Bach

Apollo's Fire: Bach's St. John's Passion

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Airs Friday, March 29 at 12 noon. Apollo's Fire- The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra under founding music director Jeannette Sorrell present Bach's St. John's Passion, with Ian Honeyman as the Evangelist; Jeffrey Strauss as Jesus; Michael McMurray as Pilate; Jolle Greenleaf & Arine Grimm sopranos; Kirsten Sollek mezzo-soprano; Richard Edgar-Wilson & Marc Molomot tenors; Tom Meglioranza baritone and Apollo's Singers & Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra. With the St. John Passion, Apollo's Fire has moved audiences in Cleveland, on tour, and across the country by radio. Sorrell and her stellar company of dramatic soloists perform the work as a sweeping saga, "revelatory ... with impassioned singing and playing bringing Bach's score to life with contemporary immediacy" (Opera News).

Summer Stages

Lauren Rico and Matt Rogers — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, November 12 at 11:00 a.m. This week on Summer Stages it's another program jam-packed with chamber delights from the Virginia Arts Festival. We'll have selections by Mozart and Dvorak and then violinist Tianwa Yang brings a bit of Bach and Hindemith. We'll hear Mozart's String Quartet No.23 in F and Dvorak's String Quartet No.14 in A-flat followed by Bach's Partita No.2 in D minor and the concert will close with Hindemith's Violin Sonata Op.31, No.2. Don’t miss this stop on Summer Stages from on Red River Radio!

Best of Carnegie Hall Live: Bach's St. John Passion

Fred Child — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Airs Thursday, September 27 at 11:00 a.m. Our final program in the best of Carnegie Hall Live series features a stellar performance of Bach's St. John Passion by Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec under the direction of Bernard Labadie with Tenor Ian Bostridge as the Evangelist, Bass-Baritone Neal Davies as Jesus, Soprano Karina Gauvin, Countertenor Damien Guillon, Tenor Nicholas Phan, and Bass-Baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann.

The Cleveland Orchestra Live

Robert Conrad — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Airs Saturday, August 11 at 12:00 noon. Red River Radio is pleased to bring back the Cleveland Orchestra for another superb season of broadcast concerts from the orchestra's home at Severance Hall in Cleveland and from concerts performed around the country and the world. On this week's concert Ton Koopman takes the podium to lead the Ocrhestra and Soprano in Bach's Cantata No. 202, “The Wedding Cantata.” This All Bach program will also feature Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1048; Bach's Sinfonia in b, BWV 208; Sinfonia in D, BWV 42; and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 .

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Kerry Frumkin & Marc Neikrug — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Airs Saturday, August 4 at 2:00 p.m. Join us for a new season of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 40th season as one of the world’s leading performing arts festivals. Artistic director Marc Neikrug and broadcast host Kerry Frumkin will take you through 13 weeks of world class chamber performances. This week we feature J.S. Bach's Piano Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052 with Shai Wosner as the pianist and Guillermo Figueroa will be the violinist for Astor Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.