Classical Connection on CFCR 90.5 FM

23/07/2025

On our July 23 programme:

🇨🇦 Saskatoon Children's Choir with "Adiemus" from "Songs of Sanctuary" by Karl Jenkins (Phoebe Voights conducts, Michelle Alders on piano, Verna Berntson and Connie Snider on percussion)

🇨🇦 Recorded in 2012 Jan Lisiecki playing Rondo. Allegro assai, the third movement of Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466 by W. A. Mozart (Christian Zacharias conducts Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks)

🇨🇦 "Air Fort Lent Et Font Tendre" from "Orphée", an opera by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (soprano Danièle Forget with the Arion ensemble)

🇨🇦 Ofra Harnoy with the Prague Symphony Orchestra (Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor) performing Rondo, Op.94 in G minor by Antonin Dvořak

🇨🇦 🆕 Quartet No.3, "The (Im)possibility of a New Work for String Quartet" by Tím Brady (the Warhol Dervish String Quartet)

🇨🇦 "Ser Con El" by Norbert Palej sung and performed on marimba by Beverley Johnston

🇨🇦🇺🇦 From the 2004 "Melodies of the Moments" by Valentin Silvestrov - "Serenade" (Viktoria Grynenko on violin, Roger Admiral on piano)

🇨🇦 Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Dido of Hector Berlioz's "The Trojans":"Je Vais Mourir" (Fabien Gabel conducts Orchestre National de France)

🇨🇦 🆕 "Tumulte" from "Après L'Exode" by Patrick Roux (the CC Duo - Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan - and the Collectif 9 ensemble)

Hope you can tune in at 1:00 PM CST and enjoy this all Canadian music.

16/07/2025

Take a look at our July 16 playlist:

🇨🇦 Countertenor Daniel Taylor and soprano Suzie LeBlanc as Tamerlano and Seleuce of GF Handel's opera "Tamerlano" (Stephen Stubbs leads the Arion Ensemble)

* Slovenian pianist Alexander Gadjiev plays "With Drums and Pipes" and "Musettes" from "Out of Doors" suite by Belá Bartók

* "Sanctus" from "Missa Síne Nomine" by a Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay (René Clemencic conducts the Clemencic Consort)

* The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier plays George Gershwin's "Girl Crazy" overture

🇨🇦 "Embraceable You" is a song from the above mentioned musical. Hear it performed by Measha Brueggergosman-Lee

🇨🇦🆕 Just released world premiere recording of "His Gabbah is Turquoise" by Canadian composer Parisa Sabet. The single is from the upcoming new album featuring Montréal's double bassist Ali Kian Yazdanfar and pianist Brigitte Poulin

🇨🇦 Soprano Deantha Edmunds sings "Ring III" from her 2024 work "Angmalukisaa" (Mark Fewer conducts the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia)

🇨🇦 Warren Nicholson takes us to Spain with "Canzion y Danza" No.1 by Antonio Ruiz-Pipó

* "Bid the Virtues" by the 17th century Henry Purcell sung by French soprano Patricia Petibon with Ensemble Amarillis

* Orquesta Sinfonica Portugesa (Alvaro Cassuto, conductor) closes the program with "Keep Going" by Sergio Azevedo.

Tune in at 1:00 PM CST and enjoy this diverse musical experience.

08/07/2025

Our July 09 playlist:

* "Die Pilger Sind's... Beglückt Darf Nun Dich O Heimat, Ich Schauen" , the Wolfram song from Richard Wagner's"Tanhäuser" (baritone Hermann Prey with Orchestra and Chorus of the Bratislava Philharmonic. Kurt Wöss, conductor)

* "Moravian Dances" by Leoš Janáček (Libor Pešek conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra)

* "Prayer to the Land" from "Beyond the Silence of Sorrow" by Roberto Sierra to the text by Navarre Scott Momaday (soprano Martha Guth. Maximiano Valdés conducts the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra)

🇨🇦 Quebec pianist Marie-Andrée Ostiguy plays "Asturias (Leyenda)" from "Suite Española" by Isaac Albeniz

🇨🇦🆕 A premiere broadcast of "My Life" from "A Flower for My Daughter" by Sean Clarke (Roger Feria Jr., piano)

🇵🇱 Tenor Ryszard Minkiewicz sings two of four "Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin" by Karol Szymanowski to the text by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Karol Stryja conducts the Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice)

🇵🇱 From the live 2009 recording made in the monumental interior of the St.Mary's Basilica in Gdańsk, Poland - Bogusław Grabowski on organ and Maciej Sikała on saxophone improvise on the theme of "Hope"

🇨🇦 The 1984 recording of the Elmer Iseler Singers (conducted by Elmer himself) in a spiritual "Let Me Fly"

🇨🇦 Daniel Bolshoy closes the show with an excerpt from the 1933 "Sonata Parra Guitarra" by Antonio José

As always, tune in at 1:00 PM CST.
Enjoy!

01/07/2025

Here is what we have on our July 02 show:

🇨🇦 "Non Fu Gia Forte Alcida" from the first act of G. F. Handel's opera "Orlando" (countertenor Owen Willets with Vancouver's Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann, music director)

* "V2 Schneider" , a 1977 song by David Bowie, included in the 1996 Symphony No.4 "Heroes" by Philip Glass (Sinfonieotchester Basel, Markus Poschner, principal conductor)

* "No Sap Chantar Qui So Non Di" by Jaufre Rudel, the prince of Blayne, a troubadour of the 12th century (baritone Paul Hillier)

🇨🇦 Allegro from Concerto in D major by the 18th century Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa (Liona Boyd)

* Three Miniatures by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925-1991) arranged and performed by the his daughter, Lisa Batiashvili (with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra)

🇨🇦 "Dear Lord, the Father of Mankind" from "Stacey" - song cycle for voice and piano by John Beckwith (soprano Monica Whicher with Stephen Ralls on piano)

* Allegro non troppo from Beethoven's Symphony No.9, "Choral" (Slovak operatic soprano Lucia Popp with the Royal Concetrgebauw Orchestra)

* The Main Theme from "A Fistful of Dynamite", the 1971 western movie, composed by Ennio Morricone (Czech National Symphony Orchestra)

🇨🇦 George Gershwin's famous "Summertime" from his opera "Porgy and Bess" (soprano Marie-Josée Lord)

🇨🇦 "Menevse" by Matt Haimovitz (Matt on cello, Kiya Tabassian conducts the Constantinople ensemble)

Hope you can tune in at 1:00 PM CST and take in the whole hour of music.

01/07/2025

Happy Canada Day everyone!

24/06/2025

On the June 25 program:

🇨🇦 Isabel Bayrakdarian with Joaquin Valdepeñas on clarinet, David Hetherington, Winona Zelenka, Roberta Janzen and Amy Laing on cellos, present "Oror", a lullaby by Armenian composer Parsegh Ganatchian

🇨🇦 "Murmurations" for Piano and Tape, a 2016 work by Canadian composer Keiko Devaux (David Potvin)

* The Medieval Babes with "Love Me Broughte" (music: Katharine Blake, text from the 1373 "Commonplace Book of John Grimstone")

🇨🇦 Canadian Chamber Ensemble and Thomas Kay on clarinet (Raffi Armenian, conductor) in an excerpt of Prelude to "The Afternoon of the Faun" by Claude Debussy

🇨🇦 "En Route" by Canadian composer Hsiu - Ping Patrick Wu (Gillian Smith, violin)

🇨🇦 Heroic tenor Jon Vickers in the role of Radamès ("Celeste Aida") from Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" (Sir George Solti conducts Orchestra Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma)

* Anushka Hemangini Shankar with the Metropole Orkest (Jules Buckley, conductor) presents her own composition "Chasing Shadows"

* Kathleen Battle sings "Mein Gläubiges Herze" from Je. S. Bach's Cantata "Also Hat Gott Die Welt Geliebt", BWV 68. Robert Sadin conducts

* An excerpt from "Waltz" from the movie "The L***r" by Wojciech Kilar (Konrad Bryzek conducts the Grand Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio

Tune in at 1:00 PM CST. Enjoy!

18/06/2025

On the June 18 show:

🇺🇦 "Agnus Dei" from the 2022 "Requiem for Mariupol" by Illia Razumeiko (mezzo-soprano Lena Belkina with Violina Petrychenko on piano)

🇺🇦 Allegro Molto Risoluto from Symphony No.4 in B flat minor, Op.63 by Boris Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar)

🇨🇦 "Music is Vibration" by Andrew Balfour to the text by Dominic Gregorio (Luminous Voices conducted by Timothy Shantz)

* Danish rock band Ekseption (active 1967-1989) with their take on J. S. Bach's Toccata from Toccata and Fuge in D minor

🇨🇦 Canadian trumpet duo Adam Zinatelli and Aaron Hodgson play "Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky" from "Four Sculptures" by 🇺🇸 Eric Nathan

🇨🇦 "A Del Dia, A De La Fiesta" by the 18th century Peruvian composer José de Orejón y Aparicio (sopranos Hélène Brunet and Elaine Lachica with L'Harmonie des Saisons directed by Eric Milnes)

🇨🇦 "Land" from "Our Canada" (Music for Radio No.1) by John Weinzweig (Symphonova Orchestra under Shelly Katz)

* "Osellecto Selvaggio" by the 14th century composer Jacopo Di Bologna (Aaron Sheenan and Sumner Thompson)

🇮🇱 Itzhak Perlman with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Dov Seltzer, conductor) plays "At the Fireplace" by Mark Warshawsky

Tune in at 1:00 PM CST and enjoy the whole programme.

If you missed an episode, listen from the archives on our website.

11/06/2025

Our June 11 program:

* Allegro preciso, the opening movement of the 1951 Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra by Heitor Villa-Lobos (Turibio Santos with the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra)

* "Tant Que Vivray", a love song by the 16th century French composer Claudin de Semissy (soprano Catherine Bott with the Virelai Ensemble)

🇨🇦 Rondo, the third movement of Piano Quintet No.1 in G minor by W.A. Mozart (pianist Gloria Saarinen with the Prague Quartet)

🇨🇦 National Youth Choir of Canada with "Soon Ah Will Be Done" by Diane Loomer. James Frankhauser conducts

🇨🇦 Akemi Mercer-Niewöhner on violin and Rachel Mercer on cello in Finale: Moderato Con Forza - Allegro Martellato from "Four Duets for Violin and Cello" by Jean Coulthard

🇨🇦 Saskatoon harpist Chris Lindgren and guitarist Walter Hofmeister play Finale from "Suita Karuselle" by the 20th century Czech composer Milan Tesař

🇨🇦 Patrizia sings "Fury" (her opera rock version of "Der Hölle Rache" from Mozart's "The Magic Flute")

🇨🇦 Puirt A Baroque (David Greenberg on violin, Scott MacMillan on guitar and David Sandal on harpsichord) plays Henry Purcell's "Hornpipe" (from "Ayres for the Theatre") with a Cape Breton "chaser"

🇵🇱 The finale from "Verses of Hope" by Polish composer Czesław Grabowski (the National Academic Choir of Ukraine and the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer)

🇺🇦 The first movement from the 1950 Symphony No.1 by Ukrainian composer Mykola Kolessa (the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra under Hobart Earle)

Hope you can tune in at 1:00 PM CST and find the whole hour enjoyable.

03/06/2025

Our Wednesday, June 04 playlist:

🇨🇦 Soprano Suzie LeBlanc and countertenor Daniel Taylor in a duet "Io T'abbraccio" from Georg Frederic Handel's opera "Rosalinda" (Stephen Stubbs conducts the Arion ensemble)

* "Herje Kati" from "Czarda" Op.32, No.4 by Jenó Hubay (aka Eugen Huber) performed by Ferenc Balogh on violin with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra under Mátyás Antal

* "La mañana de San Juan" by the 16th century Spanish composer Diego Pisador (Shirley Rumsey sings and plays a Renaissance guitar)

* "The Klingon Battle" from the first "Star Trek" movie released in 1979 (Robert Wise director, Jerry Goldsmith composer). Erich Kunzel conducts the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

🇨🇦 🆕Con fuoco, the second movement of Oboe Suite, Op. 17 by Czech composer Pavel Haas (Winnipeg's Madeline Hildebrand on piano, Caitlin Broms-Jacobs on oboe)

🇨🇦🆕 "The Drowning" from the 2025 "Il Teatro Rosso" by Steven Takasugi (Montréal's No Hay Banda)

🇨🇦🆕 From Sean Clarke's "A Flower for My Daughter", an album to be released June 20, 2025 on the Navona record label - "Franey Trail - a Chamber Opera" (soprano Talia Fuchs with Roger Feria Jr. On piano)

🇨🇦🆕 The third movement of "Partita for Winds" Op.61 by John Robertson (Anthony Armoré conducts members of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra)

Hope you can tune in at 1:00 PM CST and find the whole hour interesting.

28/05/2025

28/05/2025

On Wednesday, May 28, tune in at 1:00 PM CST to hear:

* Allegro energico from "Norwegian Suite" by Frederic Delius (the BBC Concert Orchestra under Ashley Lawrence)

* "Spiel Ich Die Unschuld Von Lande" from "Die Fledermaus", an operetta by Johann Strauss (soprano Renate Holm with Wiener Symphoniker conducted by W***y Boskovsky)

* The Endellion Quartet playing Minuetto: Allegretto, the third movement of String Quartet. In A minor, D804, "Rosamunde" by Franz Schubert

* London's Libera boys' choir sings "Going Home" ( music from Antonin Dvořak's Symphony No.9 "From the New World", text by William Arms Fisher). Robert Prizeman conducts

🇨🇦🎤🇨🇦🎤🇨🇦🎤

Maestra Judith Yan talks about "Metamorphosis" - an immersive music and visual arts experience brought to St. John's Cathedral by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and Monique Martin this Saturday, May 31st.
Check saskatoonsymphony.org for all the details.

🇨🇦 🇺🇦Saskatoon pianist Sofia Mycyk playing "Spring Song" by Ukrainian composer Ihor Shamo

🇺🇦 "On Earth There is Fortune" from "Four Songs" composed in 2014 by Valentin Silvestrov to the poem by Taras Shevchenko (Mykola Hobdych conducts the Kyiv Chamber Choir)

🇨🇦 Canadian Proteus Saxophone Quartet introducing "Fireworks IV. Rhythmical" by French composer Karol Beffa

* an excerpt from "Spaceship" from the fourth act of Philip Glass's 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach" (the Philip Glass Ensemble)

Hope you will be able to enjoy the whole hour.
See you at one (or you can listen later from our archive available through the website).

20/05/2025

Coming up on Wednesday, May 21 at 1:00 PM CST:

🇨🇦 "Romance Africaine" from the 1798 "Pièces de Clavecin" by Georg Joseph Vogler (Anders Muskens on fortepiano)

🇨🇦 "Anaphora" by Christos Hatzis to the poem by Elizabeth Bishop (Suzie LeBlanc with the Elizabeth Bishop Players conducted by Dinuk Wijeratne)

* "Dora's Dance" by David Chesky (Chelsea Symphony under Yaniv Segal)

* Narciso Yepes plays "Torre Bermeja" from "Piezas Caraceristicas" by Isaac Albeniz

🇨🇦 "What is Our Life" by Owen Underhill (countertenor Daniel Cabena, Quatour Bozzini and Jeremy Berkman on tenor sackbut)

🇨🇦 Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" played on harp by Kristan Toczko

* Coro "Liebster Gott, Wenn Wir Ich Sterben" from Cantata BWV 8 by Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale conducted by Philippe Herreweghe)

Hope you can enjoy this hour of very diverse musical selections.