Compact Discoveries 143: Moonlight
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:00
In this hour producer/host Fred Flaxman presents moonlight-inspired music by Glenn Miller, Beethoven, Debussy, Robin Milford, Charles Lucièn Lambert Sr., Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Hamilton Harty, and Charles Davidson, as well as a Russian folk song called Such a Moonlit Night.
Compact Discoveries 49: Opus 1
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
A program of first published compositions by Rachmaninov, Chopin, Grieg and others -- their Opus 1
Compact Discoveries 44: Name That Tune!
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
44 Name That Tune!
[no script available to prevent cheating!]
This is the first and, so far, only Compact Discoveries quiz, so get out your pen and paper and try to name the composer and composition for each of the ten delightful selections you will hear in this hour. Compact discs will be awarded to the winners
Compact Discoveries 37: The Birds and the Bees
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:47
Fred Flaxman's sexiest program yet. It includes The Birds by Respighi; The Wasps and The Lark Ascending by Vaughan-Williams; The Bees by Barrios, and two versions of The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Compact Discoveries 42: Sullivan Without Gilbert
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:01
Sir Arthur Sullivan is famous for his collaborations with W.S. Gilbert on a series of highly successful operettas. But he did write other music as well. Fred Flaxman presents Sullivan's Overture di Ballo, his Cello Concerto and excerpts from his ballet, L'Ile Enchantée.
Compact Discoveries 33: One-Hit American Composers
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:02
Big hits by Morton Gould, Edward MacDowell and Walter Piston.
Compact Discoveries 16: Hats Off to Coates
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
Fred Flaxman presents the delightful music of Eric Coates.
Compact Discoveries 103: Classical Disney
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:00
Favorite melodies from Disney films in the style of great classical composers.
Compact Discoveries 105: The Dream of America
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:00
Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" is featured, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.
Compact Discoveries 31: A Gershwin Tribute
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
Features a star-studded program broadcast on the eve of the first anniversary of Gershwin's death.
Compact Discoveries 7: The Cuban Gershwin
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
The melodious music of Ernesto Lecuona, known as "the Cuban Gershwin."
Compact Discoveries 94: Classic Happiness
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
Includes Al Fresco, Intermezzo by Victor Herbert; "For He's Going to Marry Yum-Yum" from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan; a movement from Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G and his Gypsy Rondo; Smiles and Chuckles and The Laughing Vamp by the Six Brown Brothers, and an excerpt from Schubert's Octet in F for Strings and Winds, Op. 166, D. 803.
Compact Discoveries 3: The Tune That Drove Composers Wild, Part 1
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:58
Niccolo Paganini's Caprice No. 24 and its variations by Liszt, Brahms, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov.
Compact Discoveries 4: The Tune That Drove Composers Wild, Part 2
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:56:58
More variations on Paganini's famous theme, including that of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Compact Discoveries 58: Richard Strauss, Home-Breaker
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
The music of R. Strauss for those who can't stand R. Strauss.
70 A Russian Winter
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:56:56
Russian classical music related to winter by Tchaikovsky, Galzunov and Prokofiev.
Orchestral Paris (Compact Discoveries Program 80)
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:00
The first in a series of programs devoted to music inspired by major cities.
67 Cecile Chaminade, Part 1
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:34
The beautiful, romantic music of an almost forgetten French woman composer.
Compact Discoveries 68: Cecile Chaminade, Part 2
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:00
More beautiful, romantic pieces by this French woman composer.
2 Discs for Dishwashing
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:57
Music which relates by a very far stretch of the imagination to that necessary daily task.
10 Faure's Fiascoes
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:58
The lovely music and musical love-life of French composer Gabriel Faure.
13 Leroy Anderson's Clever Musical Miniatures
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:56
Blue Tango, Jazz Pizzicato, Jazz Legato, The Syncopated Clock, Sleigh Ride, the overture to his Broadway musical Goldilocks, The Rakes of Mallow, Belle of the Ball, Plink Plank Plunk, Fiddle Faddle, The Waltzing Cat, The Typewriter and Chicken Reel.
81 Orchestral London
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:58:00
This hour includes the London Cameos Suite by Haydn Wood, the London Suite and London Again Suite by Eric Coates, and the minuet movement from the Symphony No. 104 ("The London") by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Compact Discoveries 142: More Leroy Anderson
From Fred Flaxman | Part of the Compact Discoveries series | 00:57:30
Selections include Bugler’s Holiday, A Trumpeter’s Lullaby, Saraband, The Phantom Regiment, Serenata, Forgotten Dreams, Song of the Bells, The Sandpaper Ballet, The Penny Whistle Song, Mother’s Whistler, Promenade, Horse and Buggy, Home Stretch, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Anderson's Sousa-esque rendition of Meredith Wilson’s Seventy-Six Trombones from the Broadway musical The Music Man.
