Music By Request

Thank you to listeners from Buckley, Ann Arbor, Suttons Bay, Honor, Watervale and St. Ignace.  Today's program featured Symphony No.1  for Sitar and Orchestra by Ravi Shankar. 

Thank you to listeners from Petoskey, Cheboygan, Buckley, Ann Arbor, Utica and Wolverine for helping to curate today's program.  The last Music by Request playlist  for the decade of 2010-2019 included music of J.S. Bach, Steve Reich and traditional carols and spirituals.  

The program featured traditional music of the season.  Thank you to listeners from Alden, Buckley, Cheboygan, Ann Arbor, West Bloomfield, Onekama and Baltimore for curating today's playlist. 

Thank you to listeners  from  Petoskey, Honor, Cheyboygan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Jocotepec Jallisco, Mexico for helping us to curate today's program.  

Thank to listeners from  Alden, Buckley, Freemont, West Bloomfield, Oklahoma City, Pierport and Traverse City for helping to curate today's playlist.  

1. Giovanni Gabrielli, Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury with His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, Jeremy West
2. John Williams and Leslie Bricusse, Somewhere in my memory from the Original Motion Picture soundtrack, Home Alone, Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams
3. George Frederick Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Academy of St.

1. Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in F Minor, Pacific Quartet with Menahem Pressler
2. Phillip Glass, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi
3. John Adams, The Chairman Dances, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman
4. Clara Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Holly Mathieson
5. Richard Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries, Buffalo Philharmonic, Joann Falletta
6. Edward Grieg, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitr

1. Maurice Ravel, Bolero, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
2. Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations, Gwendolyn Toth
3. American Shaker Song/John Rutter, Lord of the Dance, Cambridge Singers
4. Robert Schumann, Piano Sonata in B Flat, Vladimir Horowitz
5. Louis Vierne, Finale from Symphony No. 1 Op. 14, Michael Murray
6. Phillip Glass, Company, London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
7. Giuseppi Verdi, Vieni! t’afreeta!

1.  Phillip Glass, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Doynanyi
2. Johann Sebastian Bach, French Suite No.

1. W.A. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24, Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
2. The Doors/Arr. Jaz Coleman, Doors Concerto, Nigel Kennedy, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Peter Scholes
3. Conni Ellisor, Blackberry Winter, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Paul Gambill
4. Nigel Hess, Lochnager Suite, Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Nigel Hess
5. Rogers and Hammerstein, O what a beautiful morning from Oklahoma, Samuel Ramey, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Matz
6. Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.

This week's playlist featured music of Margaret Bonds, Louise Shropshire and Florence Price. 

1. Philip Glass, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Robert McDuffie, Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach
2. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Songs of Travel, Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau
3. Rogers and Hammerstein, excerpts from South Pacific, Renee Fleming, BBC Orchestra, Rob Fisher
4. John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby, Manuel Barrueco, London Symphony Orchestra, Jeremy Lubboch
5. Traditional American Shaker Song/Arr. John Rutter, Lord of the Dance, Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
6. Giuseppi Verdi, Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo!

1. Johann Sebastian Bach, French Suite in D minor, Vladimir Ashkenazy
2. Jerome Kern, Old Man River from Showboat, Paul Robeson
3. Henry Purcell, When I am Laid in Earth from Dido and Aeneas, Jessye Norman, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitnick
4. George Frederick Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon, Academy of St.

Today's playlist featured music of Aaron Copland, Sir Paul McCartney, Third Coast Percussion, Jennifer Higdon and Hannah Lash. Thank to listeners from Cheboygan, Ann Arbor, Frankfort, Pierport, Gould City, Buckley and Alden. 

Thank you to listeners from Hersey, Whitmore Lake, Kaleva, East Jordan, Frankfort  and Traverse City.  

1. John Lunn, Theme from Downton Abbey, Angele Debeau and La Pieta
2. W.A. Mozart, Piano Sonata in G Major, Ivo Pogorelich
3. Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 9, Vienna Philarmonic, Sir George Solti
4. Hector Berlioz, Hungarian March from the Damnation of Faust, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
5. L.V. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abaddo
6. J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, E. Power Biggs
7. Giacomo Puccini, Che Gelida Manina from La Boheme, Mario Lanza
8. L.V. Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.

1. Henryk Gorecki, Symphony No. 3, Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
2. J.S. Bach/arr. Romm, Little Fugue in G Minor, Canadian Brass
3. Steve Reich, Pulses, Steve Reich and Musicians
4. Lowell Mason, Nearer my God to Thee, Bryn Terfel, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
5. Antonin Dvorak, Symphony No.

1. Claude Debussy, Jardins sous la pluie, Jean Yves Theibaudet
2. Karl Jenkins, Benedictus, 2 Cellos
3. John Williams, The Papers from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Post, Sony Pictures Studio Orchestra
4. Enrique Granados, Laments, or the Maiden and the Nightengale, Findlay Cockrell
5. Martin Luther, A Mighty Fortress is our God, American Boy Choir, James Litton
6. George Gershwin/Arr. Raimundo Penaforte,  Prelude No. 2, Eroica Trio
7. W.A. Mozart, Ach, ich fuhl’s, from the Magic Flute, Cheryl Studer, Academy of St.

Thank you listeners from Beulah, Torch Lake, Crystal Lake,  Frankfort, Cedar, Honor, Troy, Scottville and Glen Arbor.  Today's playlist featured works by Chopin, Handel, Ravel, Arvo Part, and Sir Paul McCartney.

Music by Request for August 17 2019

Thank you to listeners from El Paso, TX,  Frankfort, Alden, Cedar, Old Mission, Oklahoma City, OK,  Petoskey and Traverse City for curating today's playlist.  Our program featured music of Johannes Brahms, Max Richter, Arvo Part, Malcolm Williamson, John Williams and Ola Gjeilo.

Thank you to listeners from Traverse City, Cadillac, Ann Arbor, Oklahoma City,  and Alden. This week's playlist featured music of Rogers and Hammerstein, Antonin Dvorak,  Julie Giroux, Peter Tchaikovksy and Marcel Tyberg. 

1.     J.S. Bach, Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Violin, Midori

2.     John Williams, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

3.     Charles Gounod, Ah! Je veux vivre from Romeo and Juliet, Pretty Yende, Sinfonia Orchestra of Milano, Giacomo Sagripanti

1. Leonard Bernstein/Alan Jay Lerner, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, London Sinfonietta, John McGlinn
2. Giacomo Puccini, Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore from Tosca, Anna Netrebko, National Academy Orchestra of St. Cecilia, Antonia Pappano
3. W.A. Mozart, Sonata in B Flat K. 281, Mitsuko Uchida
4. Nadia Boulanger, Three Works for Cello and Piano, Amit Pelid and Lucy Mauro
5. Peter Tchaikovsky, Finale from Symphony No.

Today's playlist featured American composers including William Bolcom, Charles Ives, John Adams, John Phillips Sousa, George Gershwin, Robert Crawford,  and John Williams.