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Mozart Anniversary Broadcast on WWFM

Mozart, take me away!

I’m getting ready to hit the air waves with more Mozart – an assortment of symphonies, concertos, operas, orchestral, choral, vocal, chamber and instrumental music – in honor of the 264th anniversary of his birth.

Along the way, we’ll hear selections performed by violinist Jaap Schröder and hornist Barry Tuckwell, both recently deceased, and a recording of Christopher Hogwood playing a clavichord that once actually belonged to the composer.

If you enjoy the programming, please support it, with your contribution at 1-888-232-1212 or online at wwfm.org.

As an added incentive, this time around we’re offering, among our thank you gifts, a 2-CD set, “Quiet Time: The Music of Mozart,” available for your donation of $60.

At 7:30 tonight, I’ll be manning the board for a special broadcast of Westminster Choir’s Homecoming Concert, coming your way live from Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. David Osenberg will be your host for that. Then I’ll be back, following the concert, with more music until 10:00 EST.

Forget your cares with Wolfgang. Grab your shades and join the Wolf Pack, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org. Thank you for your support!

January 27, 2020
Classical Music on The Classical Network Today

For many, January 2 means back to work. But not for Carl Hemmingsen.

Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network, as I fill in for my hard-working, though still-vacationing, radio colleague.

First, I’ll be your host for today’s Noontime Concert, from Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City, a recital featuring violinist Chloé Kiffer and pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine. On the program will be “Fratres” by Arvo Pärt, the “Suite Italienne” by Igor Stravinsky (after “Pulcinella”), and violin sonatas by Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel.

Then, immediately following the concert broadcast, which should conclude before 1:30, I’ll have a musical remembrance of violinist Jaap Schröder, who died on Tuesday at the age of 94.

As we approach 2:00, you’ll be the indirect beneficiary of the largesse of my friends and family, as I share some of the bounty of this year’s Christmas haul. I’ll be reaching into my stocking for newly-acquired music by George Antheil, Ruth Gipps, Wilfred Josephs, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Karl Weigl.

New Year’s is over, but there’s still plenty of peppermint and wassail in our tanks, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

January 2, 2020
Jaap Schröder Dies Early Music Pioneer

With only hours remaining in 2019, the waning year lashed out to claim its last high-profile musical victim.

Violinist Jaap Schröder has joined his former colleagues, harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt (d. 2012 at 83), flutist and conductor Frans Brüggen (d. 2014 at 79), and cellist Anner Bylsma (d. July 25 at 85) in the Great Beyond. The four recorded together, in various permutations, as chamber musicians and as members of Concerto Amsterdam.

Concerto Amsterdam was established by Shröder in 1960, employing members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The ensemble started out playing on modern instruments, using historically-informed techniques, but gradually transitioned to period instruments.

Schröder was also director and concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music and served as visiting music director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 94.

Bylsma, Schröder, Leonhardt and Brüggen (pictured, left to right) perform Telemann’s “Paris” Quartet No. 4

January 2, 2020

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