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#ClassicalSunrise Airing a selection from "Coventry Carols" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. This is No. 8, A Virgin Most Pure.
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December 25, 2024 at 12:29 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Luka Sorkočević was a Croatian composer active in the late 1700s. He met Gluck and Haydn in Vienna, and wrote a number of symphonies himself. Airing one now. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Good morning and happy new year! "Gamut" program no. 1,563 is on the air. Music today from Denmark, Croatia, Brazil, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Austria, and of course, #Ukraine. Let's go!
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January 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#ClassicalSunrise Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's 1855 opera "Jenny Bell" was inspired by Jenny Lind. Airing the overture.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing selections from 15th Century Spain. Music of the season from over 700 years ago!
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December 25, 2024 at 1:22 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing a short work by Heinrich Biber. In the late 1600s, Biber was renowned both as a composer and as a violin virtuoso.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing Niels Gade's Symphony No. 2. It premiered in 1844 with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, conducted by the composer. We're playing a different performance.
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November 27, 2024 at 11:10 AM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing theorbo music by Robert Visee. This early Baroque instrument looked sort of like a lute -- with a 6-foot long neck and 38 strings, that is. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Ruth Gipps worked tirelessly to promote upcoming composers -- especially female composers. She founded two orchestras devoted to new music and chaired the Composer's Guild of Great Britain. Airing one of her own works. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
ClassicalSunrise Today, Christmas is a one-day event. Not so in the 1700s. Christmastide lasted 12 days (just like the song). Airing music by Georg Philipp Telemann written for the third day of Christmas.
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December 25, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Albert Dietrich was a close friend of Johannes Brahms, and greatly influenced by him. An anonymous piano trio unearthed in the 1920s and attributed to Brahms later turned out to be by Dietrich. Airing one of his orchestral works. #ClassicalSunrise Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Grażyna Bacewicz is one of the great Polish composers of the 20th Century. Airing her Concerto for String Orchestra from 1948. #NoteworthyRelease
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February 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Good morning! "Gamut" program no. 1,565 is on the air. Music today from Britain, France, Poland, Italy Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia, and #Ukraine.
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January 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing a sonata by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf. He was a contemporary of Mozart and wrote (among other tings), over 60 piano sonatas.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing a short piano work by Dora Pejačević. Active in the early 20th Century, she's considered Croatia's first great composer.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Viennese composer Richard Stohr fled Nazi oppression in 1938 and rebuilt his career in the U.S. "Two Roads to Victory" was written during WWII.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Franz Danzi was a contemporary of Beethoven, and tutored Carl Marie von Weber. Airing one of his symphonies for the early 1800s.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Airing a chamber sonata by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. She was a harpsichord virtuoso, serving at the court of Louis XIV as a teenager.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#ClassicalSunrise York Bowen was only 24 when he completed his viola concerto. It was premiered in 1908 by Lionel Tertis, the leading violist of his day.
February 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#ClassicalSunrise Ignaz Pleyel studied with Franz Joseph Haydn and had a successful if varied career. He was a composer, music publisher, and piano builder. Airing one of his string quartets.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#ClassicalSunrise Good morning! "Gamut" program no. 1,567 is on the air. Music today from France, Germany, Britain, Poland, Croatia, the U.S., and Bohemia.
Listen now at wtju.net or charlottesvilleclassical.org
WTJU 91.1 FM - UVA's Community Radio Station
Rhythms, not algorithms. WTJU is the University of Virginia's community radio station.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#ClassicalSunrise #Ukraine composer Valentin Silvestrov composed "Hymn" in 2001. He describes it as "a noble song of praise," albeit one without words. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Violinist and composer Mauro D'Alay had a cushy job as music master to the Queen of Spain. But his biggest moneymakers were his concert tours in the early 1700s. Airing one of his works from that period. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#ClassicalSunrise Piano virtuoso Mortiz Moskowski was one of the popular performers at the turn of the 20th Century -- and his compositions were performed by many other artists. Airing one of his piano pieces. Listen at wtju.net and charlottesvilleclassical.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#ClassicalSunrise How could someone so talented be so completely forgotten? Georg Heinrich Backofen was a virtuoso clarinetist, composer, harpist, flutist, and painter! Airing his clarinet concertos from 1809.
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January 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM