm     ONE GREAT SONG «» Out of Nowhere «» Recordings by Bing Crosby, Sonny Criss, Django Reinhardt, Red Norvo, Charlie Parker, Lena Horne, and Paul Desmond

 

 

SUN.     DECEMBER  14  Dobri Christoph (1875) / Manolis Kalomiris (1883) / Charles Seeger (1886) / Spike Jones (1911) / Rosalyn Tureck (1914) / Richard Cassilly (1927) / Ron Nelson (1929) / Christopher Parkening (1947)

 

3 pm     THE NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA «» William Boughton, conductor; Rafael Wallfisch, cello «» Beethoven: Egmont (Incidental Music), op. 84 (Overture);  Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor;  Boëllmann: Variations for Cello and Orchestra;  Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 in B Minor, op. 74 “Pathétique”

 

 

MON.    DECEMBER  15  Christoph Demantius (1567) / Michel Richard Delalande (1657) / Ida Haendel (1924) / Raina Kabaivanska (1934)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» In a Family Way «» Families making music through the generations, each with their own stories and traditions to share. (Program 1 of 5)

 

6 pm     Mario Lanza and Friends (at 6:55 pm)

 

7 pm     Monday Evening Piano Concerto

 

8 pm     GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» John Ogdon «» Music of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Liszt, and Chaminade

 

9 pm     Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away (Fantasy-Overture);  Verdi: Capriccio (Introduction, Variations and Coda) for Bassoon and Orchestra;  Schumann: Symphony #4 in D Minor, op. 120

         

10 pm    Danielpour: Urban Dances (Dance Suite in Five Movements);  Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto #4 in C Minor, op. 44

         

11 pm    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms;  Beethoven: String Quartet #10 in E-flat Major, op. 74 “Harp”

 

 

TUE.     DECEMBER  16  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770) / François Boieldieu (1775) / Zoltán Kodály (1882) / Sir Noel Coward (1899) / Thea King (1925) / Rodion Shchedrin (1932) / Trevor Pinnock (1946)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» In a Family Way «» Families making music through the generations, each with their own stories and traditions to share. (Program 2 of 5)

 

8 pm     EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Wagner: Parsifal (Part 2)

 

 

WED.    DECEMBER  17  Domenico Cimarosa (1749) / Arthur Fiedler (1894)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» In a Family Way «» Families making music through the generations, each with their own stories and traditions to share. (Program 3 of 5)

 

9 pm     Anderson: Sleigh Ride;  Delius: Sea Drift;  Rossini (arr. Respighi): La Boutique Fantasque

 

10 pm    Bach: Christmas Oratorio, S. 248 (“Shepherds’ Pastorale”);  Finzi: In Terra Pax (Cantata), op. 39;  Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op. 71 (complete)

 

 

THU.     DECEMBER  18  Philipp Dulichius (1562) / Edward MacDowell (1860) / Lionel Monckton (1861)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» In a Family Way «» Families making music through the generations, each with their own stories and traditions to share. (Program 4 of 5)

 

6 pm     Grétry: Flute Concerto in C Major;  Rheinberger: Trio for Violin, Cello and Organ in C Minor, op. 149

 

7 pm     Lalo: Symphony in G Minor;  Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande (Incidental Music), op. 46

 

8 pm     Brahms (orch. Rubbra): Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24

 

9 pm     GOOD FOLK «» A Midwinter Night’s Dream «» Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night’s Dream;  Mary Chapin Carpenter: Come Darkness, Come Light—Twelve Songs of Christmas;  Gretchen Peters: Northern Lights;  Seay: A Winter Blessing;  Nóirin Ní Riain: Celtic JoyPutumayo Presents a Jazz and Blues Christmas

 

11 pm    NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Koala Christmas;  Tim Neumark: Christmas—Solo Piano

 

 

  FRI.     DECEMBER  19  Louis Nicolas Clérambault (1676) / George Frederick Bristow (1825) / Bronislaw Hubermann (1882) / Fritz Reiner (1888) / Edith Piaf (1915)

 

10 am    Beethoven: Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36

         

11 am    Dvorak: Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» In a Family Way «» Families making music through the generations, each with their own stories and traditions to share. (Program 5 of 5)

 

 

SAT.     DECEMBER  20  Henry Hadley (1871) / Vagn Holmboe (1909) / John Harbison (1938)

 

11 am    Harbison: Symphony #1

 

  noon     Milhaud: Symphony #4, op. 281;  Shostakovich: Ballet Suite #3, op. 91d

 

1 pm     L. Mozart (form. attr. Haydn): Toy Symphony

 

2 pm     Field: Piano Concerto #7 in C Minor

 

3 pm     Bach: Magnificat in D Major, S. 243

 

6 pm     ONE GREAT SONG «» They Say It’s Wonderful «» Recordings by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton, Lennie Niehaus, Bob Brookmeyer, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Charles, McPherson, and Judy Garland and Howard Keel

 

 

SUN.     DECEMBER  21  Zdenek Fibich (1850) / Leroy Robertson (1896) / Julius Chajes (1910) / Michael Tilson Thomas (1944) / András Schiff (1953)

 

3 pm     A LEROY ANDERSON CHRISTMAS «» Leonard Slatkin and Kurt Anderson present Leroy Anderson’s Christmas music: Sleigh Ride and A Christmas Festival with Leroy Anderson conducting his orchestra, and the Suite of Carols for String Orchestra, the Suite of Carols for Woodwind Ensemble, and the Suite of Carols for Brass Choir, with Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra.

 

 

MON.    DECEMBER  22  Karl Friedrich Abel (1723) / Giovanni Bottesini (1821) / Franz Schmidt (1874) / Edgard Varèse (1883) / André Kostelanetz (1901) / Felix Slatkin (1915)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Bach’s Christmas Oratorio «» An exploration of the six cantatas performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in December 1734. (Program 1 of 5)

 

6 pm     Mario Lanza and Friends (at 6:55 pm)

 

7 pm     Monday Evening Piano Concerto

 

8 pm     GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Mieczyslav Horszowski «» Music of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn, and Debussy

 

9 pm     Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches (#2 “Noël”);  Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors

         

10 pm    holiday selections by the Cambridge Singers and by the Canadian Brass;  Handel: Messiah (excerpts)

 

 

TUE.     DECEMBER  23  Tomás Torrejón y Velasco (1644) / Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689) / Jean-Noël Hamal (1709) / Edouard de Reszke (1853) / Giacomo Puccini (1858) / Claudio Scimone (1934)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Bach’s Christmas Oratorio «» An exploration of the six cantatas performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in December 1734. (Program 2 of 5)

 

8 pm     EVENING AT THE OPERA «» 2 Ivanovs and 1 Ivanova in Russian Opera

 

 

WED.    DECEMBER  24  Peter Cornelius (1824) / Enrique Fernandez Arbós (1863) / Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881) / Lucrezia Bori (1887) / Franz Waxman (1906) / Zara Nelsova (1918) / Claude Frank (1925)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Bach’s Christmas Oratorio «» An exploration of the six cantatas performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in December 1734. (Program 3 of 5)

 

THU.     DECEMBER  25  Orlando Gibbons (1583) / José Jiménez (1601) / Giuseppe de Luca (1876) / Gladys Swarthout (1904) / Cab Calloway (1907) / Noël Lee (1924)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Bach’s Christmas Oratorio «» An exploration of the six cantatas performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in December 1734. (Program 4 of 5)

 

6 pm     Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales;  Mockridge: Miracle on 34th Street (Film Score) (Suite)

 

7 pm     Bach:  Christmas Oratorio (Sinfonia);  Saint-Saëns: Oratorio de Noël, op. 12

 

8 pm     Addinsell: Scrooge (Film Score) (Suite);  Gruber/Mohr: Silent Night, Holy Night (with narration)

 

 

  FRI.     DECEMBER  26  Johann Georg Pisendel (1687) / Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901) / Earle Brown (1926) / Teresa Kubiak (1937) / Adriana Maliponte (1942) / Antonio Molina (1948) / André-Michel Schub (1952)

 

10 am    Hummel: Piano Concerto #3 in B Minor, op. 89

         

11 am    Chopin: Piano Sonata #3 in B Minor, op. 58

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Bach’s Christmas Oratorio «» An exploration of the six cantatas performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in December 1734. (Program 5 of 5)

 

 

SAT.     DECEMBER  27  Bernard van Dieren (1884) / Marlene Dietrich (1901) / Oscar Levant (1906)

 

9 am     Levant: Sonatina for Piano

 

  noon     Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden (Suite);  Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate (Motet), K. 165

 

1 pm     Gallico: The Snow Goose (with narration);  Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano

 

2 pm     Teixeira: Te Deum

 

6 pm     ONE GREAT SONG «» Softly as in a Morning Sunrise «» Recordings by The New Moon, Sonny Criss, Bob Haggart, Bobby Darin, Artie Shaw, June Christy, and George Benson

 

 

SUN.     DECEMBER  28  Johann Krieger (1651) / Johann Christian Cannabich (1731) / Roger Sessions (1896) / Earl “Fatha” Hines (1905)

 

3 pm     THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Ton Koopman, conductor; Sunhae Im, soprano; Andreas Scholl, countertenor; Jörg Dürmüller, tenor; Detlef Roth, baritone; The Westminster Symphonic Choir and Chorus (Joe Miller, director) «» Handel: Messiah

 

 

MON.    DECEMBER  29  Pablo Casals (1876) / Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912) / Roman Vlad (1919)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Nationalism (Program 1 of 5) «» Poles, Czechs, and Rumanians

 

6 pm     Mario Lanza and Friends (at 6:55 pm)

 

7 pm     Monday Evening Piano Concerto

 

8 pm     GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Jorge Bolet «» Music of Liszt, Chopin/Godowsky, Strauss/Tausig, and Sgambati

 

9 pm     Berlioz: Quartetto e Coro dei Maggi (for Chorus and Orchestra);  Dufay: Missa “Ecce ancilla Domini”;  Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28

         

10 pm    holiday selections sung by Leontyne Price;  Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ, op. 25

 

 

TUE.     DECEMBER  30  William Croft (1678) / André Messager (1853) / Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904) / Paul Bowles (1910) / Sir David Willcocks (1919) / Noel “Paul” Stookey (1937) / Jeff Lynne (1947)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Nationalism (Program 2 of 5) «» Hungary

 

8 pm     EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Verdi: Falstaff

 

 

WED.    DECEMBER  31  Ernest John Moeran (1894) / Silvestre Revueltas (1899) / Nathan Milstein (1904) / Jule Styne (1905) / Jaap Schröder (1925) / Odetta (1930) / John Denver (1943)

 

5 pm     EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin «» Nationalism (Program 3 of 5) «» France