Cedille Chicago Presents

This week’s show is devoted to music by Benjamin Britten, on the week of his 101st birthday anniversary.

This week’s show presents Cedille’s final release for 2014, featuring orchestral Overtures (really suites) by English Baroque composer Maurice Greene (1696–1755) (full playlist below).

For the week of Election Day, a program of music about 3 important American political figures who never ran for office.

This week's program features spooky, sinister, and satanic selections for Halloween.

This week's program features works by 20th-century Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Mieczyslaw Weinberg, in honor of Polish-American Heritage Month.

This week we sample Cedille’s two new releases for October: albums featuring the Lincoln Trio and New Budapest Orpheum Society.

This week we present an all-mazurkas program as part of our Polish American Heritage Month celebration. The mazurka is a dance form that originated in Poland, although most of the pieces on this week’s show come from Mexico.

This week’s program is devoted to Chopin and features performances by pianist Dmitry Paperno.

This week's program features piano concertos by John La Montaine and Carlos Chávez, with performances by Ramon Salvatore and Jorge Federico Osorio, respectively.

This week's program features wind concertos, with solo flutists Anita Miller-Rieder, Mary Stolper, and Mathieu Dufour, and oboist Alex Klein.

This week's program features concertos for cello and string quartet, with soloists Katinka Kleijn and Wendy Warner, cellists, and the Harlem Quartet. Playlist: DAVID BAKER (b. 1931) Cello Concerto (1975) III. Fast (6:09) From African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. III Cedille Records CDR 90000 066 (Track 4) Katinka Kleijn, cello Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, conductor BENJAMIN LEES Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (20:49) I. Allegro con brio II. Andante cantando III. Allegro energico From Delights & Dances Cedille Records CDR 90000 141 (Tracks 2–4) Harlem Quartet Chicago Sinfonietta Mei-Ann Chen, conductor JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK (1737–1781) Cello Concerto in C major (20:40) I. Allegro moderato II. Grave III. Tempo di minuetto From Haydn & Mysliveček Cello Concertos Cedille Records CDR 90000 142 (Tracks 4–6) Wendy Warner Camerata Chicago Drostan Hall, Conductor LEONARD BERNSTEIN ARR. RANDAL CRAIG FLEISCHER West Side Story Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra Tonight (3:17) From Delight

This week's program features violin concertos, with performances by Jennifer Koh and Rachel Barton Pine.

This week's program features works by Chicago composer Easley Blackwood (b. 1933), with the composer at the keyboard for most of them.

This week's program features music by Chicago composer William Ferris (1937–2000) and performances by the ensemble that bears his name, the William Ferris Chorale.

Two new releases for August are this week's feature. This hour includes selections from Fifth House ensemble’s Excelsoir, and soprano Patrice Michaels and friends’ INTERSECTION: Jazz Meets Classical Song.

This week’s program features music by Chicago composer Leo Sowerby (1895-1968), in observance of Chicago month on WFMT.

In anticipation of Chicago month on WFMT (August), this week’s program features the 3 Cedille albums that have “Chicago” in their titles.

This week, the 2nd of 2 all-Franch programs in commemoration of the French national Bastille Day holiday features French music from Berlioz to Messiaen.

This week, the first of 2 all-French programs in commemoration of the French national Bastille Day holiday features music from that country’s baroque and classical periods (17th and 18th centuries).

This week's show features music of American composer David Diamond, whose 99th birthday anniversary falls on our July 9 air date.