Lyrichord Early & Classical Music Podcast
Recent Episodes
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LECMS 021: Jerry Willard's Night at the Opera
Show number 21 of the Lyrichord Early and Classical Show Podcast features a new engaging interview with guitarist and lutenist Jerry Willard and guest host Mark Greenberg - musician, writer, and proprietor of Upstreet Productions, specializing in traditional folk music and oral history. Willard's newest recording on the Lyrichord Early Music Series, "Jerry Willard's Night at the Opera" is the star of this edition. The album features rare arrangements of movements from the operas by Rossini,...
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LECMS 020: Johannes Somary and John Ostendorf
This episode of the Lyrichord Early and Classical Show podcast features an interview with Johannes Somary, world renowned conductor now in his forty-fifth year as Music Director and Founder of the AmorArtis Orchestra and Chorus, and the Fairfield County Chorale. He is joined for this program by his colleague John Ostendorf; the much heralded American bass-baritone who changed careers to become a successful classical record producer. Maestro Somary's discography claims over fifty recordings,...
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LECMS 015: JS BACH, Part 1
Episode 15 begins another multi-show topic, this time focusing on the work of one of music's greatest composers, JS Bach. Part One of the Bach features Bach Keyboard Trio Sonata performances on lautenwerk by Shawn Leopard and John Paul, movements from Cantata #10 and Cantata #47, by the London Bach Society with Nigel Rogers, tenor Sally Le Sage, soprano and the English Chamber Orchestra with Paul Steinitz conducting. Then Jerry Willard performs Prelude from Suite #1 and the famous "Bouree"...
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LECMS 007: The Baroque Flute
On this episode of the Lyrichord Early and Classical Show podcast - Nick and Jeffrey discuss the origins and performance practice of the wooden baroque flute, and how it differs from the recorder and from the modern silver flute. Georg Philipp Telemann is the composer of all the works played on this program, featuring the various Lyrichord recordings of baroque flutist Tom Moore and his colleagues.
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LECMS 003: The Countertenors, Part 3
In part three of "The Countertenors", Jeffrey Dooley provides back-story about making the landmark Nonesuch recording "Purcell Airs and Duets", Nick and Jeffrey then dig back to the 14th Century to play an example of the countertenor voice in ensemble renaissance polyphony by Kevin Moll's group Schola Discantus, and then move to the realm of fantasy with Dooley's historically anomalous excursion into Stephen Foster's music, performed by countertenor with baroque ensemble.
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- Early Music, Baroque
- English
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