Each Saturday evening at 8:00 on WHRO-FM, “This Just In” offers three hours dedicated to the newest classical releases, carefully selected by Raymond Jones to help you discover what’s worth hearing, streaming, or adding to your collection.
The program opens with Franz Liszt’s setting of “Psalm 13,” conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham and featuring tenor Walter Midgley with the Beecham Choral Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This work is included in a recent release that shines fresh light on Beecham’s stereo recordings, restoring the vivid choral and orchestral color that made his interpretations so distinctive.
From the Resonus Classics label comes a significant recent release devoted to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Her Piano Concerto in F minor is performed by pianist Samantha Ege with the BBC Philharmonic under John Andrews. The album, which pairs the concerto with other orchestral works, continues the important reassessment of Coleridge-Taylor’s voice.
We continue our ongoing exploration of the Shostakovich symphonies recorded live by the London Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda. This week it’s Symphony No. 14, a powerful and intimate work that focuses on themes of death and reflection, written for a small orchestra, rather than full symphonic forces.
American contemporary music is represented by Raymond Weidner’s “Frescos – Suite for Organ,” performed by the composer himself and featured on Raven Records’ recent album “Organ Music of Raymond Weidner.”
Jazz meets chamber music in Wynton Marsalis’s “Meeelaan for bassoon and string quartet,” performed by bassoonist Frank Morelli and the Callisto Quartet on the Musica Solis album “From the Soul.” And we’ll hear Benjamin Britten’s Cello Sonata in C major performed by siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, from their recent Decca release.
Discover these and other standout new recordings Saturday evening at 8:00 on WHRO-FM 90.3, or online, with ‘This Just In.’
