Highbrow humor for April Fools’ Day . . .
10 a.m.-noon EDT
1400-1600 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Richard Strauss: “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”
Staatskapelle Dresden/Rudolf Kempe
(Warner Classics)
Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33, No. 2 (“The Joke”)
Cuarteto Casals
(Harmonia Mundi)
Stravinsky: “The Soldier’s Tale” Suite
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Lucy Chapman Stoltzman, violin
Richard Goode, piano
(RCA)
Hindemith: “Overture to ‘The Flying Dutchman’ as Sight-read
by a Bad Spa Orchestra at 7 in the Morning by the Well”
Kocian Quartet
(Praga Digitals)
James Hewitt: “Medley Overture” in D minor-major
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois
(Naxos)
John Adams: “John’s Book of Alleged Dances”
Kronos Quartet
(Nonesuch)
Michael Daugherty: “Dead Elvis”
Charles Ullery, bassoon
London Sinfonietta/David Zinman
(Argo)
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