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Classical Discoveries
Wednesdays from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

AT:

a special early music series devoted to lesser known works

is back for the summer and will air every Thursday morning starting June 7th from 5:00 till 9:00am

Check this website a few days before each program for program highlights.

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Here is a list of some works which will be presented:

Program will be announced

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast till July 13, 2018)

Summer Edition of
TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Here is a list of some of the works which will be presented:

Program will be announced

Playlist and MP3 File*(available after the broadcast till July 13, 2018)

RECENTLY AIRED PROGRAMS

Summer Edition of
TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Joan Barter (ca. 1650-1706), Nicolas Bernier (1664-1734), Francesco Durante (1684-1755), Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521), Francesco Mancini (1672-1737), Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (ca. 1633-1693), Jacobo Da Bologna, John Taverner, Andrea Zani and others

Art: Zürich Zentral bibliothek Ms.C54-Nürnberg. ca1472- Codex Schürstab

Playlist and MP3 File*(available after the broadcast till July 06, 2018)

Peter Garland (1952- ), Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Shirish Corde (1945- ), Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Judith Shatin (1949- ) , János Tamás (1936-1995), Brad Warnaar (1950- ), Chiel Meijering, Jocelyn Morlock, Michael John Trotta, Theo Verbey
and others

Art: Untitled - by English Artist: Margaret Erber

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast till July 06, 2018)

Summer Edition of
TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Antonia Bembo (c. 1640-c.1720), John Blow (1649-1708), Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-c.1515), Henry Desmarest (1661-1741), Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (c. 1664-1729), Giacomo Carissimi, Andreas Christoph Clamer, Matthaeus Pipelare, and others

Playlist and MP3 File*(available after the broadcast till June 28, 2018)

Vyacheslav Artyomov (1940- ), Marian Borkowski (1934- ), David Finko (1936- ) Katherine Hoover (1937- ), Aminollah Hossein (1905-1983), Akira Ifukube (1914-2006), Mark Janello (1961- ), Marc Mellits (1966- ), Stanisław Moryto (1947-2018), Alexander Vladigerov (1954- )
More Spirit than Matter for Baroque Ensemble by American composer, Carolyn Yarnell (1961-), Frangiz Ali-Zade, Josquin des Prez, Paweł Łukaszewski and others

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast till June 28, 2018)

Summer Edition of
TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Jan Josef Ignac Brentner (1689-1742), Gian Carlo Cailò (ca. 1655-1722), Camillo Cortellini (1561-1630), Francesco Corselli (1702-1778), Johann Philipp Krieger (1649-1725)
r, Nicolas Ludford (c. 1485-c. 1557), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Isabella Leonarda, Antonius Romanus
and others

Playlist

Sydney Guillaume (1982- ), Pavel Karmanov (1970- ), Julius Juzeliūnas (1916-2001), Imants Kalniņš (1941- ), Olga Kroupova (1966- ), Thomas Oboe Lee (1945- )
, Marcus Paus (1979- ), Matthew Whiteside (1988- ), Miłosz Bembinow, Malek Jandali, Zygmunt Krauze,
Paola Prestini, Martin Scherzinger and others

Art: Roofs by Polish artist Iwona Altmayer

Playlist

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 from 5:00 till 11:00

Philip Blackburn (1962- ), Peter Child (1953- ), Alejandro D. Consolacion II (1980- ), David Diamond (1915-2005), Johanna Doderer (1969- ), Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Shinuh Lee, Michael Nyman (1944- ), Lorenzo Palomo (1938- ), Flint Juventino Beppe (Fred Jonny Berg), Sylvia Bodorova, Christopher Coleman, John Musto, Anatal Vieru, and others

Art: Backyard with Tree by American Artist, Dr. Laurie Sucher-Gaster (1942-2009)

Playlist

Special Edition of
TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Hugh Aston (c. 1485-1558), Lambert de Sayve (1549-1614), Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650), Mateo Flecha (1481-1553), Johannes Ghiselin-Verbonet (1455-1511), Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1655-1729), Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722), Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Bartolomeus de Bononia, Angelo Ragazzi, Paul Schaffer, and others

Playlist

Classical Discoveries presents: AMERICAN MUSIC FOR MEMORIAL DAY

Classical Discoveries will celebrate Memorial Day with a program of music by American composers.

From 8:30 until 11:00 Guest American/Australian Composer Douglas Knehans

Playlist

Paul Giger (1952- ), Jānis Ivanovs (1906-1983), Christopher Keyes (1963- ), Sverre Indris Joner (1963- ), Arvydas Malcys (1957- ), Randall Woolf (1959- ), Mikołaj Zieleński (c. 1550- c.1615), John Luther Adams, Vijay Iyer, Francesco Mancini, Naomi Singer and others
10:00-11:00am - Guest - Cellist Ovidiu Marinescu

Playlist

Joaquín Clerch (1965- ), Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Peter Feuchtwanger (1930-2016), Akira Ifukube (1914-2006), Emily Rutherford (1993- ), Timo Steiner (1976- ), James M. Stephenson (1969- ), Basil Athanasiadis, Chen Yi, Aftab Darvishi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alexander Raskatov, Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred, Andrea Tarrodi and others

Guest from 10:00-10:30, the American pianist and composer, Eric Houghton

Art: Back Gardens Holdenhurst Avenue by English Artist: Margaret Erber

Playlist

Wednesday, May 02, 2018 from 5:00 till 11:00

Special FUND DRIVE EDITION Day 2

The entire program will consist of compositions which stand for what Classical Discoveries has been all about for its 21 years. There will be many works by living composers from all over the world as well as a number of wonderful pieces of Early Music. 
Playlist

Fund Drive program will be not archived

#WPRB2018

Special FUND DRIVE EDITION Day 1

George Crumb, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Michael Daugherty, Kenneth Fuchs (preview of upcoming Naxos release ), Galina Grigorjeva, Amanda Harberg, Jennifer Higdon, Alan Hovhaness, Edie Hill, Vincent Ho, Gao Hong, Arvydas Malcys, Martha Mooke, Weronika Ratusińska. Steve Reich, Max Richter, Arnold Rosner, and Hilary Tannand more

Playlist - Fund Drive program will be not archived

#WPRB2018

Judith Bingham (1952- ), Tom Flaherty (1950- ), Douglas Knehans (1957- ), Robert Moran (1937- ), Arvo Pärt (1935- )
r, Elena Ruehr (1963- ), Anna Segal, Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959- ), Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Diane Jones, Robin De Raaff, David Kechley, Shirish Korde, Jimmy Lopez, Alice Ping Yee Ho, plus others

Playlist

Brenton Broadstock (1952- ), Graham Fitkin (1963- ), Vladimír Godár (1956- ), Johann Johannsson (1969-2018) and Clarice Jensen, Arnold Rosner, Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour, Francesc Valls (1671-1747), Aftab Darvishi, Kenneth Fuchs, Jaroslav Krček, Giovanni Sollima, Zhou Tian,
and much more

Guests: guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz and composer, Robert W. Butts.

Art: Still Life by English Artist: Margaret Erber

Playlist

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, from 5:00 till 11:00 - IN PRAISE OF WOMAN - PART 4 (Due to the weather, this program will was aired on April 04

Katy Abbott (1971-), Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968), Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (1938- ), Galina Grigorjeva (1962- ) Jennifer Higdon (1962- )
, Gao Hong (1964- ), Joanne Metcalf (1958- ), Beata Moon (1969- ), Victoria Poleva (1962- ), Alex Shapiro (1962- ), Diana Arismendi, Lera Auerbach, Zulema de la Cruz, Gaby Kapps, Tamar Muskal and more

Playlist

SPECIAL ONE TIME EDITION of TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

As part of WPRB's All Vinyl Week Classical Discoveries presents a program of early music for Holy Week

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1636-1704), Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), Marc-Antonio Ingegneri (1545-1592), Pierre de la Rue (c. 1460-1518)
Marcin Leopolita (?-1589), Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), and more.

Playlist

IN PRAISE OF WOMAN - PART 5 - HIP & FUNKY - YOUNG COMPOSERS (UNDER 40) EDITION

Anna Clyne (1980- ), Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska (1989- ), Sky Macklay (1988- ), Gity Razaz (1986- ), Justina Repečkaitė (1989- ), María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (1980- ), Cristina Spinei (1984- ), Kate Whitley (1989- ), Ming-Hsiu Yen (1980- ) and other works as time allows.

Waiting by Azerbaijani Artist Sabina Suleymanova at: AZgallery.org

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Thursday, March 22, 2018 from 5:00 till 9:00am

Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726), Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Reinhard Keiser (1874-1739), John Mason (1485?-1547?), Ludwig Senfl (1486-1543), Antoine Boësset, Giovanni Battista Fasolo, Johannes Lupi,
Michele Mascitti, and others

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