Music By Request

Thank you to listeners from Ann Arbor, Elberta, Higgens Lake, Petoskey, Prudenville, Baltimore, Grand Rapids and Holland.  The music of Aaron Copland received the most requests from listeners today.  

1.     Aaron Copland, Red Pony Suite, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Joann Falletta

2.     Modest Moussorgsky, A Night on Bald Mountain, New York Philharmonic, Giuseppe Sinopoli

3.     Various Artists, Elephant Love Medley from the original motion picture soundtrack, Moulin Rouge, Ewan McGregor, Jaimie Allen, Nicole Kidmn

Classical IPR can be a constant for you in times of uncertainty.  We will continue to bring you the music you expect whenever you tune in.  Thank you to listeners from nearby and across the country, for helping to curate our program.  Featured on today's playlist was the Overture on Themes from the Wizard of Oz.  

Thank you to listeners from Kaleva, Buckley, Traverse City, Petoskey, Onekama, Honor, Omena and Suttons Bay.   

Happy Leap Year Everyone!  Thank you to a listener from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, who requested excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.  Halfway through the comic opera, Frederick the pirate makes the discovery that his contract as a pirate apprentice lasts not until his 21st year but his 21st birthday. And since he was born in a leap year, that birthday will not occur for another 80 years. 

1. Erik Satie, Trois Danses de Travers, Pascal Roge
2. Sir Edward Elgar, Land of Hope and Glory, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Andrew Davies
3. Peter Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture, Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
4. Jacab Gade, Jalouise (Tango Tzigane), Boston Pops Orchestra, Keith Lockhart
5. John Williams, The Presses Roll from the original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Post, Studio Orchestra, John Williams
6. Michael Korb/Uli Rover, arr.

1. Antonin Dvorak Prague Waltz, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer  

2. Karl Jenkins ,Palladio, Konstantin Soianov, Duncan Riddell, Robert St. John Wright Demot Crehand, The London PhilharmonicStrings, Karl Jenkins   

3. Ravi Shankar, Variant Moods, Joshua Bell

Thank you to listeners from Ann Arbor, Baltimore, Buckley, Suttons Bay, Traverse City, Rudyard and Pierport for helping to curate today's program. 

Today's program featured Wynton Marsalis' Fiddle Dance Suite which received the 2020 Grammy for  "Best Classical Instrumental Solo Performance",  featuring Nicola Benedetti with Cristian Macalaru and the Philadelphia Orchestra 

Featured on today's program was  Bruce Brubaker's piano transcription of Pat's Aria from John Adams' Nixon in China.

Today's playlist featured traditional gospel songs and spirituals.  

Featured on today's program were piano pieces taught and performed by long time Western Michigan University piano professor, Phyllis Rappaport, who passed away on January 10, 2020. 

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.