Retro Recordings

Saturday @ Noon

Listen to Discover Classical on Saturdays at noon for Retro Recordings as Aaron Mood presents historic performances of your favorite music. You'll hear definitive recordings from the last century, such as Leopold Stokowski leading the NBC Symphony, Renata Tebaldi singing Puccini and Mascagni conducting Mascagni.

3/14

William Kapell was described by the Washington Post as "America's first great pianist." Active in the 1940s and early 50s, his promising career was tragically cut short when he died in a plane crash in 1953. We'll hear Kappell performing music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

3/21

Retro Recordings will not air this week so that we can bring you a live performance of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the special start time of 12:00pm.

 

3/28

Englishman Dennis Brain was a third-generation horn player who served as a musician in the Royal Air Force and became the principal horn of the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. This week we'll hear him perform a concerto for horn by Mozart with the Philharmonia Orchestra.