Saturday, January 1, at 1:30 pm
Rossini: Moses and Pharaoh
A rarely heard French drama by Rossini, from the cradle of Italian opera, La Scala in Milan. This is a revision of Rossini’s 1818 Moses in Egypt, first performed in Paris in 1827. Riccardo Muti conducts.
Ildar Abdrazakov (Moses); Erwin Schrott (Pharoah); Sonia Ganassi (Sinaide); Giuseppe Filianoti (Amenophis); Barbara Friittoli (Anai); Tamislav Muzek (Eleazar)
Saturday, January 1, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 2, at 6:00 am
WGBH Radio Boston and National Public Radio present the traditional New Year’s Day concert of the world-famous Vienna Philharmonic for the 25th year. Performed in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, and conducted by Lorin Maazel, the 2005 holiday concert features waltzes, polkas and marches by members of Vienna's beloved Strauss family. NPR's Korva Coleman is the host.
(Pre-empts Performance Today repeat)
Sunday, January 2, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in Central Pennsylvania at the wonderful Barshinger Center for the Arts on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College.
Thursday, January 6 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 9, at 10:00 pm
Strauss: Don Quixote
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
(Robert Spano, conductor; Christopher Rex, cello; Lang Lang, piano)
(Replaces Studio GPB Sessions)
Friday, January 7, at 3:00 pm
Host Mike Savage is joined by Secretary of State Cathy Cox, Public Service Commission Chairman Robert Baker, and a representative from the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, to answer listeners' consumer questions. The number to call is 1-866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
Saturday, January 8, at 1:30 pm
Verdi: Gustavo III
Verdi wrote this opera for the same theater this production comes from, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy. But the censors nixed it, so Verdi took it elsewhere and turned it into A Masked Ball. This is the original version straight from the venue Verdi intended it for from the start. Renato Palumbo conducts.
Elisabete Matos (Amelia); Carlo Ventre (Gustavo III); Vladimir Stoyanov (Ankastrom); Larissa Diadkova (Arvedson); Cinzia Forte (Oscar)
Saturday, January 8, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, January 8, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, January 9, at 10:00 am
Southern storyteller and humorist Bud Harbis comes to GPB. Set in Harbis’ hardware store on the courthouse square of the fictional Georgia town of Pointing Dog, The Pointing Dog Social Club features a fun mix of humor from members of the "club" and notable music recording artists performing songs that span the spectrum from country music to blues. Headlining the musical performances for The Pointing Dog Social Club are legendary country and rock musician Marshall Chapman, and Jim Wann, the Tony-nominated author and performer of Broadway’s Pump Boys and Dinettes.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette repeat)
Sunday, January 9, at 1:00 pm
This episode of From the Top, recorded at the historic Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York, features a special guest, Peter Schickele. Schickele is known as the perpetrator of P.D.Q. Bach and universally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the world of music. Each of today's young musicians performs a piece by Schickele, and From the Top's guest performs one of his own songs.
Wednesday, January 12, at 8:00 pm
GPB Radio and TV will simulcast live coverage of Governor Perdue's annual State of the State Address to the Georgia General Assembly. His address will be followed by the Democratic response from Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor.
(Pre-empts first hour of Studio GPB)
Thursday, January 13 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 16, at 10:00 pm
Carter: Allegro scorrevole
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
(Robert Spano, conductor; Louis Lortie, piano)
Saturday, January 15, at 1:30 pm
Charpentier: David and Jonathan
From 1688, the biblical story of a future leader, exiled and forced to wage war against his closest friend, before finally being accepted by his own people and declared King. Emmanuelle Haim conducts this performance from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
Mark Padmore (David); Jaël Azzaretti (Jonathan); Laurent Naouri (Saul); Andrew Foster-Williams (Achis)
Saturday, January 15, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 16, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in beautiful Rockport, Maine, visiting the renowned Bay Chamber Concerts Series. The show will feature a three students, all from the same high school in Maine, as well as a horn player from Texas, and a clarinetist from California.
Monday, January 17, at 9:00 am
Recorded in the Martin Luther King, Jr., International Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, the celebration features the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano. The Spelman and Morehouse Glee Clubs and mezzo-soprano Theresa Hamm Smith perform along with the ASO. The program includes Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Overture, Leonard Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony, William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony, and Frederick Tillis's "Everytime I Feel the Spirit."
Thursday, January 20 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 23, at 10:00 pm
Strauss: Don Juan
Creston: Fantasy for Trombone
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
(Alexander Mikelthwate, conductor; Colin Williams, trombone)
Saturday, January 22, at 1:30 pm
Bellini: The Capulets and the Montagues
The "bel canto" master takes on the familiar story -- a drama based on early legends of Romeo and Juliet, and not on the classic version by Shakespeare. Giuliano Carella conducts the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium.
Ekaterina Siurina (Guilietta); Ruxandra Donose (Romeo); Cesarae Catani (Tebaldo); Giovanni Furlanetto (Capellio); Léonard Grauss (Lorenzo)
Saturday, January 22, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 23, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in bluegrass country, introducing audiences to some wonderful ensembles in this music-rich area. Broadcasting from Comstock Concert Hall at the University of Louisville, viewers will enjoy Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, performed by The Youth Performing Arts School Philharmonia, comprised of 35 talented young performers aged 15 to 18, and conducted by Lyndon Lawless. In addition to performances by three young soloists playing the piano, cello, and violin, respectively, the show will feature the Northern Hills Bassoon Ensemble made up of six young artists aged 13 to 17.
Thursday, January 27 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 30, at 10:00 pm
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss (complete ballet)
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien
(David Robertson, conducts; Orli Shaham, piano)
Saturday, January 29, at 1:30 pm
Gounod: Romeo and Juliet
A French Romantic take on the story of the star-crossed lovers. (This one is based on Shakespeare.) Marcello Viotti conducts the Bavarian State Opera, Munich.
Angela-Maria Blasi (Juliet); Marcelo Alvarez (Romeo); Anna Bonitatibus (Stephano); Maurizio Muraro (Friar Lawrence); Manolito Mario Franz (Benvolio); Martin Gantner (Mercutio); Christian Rieger (Paris)
Saturday, January 29, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, January 29, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, January 30, at 1:00 pm
This show, hosted by the Thorton School of Music at the University of Southern California, marks From the Top's Los Angeles debut. The featured performers are a 17-year-old violinist and a 10-year-old pianist, each from California; a 17-year-old trumpeter from Jacksonville, Florida; and a 14-year-old cellist from Massachusetts.
Sunday, January 30, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, February 6, at 10:00 am
Host St. John Flynn welcomes Georgia author Terry Kay, talking and taking calls about his novel The Valley of Light (Atria, 2003). In the summer of 1948, Noah Locke arrives in the small North Carolina hamlet of Bowerstown, set deep in the "Valley of Light" on the Hiawassee River between Hiawassee, Georgia, and Hayesville, North Carolina. A quiet, simple man, with an almost mystical gift for fishing, Noah is soon drawn into the private lives of the locals with remarkable consequences. The number to call is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
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