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Classical Music with Walter Parker

Weekdays 9a.m. - 1p.m.
Walter Parker

Veteran host Walter Parker presents the best in classical music, from familiar favorites to little-known gems. Regular live performances from the VPR Performance Studio add spice to the repertoire.

Browse Walter's playlists below. For playlists from before April 2013, visit the Archive.

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May 24, 2013

9:02 AM
String Symphony #10 in b
Artist : Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Album : Mendelssohn: Streichersinfonien Nr. 8 - 9 - 10
Composer : Felix Mendelssohn
Catalog : 437528
Label : Deutsche Grammophon
9:14 AM
English Suite #4 in F BWV 809
Artist : Murray Perahia, piano
Album : Bach: English Suites Nos. 2, 4, 5 - Murray Perahia
Composer : Johann Sebastian Bach
Catalog : 60277
Label : Sony
9:35 AM
Cello Concerto in a Op. 129
Artist : Berlin Philharmonic; Heinrich Schiff, cello
Album : Schumann: Cello Concerto
Composer : Robert Schumann
Catalog : 422414
Conductor : Bernard Haitink
Label : Philips
10:01 AM
Trio Sonata #6 in c
Artist : Heinz Holliger, oboe; Maurice Bourgue, oboe; Klaus Thunemann, bassoon; Christiane Jaccottet, harpsichord
Album : Zelenka: Trio Sonatas
Composer : Jan Dismas Zelenka
Catalog : 1671
Label : ECM
10:17 AM
Violin Concerto in D Op. 77
Artist : Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Julia Fischer, violin
Album : Brahms - Fischer - Muller-Schott - Kreizberg
Composer : Johannes Brahms
Catalog : 5186066
Conductor : Yakov Kreizberg
Label : PentaTone
11:01 AM
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:03 AM
La danse de Puck
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:06 AM
Minstrels
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:08 AM
Bruyeres
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:11 AM
General Lavine - excentric
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:14 AM
Feux d’artifice
Artist : Alexei Lubimov, piano
Album : Claude Debussy: Preludes; Alexei Lubimov
Composer : Claude Debussy
Catalog : 2241/42
Label : ECM
11:21 AM
Concerto for Orchestra
Artist : Budapest Festival Orchestra
Album : Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Composer : Bela Bartok
Catalog : 456 575
Conductor : Ivan Fischer
Label : Philips
11:57 AM
Hey tulip, tulip, from For Children
Artist : The Crofut Consort
Album : Bartok & Kodaly - The Crofut Consort
Composer : Bela Bartok
Catalog : 46
Label : Albany
12:05 PM
Concerto Grosso #12 in b Op. 6/12
Artist : Boston Baroque
Album : Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, #7-12
Composer : George Frideric Handel
Catalog : 80688
Conductor : Martin Pearlman
Label : Telarc
12:18 PM
Second Rhapsody
Artist : Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Album : George Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra
Composer : George Gershwin
Catalog : 9252
Conductor : Justin Brown
Label : Bridge
12:35 PM
Czech Suite Op. 39
Artist : Czech Philharmonic
Album : Smetana: Ma Vlast - Dvorak: Symphony No. 4
Composer : Antonin Dvorak
Catalog : 61739
Conductor : Libor Pesek
Label : Virgin Classics

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Live Performances
1:20 pm
Mon May 20, 2013

Opera Company of Middlebury Live

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Soprano, Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill
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Baritone, Darik Knutsen (left) and Tenor, Bray Wilkins
OCM poster includes 'Young Girl with Green Eyes' by Alexej von Jawlensky.
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The Opera Company of Middlebury provides a live preview of their 10th anniversary production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.  They will give 5 fully-staged performances in Russian with English supertitles May 31 to June 8 at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater.

Midday Classics
2:14 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Scrag Mountain Music Live

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Scrag Mountain Music
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Marc Uys, Walter Parker, Evan Premo, Jacqueline Kerrod and Mary Bonhag
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Scrag Mountain Music is soprano Mary Bonhag and double bassist Evan Premo.  This week they are joined by Clockwise, harpist Jacqueline Kerrod and violinist Marc Uys, for music of Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst and others.  They join Walter Parker for a preview.

Listen Friday morning May 17 at 11.

Musical Conversations
10:39 am
Wed May 15, 2013

Conductor Ronald Feldman

Conductor Ronald Feldman
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Thursday 5/16/13.  Walter Parker speaks with conductor Ronald Feldman, who will lead the Burlington Chamber Orchestra on Saturday in music of Britten, Bach, Haydn and young composer Noah Marconi.

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Midday Classics
11:00 am
Wed May 8, 2013

Heliand Consort Live

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The Heliand Consort performing live at VPR
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The Heliand Consort will tour northern Vermont May 8-11 with music of Telemann, Dvorak and others for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano.  They join Walter Parker in the VPR Performance Studio for a live preview.

Midday Classics
6:21 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Michael Arnowitt Live

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Michael Arnowitt
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Vermont pianist Michael Arnowitt stops by the VPR Performance Studio for a live preview of his recital this Sunday at 3 at Montpelier Unitarian Church, including music of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Copland.

Midday Classics
1:55 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Remembering Cellist Janos Starker

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Janos Starker
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The great Hungarian-born cellist Janos Starker died Sunday at age 88.  Walter Parker speaks with cellist Daniel Lelchuk, a native of the Upper Valley, who spent a year studying with Starker.

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Midday Classics
1:54 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Lux Aeterna

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This Sunday the Burlington Choral Society will perform Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light).  We'll listen to this remarkably beautiful work from 1997 Thursday morning at a bit past 10 on VPR Classical.

Classical With Walter Parker
9:00 am
Wed April 3, 2013

Cellist David Finckel

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The Emerson String Quartet will play music of Dvorak, Schumann and Grieg tonight at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth. It will be one of their last concerts with cellist David Finckel, ending 34 years of the same personnel. At 11 this morning we'll listen to him speak about his strong Vermont connection.

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Classical With Walter Parker
11:00 am
Mon March 25, 2013

A Conversation With Scott Metcalfe

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Blue Heron
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Scott Metcalfe is a Vermont native (son of well-known local musicians William and Elizabeth Metcalfe) who now directs Blue Heron, Boston's professional Renaissance choir. Blue Heron will perform music of Johannes Ockeghem at St. Michael's College this evening and at Grace Church in Rutland tomorrow evening.

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11:00 am
Tue January 22, 2013

Ariel Quartet Live

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The Ariel Quartet warms up in the VPR Performance Studio in Colchester prior to their live performance.
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Wednesday evening the Ariel Quartet will perform the next installment of the Beethoven Quartet Cycle taking place at College Street Congregational Church in Burlington. We'll get a live preview this morning at 11.

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