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.

10/24

Malcolm Arnold wrote the score for the 1952 British film The Sound Barrier, about World War II test pilots attempting to fly faster than the speed of sound. This week we'll hear the 1969 recording of the score by the Royal Philharmonic, with the composer conducting.

 

10/31

We'll celebrate Halloween with Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, a work that is remembered in pop culture as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. We'll hear a 1960 performance by the Detroit Symphony, conducted by Paul Paray.

 

11/7

Sviatoslav Richter enjoyed a lengthy career, performing some of the most demanding piano literature well into his 70s, and continuing to concertize until just a few years before his death in 1997. This week we'll hear a 1994 recording of Richter performing Carl Maria von Weber's third piano sonata.