Carolina Live
Carolina Live travels the region and features classical musicians from our area as well as those of international renown who visit our performance halls. Lauren Rico hosts the series.
Note: Carolina Live is looking for professional-quality vocal or instrumental recordings made in concert in the Carolinas in the past couple of years. Mail them to: Box 8990, Davidson, NC 28035-8990, attn. Carolina Live. For more info, call 877.333.8990.
An insect-themed concert from the Winston-Salem Symphony’s 2011-2012 season, with famous works from Vaughan Williams and Rimsky-Korsakov and a fluttery Chinese violin concerto redolent with atmosphere. Then the focus shifts to Central Europe for one of the Slavonic Dances by Dvořák, and his all too often overlooked Symphony No. 7
The closing concert from the Greenville Symphony Orchestra's 2011-2012 Chamber Series, with Rossini's Barber of Seville Overture, piano music from Poulenc and Stravinski's Pulcinella Suite.
A program of orchestral showstoppers from the opening concert of Winston-Salem Symphony's 65th Season. Pianist Orion Weiss joins the orchestra for Grieg’s evergreen concerto, plus Barber's Adagio for Strings and Brahms’ final symphony.
The Greenville Symphony plays 18th century masterworks from Mozart in this "Chamber" series concert, including a pair of opera overtures and his great “Jupiter” Symphony No. 41. Then it’s back to the 2011 Southeastern Piano Festival to hear the Anderson & Roe piano duo playing their arrangement of a Vivaldi aria.
The Greensboro Symphony with award-winning violinist Ray Chen plays Max Bruch’s beloved concerto, plus "The Moldau" from Bedrich Smetana's Ma Vlast and a well-known symphony by fellow Bohemian Antonin Dvořák. It's all part of the Greensboro Symphony's 2011-2012 "Season of Winners."
This 2008 program from the Keowee Chamber Chamber Music Festival evokes summer breezes, with "Serenades" by Post-Romantics Max Reger and Ernst von Dóhnanyi. The show is rounded out by offerings from the Impressionist Debussy, and a flute quartet by Mozart.
Of Bach’s Passions for Holy Week the St. John is less–often performed because of its controversial text. Nevertheless, it’s widely acknowledged as a masterwork of the Western musical canon. Here it is performed by the Winston-Salem Symphony with the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale and guest soloists.
For this "Soundscapes" concert from the South Carolina Philharmonic, an orchestral piece by rock musician Jonny Greenwood of the British band Radiohead, plus a Brahms Double Concerto and music by the Finnish master Jean Sibelius.
From USC’s School of Music in Columbia, violinist Michael Ludwig is the featured soloist in a concerto drawn from John Corigliano’s Academy Award-winning score for the film The Red Violin. Plus, music from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and an immortal Beethoven piano concerto.
From the USC School of Music's innovative chamber music series Chamber Innovista, a March, 2009, concert featuring work by Camille Saint-Saëns and the little known Wenzeslaus Matiegka. Then to November, 2011, for a rare performance of Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale."
