TheClassicalStation

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@dgclassicsjapan Just captivating, I defy anyone to get to the part of this video where the flutes come in and not be transported by it.

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@BerlinPhil This is gorgeous! Was motivated to look into "The Spring Symphony" and everything in it conspires to make it worthy of the name. Composed in the Winter, performed late March, and inspired by the lines: "“O, turn, O turn and change your course/In the valley, Spring blooms forth!"

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@medicitv Iconic, what a gift it is to have art that is still "alive and kicking" after more than a century.

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Tomorrow on Classical Café, George Leef profiles his weekly Legendary Performer:
American pianist, William Kapell.

Listen here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0r4vW

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It’s a new week, All!
Let’s make it great with great classical music. https://t.co/Ro0tT0r4vW

7pmET: Drop the Needle = One-Year Anniversary Edition, featuring listener requests.

8pmET: Monday Night at the Symphony celebrates recordings of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

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This Wednesday at 11amET on Classical Café, we'll give away tickets to the @CarolinaBallet production of Snow White, bringing the classic fairytale to life with timeless themes. More information: https://t.co/EukCkSjdD7

Tune in to win! https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

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Start off the month at 8amET with James Steelmon and Great Sacred Music + Mozart’s gorgeous Missa brevis in F, K 192.
And at 6pmET, Preview! spotlights a very special release of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for two guitars.
Tune in here --> https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

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YES! WEEKEND!
Yummy classical music right here --> https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

Join Peggy Powell for Saturdays on Point at 1pmET & Minkus’s Don Quixote. At 6pmET, Haydn Jones has your Saturday Evening Request Program, always a lovely way to spend a Saturday evening!

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On This Day in Classical Music History:
A very Happy Birthday to legendary Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, born in Riga in 1947.
Read more about him here: https://t.co/Agp3B8H5Ua

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It's All-Request Friday, Listeners!
We're playing your special requests and dedications all day (and then again tomorrow evening on the Saturday Evening Request Program).
Want to make a request for next week?
Do that here: https://t.co/kUHht0Pa3l

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Tonight at 7pmET on Thursday Night Opera House:

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, featuring Sir John Barbirolli’s enduring 1966 EMI recording with the orchestra and chorus of the Opera di Roma.

Tune in, right here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

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On This Day in Classical Music History:

It’s the birthdate of the first international recording star, Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, born in Naples and the most celebrated and highest-paid operatic tenor of his contemporaries. Read more: https://t.co/Agp3B8HDJI

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On This Day in Classical Music History:

It’s the birthdate of Italian soprano, opera director, and voice teacher Renata Scotto in Savona in 1934.

Read more about her here: https://t.co/Agp3B8H5Ua

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Tomorrow on Classical Café, George Leef's Legendary Performer: Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

And on Wednesday at 11amET, George will give away tickets to the @mallarmemusic Series Concert: Surviving Inquisition with Forgotten Clefs.

Tune in here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0r4vW

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Drop the Needle at 7pmET: a recording of the world’s first million selling artist on the world’s first million selling record: Enrico Caruso singing Vesti la guibba.

Then at 8pmET, Monday Night at the Symphony features Les Arts Florissants.

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Sacred Sunday!
8amET: Great Sacred Music, including J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 127 and Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F, K. 192.
6pmET: Preview! and the best in new and recent classical releases. This week, nocturnes: pieces that evoke the nighttime. Tune in here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

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Ahoy, me mateys! Relax with your shipmates at 1pmET for a jaunty musical tale of pirates on Saturdays On Point: Le Corsaire, the 19th-century ballet with music by Adolphe Adam, inspired by Lord Byron’s 1814 swashbuckling poem. Tune in here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0rClu

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Today at 11amET on Classical Café, we'll give away tickets to see violinist Vadim Gluzman with the
@ncsymphony - More information about the concerts here: https://t.co/tX26N9LwFg

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Today on Classical Café, George Leef profiles his weekly Legendary Performer: Pianist Menahem Pressler.
Tune in here: https://t.co/Ro0tT0r4vW

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On this Day in Classical Music History:
The son of composer Eduard “Edi” Strauss, and nephew of “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II — Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III — was born on this day in Vienna in 1866. Read more about him: https://t.co/Jz1ftyX4e9