P.D.Q. Bach has gone to hilarity heaven: Peter Schickele died earlier this week. America’s premier classical comedian, creator and alter-ego of the last and least of Bach’s sons, Schickele, under his own name, was a composer of seriously good-humored, often ingenious music. We’ll also revisit smiling highbrows from the past.
7-9 p.m. EST
2200-0000 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Poulenc: “Les biches” Suite
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra/Jean-Luc Tingaud
(Naxos)
Telemann: “Gulliver Suite”
Andrew Manze & Caroline Balding, violins
(Harmonia Mundi)
Haydn: Symphony No. 60 in C major (“Il distratto”)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam/Jan Willem de Vriend
(Etcetera)
Schickele: “New Horizons in Music Appreciation”
Peter Schickele & Robert Dennis, color commentators
New York Mills Philharmonic/Heilige Dankesang
(Vanguard)
Schickele: Piano Quintet No. 1
Peter Schickele, piano
Audubon Quartet
(Centaur)
Schickele: Bassoon Concerto
George Sakakeeny, bassoon
Oberlin Orchestra/Raphael Jiménez
(Oberlin Music)
Schickele: Quodlibet
chamber orchestra/Jorge Mester
(Vanguard)
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