Sunday 12/15/2024
Marmalade on a Starfish: Light Psych w/ Strings 
Enjoy some tea with Owsley buttons as WTJU's resident Psych Doctors -- Sister Pirate Jenny, the Zostress and Wowsville Don -- conclude the Classical Marathon with a kaleidoscopic mind bouquet… MoreEnjoy some tea with Owsley buttons as WTJU's resident Psych Doctors -- Sister Pirate Jenny, the Zostress and Wowsville Don -- conclude the Classical Marathon with a kaleidoscopic mind bouquet of beautiful "pop-sike" wonder. Thrill gently to the strains and strings of the Left Banke, Dave Berry, the Troggs, the Poppy Family, the early Bee Gees, and other deliciously twee practitioners of altered mellow mood swings. Warning: You may hear rainbows. Less
Hosted by Sister Pirate Jenny Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 10:00 pm- "Growing in My Mind" - Pretty Things - Emotions [Fontana: 1967]
- "There's Gonna Be a Storm" - The Left Banke - The Left Banke Too [Mercury: 1968]
- "The North Wind Blew South" - Philamore Lincoln - TNWBS [Epic: 1970]
- "Someday Girl" - The Moon - Without Earth [Imperial: 1968]
- "The Swallow Song" - Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day [Phillips: 1970]
- "If I knew You Were the One" - Richard Twice - Richard Twice [Phillips: 1970]
- "Imagination" - Cherry People - Cherry People [Heritage: 1968]
- "Free From the City" - The Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? [London: 1969]
- "I Started a Joke" - The Bee Gees - Idea [Warner: 1968]
- "Reflections of My Life" - Marmalade - Reflections of My Life [Union Square: 1969 / 2011]
- "Cucurrucu Paloma" - Caetano Veloso - [Nonesuch ]
- "Kill My World" - Autumn - Autumn Comes Autumn [Warner: 1971]
- "Classical Ombudsmen Opine" - Percy & Dicky -
- "Inside Looking Out" - Buckinghams - Portrait [Columbia: 1967]
- "Red Telephone" - Love - Forever Changes [Elektra: 1968]
- "Cousin Jane" - The Troggs - Best of the Troggs [Fontana: 1968]
- "Ode to a Tin Angel" - Hearts and Flowers - Of Horses - Kids - And Forgotten Women [Capitol: 1968]
- "Minotaur" - Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin [Castleface: 2013]
- "Another Nail" - Fuchsia - Fuchsia [Pegasus: 1971]
- "Diana" - Comus - First Utterance [Dawn: 1971]
- "Laura's Garden" - Orange Bicycle - Orange Bicycle [Parlophone: 1970]
- "Hampstead Incident" - Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Stereo Special Edition) [EMI: 1966]
- "Michaelangelo" - 23rd Turnoff - The Dream of Michaelangelo [ 1967]
- "Lord of The Manor" - The Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Bros. 1960 To 1969 [Warner Brothers: 1968]
- "Butterfly" - The Hollies - Butterfly [Parlaphone: 1967]
- "Ogden's Nut Gonna Flake" - The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gonna Flake [ /2018]
- "Echoes" - Gene Clark - Collector's Series: Early L.A. Sessions [Columbia: 1967/72]
- "Dead Queen" - Espers - II [Drag City: 2006]
- "Toyland" - The Alan Bown Set - Outward Bown [Grapefruit: 2013]
- "Stranded In Time" - United States of America - S/t [ 1969]
- "Gold is the Color of Thoughts" - The Smoke - The Smoke [Sidewalk: 1967]
- "Expecting to Fly" - Buffalo Springfield - Again [Atco: 1967]
- "Pastoral" - The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond [Columbia: 1975]
- "Come Ride, Come Ride" - Emmit Rhodes/The Merry Go Round - Best of [A&M: 1967]
- "Magic Hollow" - The Beau Brummels - Triangle [WB: 1967]
- "Stargazer" - Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer [Sanctuary: 1971]
- "Way to Blue" - Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left [Island: 1969]
- "Another Time" - Saggitarius - Present Tense [B&C / Sanctuary: 1968]
- "Lullaby 2" - Rosebud - Rosebud [Reprise: 1971]
- "Leaves Never Break" - Jake Holmes - A Letter to Katherine December [S/t: 2016]
Handel's Messiah
The yearly tradition returns! Join members of WTJU's Classical Department for the penultimate program of the marathon: a broadcast of the complete Messiah.
Hosted by Andrew Morgan Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 7:00 pm- "Messiah, HWV 56" {George Frideric HANDEL} - Auger (sop.), von Otter (contralto), Chance (alto), Crook (tenor), Tomlinson (bass), The Choir of the English Concert, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (dir.) - Messiah, HWV 56 [Archiv ]
Sunday Opera Matinee: Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur is an example of a style loosely referred to as verismo or “realism.” It began as an Italian literary movement initiated by a number of Sicilian writers, most… MoreAdriana Lecouvreur is an example of a style loosely referred to as verismo or “realism.” It began as an Italian literary movement initiated by a number of Sicilian writers, most notably Giovanni Verga, that spawned several popular operas, including our Adriana Lecouvreur. These works are set in a working class milieu, feature some low-life characters, and present extreme stylistic contrasts–from passionate tension to sentimental languor, delicacy to violence. We’ll conclude our afternoon of powerhouse Italian singing with selections by one of the 20th Century’s greatest singers, Jessye Norman, who heralds the curtain rising on our Sunday Opera Matinee. Less
Hosted by Tim Snider Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 3:00 pm- "Adriana Lecouvreur" {Francesco CILEA} - Tebaldi, del Monaco, Capuana, Accademia di Santa Cecilia - Adriana Lecouvreur [London: 1962/1991]
Wim Mertens
Since 1980, Mertens has composed pieces in different formats, from short, accessible songs or Lieder to magnanimous and complex three- and four-part cycles, and for different settings: from solo piano… MoreSince 1980, Mertens has composed pieces in different formats, from short, accessible songs or Lieder to magnanimous and complex three- and four-part cycles, and for different settings: from solo piano to chamber music ensembles and symphony orchestra. He often writes for unusual instrumentations: twelve piccolos, ten bass trombones, thirteen clarinets. Since his recording debut in 1980, titled For Amusement Only, an electronic composition for pinball machines, Wim Mertens has released more than 65 albums. Less
Hosted by Steven Harris Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 1:00 pm- "Watch Over Me" - Wim Mertens - Shot and Echo: A Sense of Place [Usura: 1992]
- "A Visiting Card" - Wim Mertens - Educes Me [Usura: 1987]
- "Phaedra - Solo piano and voice" - Wim Mertens - Heroides [Usura: 2022]
- "Hedgehog's Skin" - Wim Mertens - What You See Is What You Hear [Usura: 2006]
- "Polytics" - Wim Mertens - Ranges of Robustness [Usura: 2024]
- "Post and Postures" - Wim Mertens - Charaktersketch [Usura: 2015]
- "4 Mains" - Wim Mertens - Cave Musicam [Usura: 2003]
- "The Fosse" - Wim Mertens - What You See Is What You Hear [Usura: 2006]
- "Struggle for Pleasure" - Wim Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure [Usura: 1983]
- "The Tonality" - Wim Mertens - Nature's Largess [Usura: 2017]
- "Wandering Eyes" - Wim Mertens - What You See Is What You Hear [Usura: 2006]
- "Close Cover" - Wim Mertens - Partes Extra Partes [Usura: 2006]
- "The Scene" - Wim Mertens - Music and Film [Usura: 2009]
- "Victims over Victors" - Wim Mertens - The Gaze of the West [Usura: 2020]
- "No Testament" - Wim Mertens - Motives for Writing [Usura: 1989]
- "Not at Home" - Wim Mertens - What You See Is What You Hear [Usura: 2006]
- "Often a Bird" - Wim Mertens - Jardin Clos [Usura: 1996]
- "Olk Katarakt" - Wim Mertens - Nature's Largesse [Usura: 2017]
Short Symphonies
Journey with Ken to the heyday of the early Classical period and enjoy a selection of enticingly short and tuneful symphonies and other works.
Hosted by Ken Nail Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 11:00 am- "Symphony in D Major, F. 29" {Josef MYSLIVECEK} - London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert - Myslivecek: Symphonies [Chandos ]
- "Symphony No. 8 in C minor" {William HERSCHEL} - London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert - Herschel: Symphonies [Chandos ]
- "Symphony in A Major, Opus 1, No. 3" {Franz Ignez BECK} - New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Donald Armstrong - Beck: 6 Symphonies [Naxos ]
- "Symphony in C Major, Op. 3, No. 2" {Johann Christian BACH} - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marinner - J.C. Bach: Symphonies [Decca ]
- "Symphony No. 1 in Bb Major "New Year Ode"" {William BOYCE} - Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon - Boyce: Symphonies Nos 1-8, Op. 2 [Naxos ]
- "Sinfonia in D Major "La Veneziana"" {Antonio SALIERI} - Chopin Chamber Orchestra, Winston Dan Vogel - Salieri: La Veneziana, etc. [Dynamic ]
- "Symphony No. 2 in F Major" {Thomas ARNE} - Cantilena, Adrian Shepard - Arne: Symphonies Nos 1-4 [Chandos ]
- "Symphony in G Major, Op. 11, No. 1" {Joseph BOLOGNE, Chevalier de St. George} - Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon - The Music of Joseph Bologne [Tafelmusik ]
Top 10 Hardest Piano Pieces
Join Matt Fritts for a countdown of the top ten piano pieces that make amateur pianists (like your host) run and hide! From Liszt to Ravel to lesser-known composers, we'll… MoreJoin Matt Fritts for a countdown of the top ten piano pieces that make amateur pianists (like your host) run and hide! From Liszt to Ravel to lesser-known composers, we'll explore the most nefarious corners of the piano repertoire. And we'll celebrate the incredible pianists who answer the call of duty to perform them. Less
Hosted by Matthew Fritts Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 9:00 am-
"Etude, Op. 39 no. 10: Allegretto alla barbaresca, from Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs"
{Charles-Valentin ALKAN}
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Paul Wee -
Alkan: symphony for solo piano / concerto for solo piano [BIS ]
Notes: Etudes Nos. 8-10 from this set of 12 comprise Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano, which at nearly an hour long is rarely played live because of its unparalleled demands for technical ability and physical stamina. -
"Scarbo, from Gaspard de la nuit"
{Maurice RAVEL}
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Martha Argerich -
Steinway Legends [Deutsche Grammophon ]
Notes: The name "Gaspard" in Persian means "the man in charge of the royal treasures." The third movement ("Scarbo") depicts the nighttime mischief of a small fiend or goblin, making pirouettes, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. This movement's technical challenges include repeated notes in both hands and double-note scales in major seconds. -
"Piano Sonata No. 5 in F Sharp Major, Op. 53, "Poem of Ecstacy""
{Alexander SCRIABIN}
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Vladimir Ashkenazy -
Steinway Legends [Deutsche Grammophon ]
Notes: Sviatoslav Richter described it as the most difficult piece in the entire piano repertory. The polyrhytyhms are very difficult to execute. -
"Etude No. 13, Book 2: "The Devil's Staircase""
{Gyorgy LIGETI}
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Dora Deliyska -
Ètudes and Préludes [Hänssler Classic ]
Notes: Part of the cycle of 18 etudes for solo piano that Ligeti wrote between 1985 and 2001. The piece moves polymetrically up and down the keyboard, and the dynamics stretch from exceptionally quiet to *8* fortes! -
"Studies for Player Piano, Vol. 1: Study No. 11"
{Conlon NANCARROW}
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Joanna MacGregor -
Play [Warner Classics ]
Notes: Nancarrow designed these studies to be played by a mechanical instrument, not a real human. But that hasn't stopped some pianists from trying! - "Etude de concert, Op. 1: No. 2 in A-Flat Major" {Paul de SCHLOZER} - Jorge Bolet - Jorge Bolet at Carnegie Hall [Sony Classical ]
- "Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S141/R3b: No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor, La campanella" {Franz LISZT} - Yundi Li - Yundi Li: Liszt [Deutsche Grammophon ]
- "Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 6" {Samuil FEINBERG} - Marc-André Hamelin - Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-6 [Hyperion ]
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"Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4"
{Frederic CHOPIN}
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Bruce Liu -
Bruce Liu [Deutsche Grammophon ]
Notes: The pianist was the Winner of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2021 - "Etude No. 5 in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, "Black Keys"" {Frederic CHOPIN} - Bruce Liu - Bruce Liu [Deutsche Grammophon ]
- "Etude No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"" {Frederic CHOPIN} - Bruce Liu - Bruce Liu [Deutsche Grammophon ]
- "Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)" {Mily BALAKIREV} - Natasha Paremski - Natasha [Steinway and Sons ]
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"La Semaine Grasse, from Movements from Petrushka"
{Igor STRAVINSKY}
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Louis Lortie -
3 Movements from Petrushka / RAVEL: La Valse / GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue [Chandos ]
Notes: All three movements include multiple glissandi, tremolos and rapid jumps spanning over two octaves - "Sonata in D Minor, K. 141/L. 422" {Domenico SCARLATTI} - Martha Argerich - Piano Recital [Accord ]
- "Toccata in C Major, Op. 7" {Robert SCHUMANN} - Vladimir Horowitz - Kreisleriana/ Kinderszenen/ Toccata in C Major [Sony Classical ]
A Mostly Renaissance Christmas
The Early Music Christmas show returns this year bringing you Christmas music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods of Classical music. While many of the chants and dances we have… MoreThe Early Music Christmas show returns this year bringing you Christmas music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods of Classical music. While many of the chants and dances we have from the Middle Ages are attributed to that ubiquitous early music composer, “Anonymous”, we have a few Medieval hymns and chants attributed to a composer (Hildegarde von Bingen), or abbey (“Nuns of Chester”). The Renaissance period, by contrast, brings us many favorite Christmas melodies, hymns, anthems, motets, and masses. Featured composers will include Josquin (Ave Maria), Palestrina, Michael Praetorius (Es ist ein Ros’), Walter (Joseph, lieber), Mouton (nasciens mater), and many more. Less
Hosted by Sandy Snyder Sunday | 12/15/2024 | 7:00 am- "Plainchant : Ave Maria" {Josquin des Prez (c.1455-1521)} - Chanticleer - Magnificat [Warner Classics International: 2000]
- "Ave Generosa (Hail, nobly born, hail, honored and inviolate)" {Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)} - Westminster Williamson Voices; James Jordan - Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass [GIA ChoralWorks: 2019]
- "Hodie Christus natus est (Motet)" {Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)} - The Sixteen; Harry Christophers - Palestrina Volume 2 [CORO: 2012]
- "This day Christ was Born" {William Byrd (1543-1623)} - The Sixteen; Harry Christophers - A Renaissance Christmas [CORO: 2018]
- "Veni, veni Emmanuel" {Traditional} - The Sixteen; Harry Christophers - A Renaissance Christmas [CORO: 2018]
- "Noël nouvelet" {Anonymous 15th century French} - The King's Singers - Christmas [Signum Records: 2006]
- "Noël nouvelet" {Anonymous 15th century French} - Mediæval Bæbes - MydWynter [BELLISSIMA: 2022]
- "Nesciens Mater (Knowing no man, the Virgin mother bore)" {Jean Mouton (c.1459-1522)} - Voces8 - Christmas [Signum Records: 2011]
- "O Magnum Mysterium" {Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)} - The Sixteen; Harry Christophers - Christmas with the Sixteen [CORO: 2004]
- "Lullabie" {Anthony Holborne (1545-1602)} - Fretwork - An Elizabethan Christmas [Signum Records: 2021]
- "Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (Joseph, dearest Joseph mine)" {Johann Walter (1496-1570)} - Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen - A Renaissance Christmas [Nonesuch: 2005]
- "Joseph, lieber Joseph mein" {Johann Walter (1496-1570)} - Kammerchor der Frauenkirche, Matthias Grünert - Weihnachten in der Dresdner Frauenkirche [Sony Classical: 2013]
- "Catalan Folk Songs: El noi de la mare" {Traditional, 16th century Catalan; arr. Miguel Llobet Solés} - Eduardo Fernandez, guitar - Classical Christmas [UME - Global Clearing House: 2020]
- "El Noi de la Mare (What shall we give to the Mother's Child?)" {Traditional, 16th century Catalan} - Cor Madrigal - 25 Nadales (Catalan Christmas Carols) [La Ma de Guido: 2003]
- "A Virgen Santa Maria todos a loar devemos (To the Virgin Santa Maria we all praise)" {Traditional} - Trouvere Medieval Minstrels - Star of the Sea [recordJet: 2022]
- "Song of the Nuns of Chester "Qui creavit celum" (He who made the heavens)" {Anonymous from the Benedictine Nunnery of St. Mary at Chester} - Traditional, Andrew Parrott, Emily Van Evera, Taverner Choir - The Promise of Ages - A Christmas Collection [Sony Classical: 1998]
- "Song of the Nuns of Chester "Qui creavit celum" (He who made the heavens)" {Anonymous from the Benedictine Nunnery of St. Mary at Chester; arr. M. Bussey for organ and choir} - Chester Cathedral Choir, Benjamin Chewter, Philip Rushforth - Glory to the New-Born King [Priory Records: 2012]
- "Videntes stellam Magi (Seeing the star, the magi rejoiced)" {Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)} - The Sixteen; Harry Christophers - A Renaissance Christmas [CORO: 2018]
- "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How splendid shines the morning star)" {Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)} - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed - In dulci jubilo [SWR Classic: 2021]
- "Beata viscera (Blessed Flesh of the Virgin Mary)" {Pérotin (fl.c. 1200)} - Pro Cantione Antiqua, Ian Partridge - Medieval Christmas (Early Classical Music for the Holidays) [Menuetto Classics: 2018]
- "Ave Maria" {Josquin des Prez (c.1455-1521)} - Chanticleer - Psallite! A Renaissance Christmas [Chanticleer Records: 2011]
- "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)" {Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)} - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed - In dulci jubilo [SWR Classic: 2021]
- "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)" {Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); arr. Hugo Distler} - Choir of Keble College, Oxford; Matthew Martin - Ave Rex Angelorum: Carols and Music Tracing the Journey from Christ the King to Epiphany [CRD Records: 2020]
- "There is no Rose" {Anonymous 15th century English} - The King's Singers - Christmas [Signum Records: 2006]
- "There Is No Rose Of Swych Vertu" {Anonymous 15th century English} - Mediæval Bæbes - Mistletoe & Wine [Nettwerk Music Group: 2003]
