Each Saturday evening at 8:00 on WHRO-FM, “This Just In” offers three hours of recent classical releases masterfully curated by your host, Raymond Jones, an opportunity to discover new recordings and hear the artists bringing them to life.
This Week, Raymond Jones welcomes cellist Juliana Soltis for a conversation about her latest project: a newly released recording of “An Elegy” by the little-known American composer Helen Crane. Soltis, who lives in Richmond, has been championing Crane’s music and recently recorded the piece with pianist Emile Blondell. The single follows her earlier album “American Woman” and reflects her ongoing effort to rediscover Crane’s legacy, including tracking down a score that had remained forgotten for more than eight decades.
Also on the program is Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 “To the Dear Lord,” presented here in a completed four-movement version with the Hallé Orchestra under Kahchun Wong. Bruckner left the symphony unfinished at his death, and modern completions attempt to realize the composer’s vision for its final movement.
Season music for the Easter period comes from the Renaissance composer Marc’Antonio Ingegneri. We’ll hear selections from “Volume Five: Motets for the Liturgical Year,” performed by the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, together with The Western Wyndes under Gareth Wilson.
From the American composer Arnold Rosner comes “Now Cometh Our Redeemer,” performed by the wind ensemble Density 512 on a recent release from Toccata Classics.
And perfectly suited for the season, we’ll hear “The Life of Flowers,” a piano suite by Croatian composer Dora Pejačević, performed by pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva.
Hear what’s new in classical music this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. on WHRO-FM 90.3, or listen online, with “This Just In.”
