Cedille Chicago Presents

This week's concluding edition of Cedille Chicago Presents offers a final look at the most prolific artists to record for Cedille.

This week's show features 4 great composers from Chicago's past.

This week's show features 5 Chicago choirs that have recorded for Cedille Records.

The first of our last 5 shows (the 2-year run of Cedille Chicago Presents ends on April 29) features Chicago vocal soloists.

This week's program features the four Chicago orchestras that have multiple recordings on the Cedille label.

We continue our final Cedille Chicago Presents countdown with a program featuring chamber ensembles.

This week's show features 4 great wind soloists, all of whom have or had prominent positions in the Chicago Symphony or Grant Park Orchestras.

The 2nd of our last 10 shows features 3 string soloists who grew up together in Chicago.

Our last-10-shows countdown begins with a program spotlighting the 6 most prolific keyboard soloists in the Cedille catalog.

This week ’s program celebrates Black History Month with selections by 7 different composers of African descent, ranging from the 18th century to the present day.

This week’s program showcases Cedille’s first new release for 2015: pianist Jorge Federico Osorio’s Russian Recital of music by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

In advance of the 57th annual Grammy Awards, Cedille Chicago Presents looks at Cedille’s history at the Grammys, including a piece that is up for an award this year.

This week, Cedille Chicago Presents celebrates Mozart’s birthday (Jan. 27, 1756) with vocal and instrumental selections.

This week's show falls on the day after Walter Piston's birthday (Jan. 20, 1894), so we commemorate with music by that great American composer and 3 of his most celebrated students.

This week, Cedille Chicago Presents celebrates the 325th anniversary of the invention of the clarinet with 7 diverse selections featuring that instrument.

Our first show of 2015 is a program of waltzes not from Vienna.

A Christmas Program.

This week’s Cedille Chicago Presents concludes our 2-program overview of Cedille Records’ releases for 2014 and features selections from the 3 new albums and one specially priced boxed set Cedille issued this fall (full playlist below).

This week’s Cedille Chicago Presents program will begin our overview of Cedille Records’ releases for 2014. The first of our 2 year-in-review shows features selections from Cedille’s first 5 releases for 2014: one digital playlist and 4 CD albums.

For Thanksgiving, this week’s show features works praising God by Chicago composers Leo Sowerby and William Ferris.

This week’s show is devoted to music by Benjamin Britten, on the week of his 101st birthday anniversary.

This week’s show presents Cedille’s final release for 2014, featuring orchestral Overtures (really suites) by English Baroque composer Maurice Greene (1696–1755) (full playlist below).

For the week of Election Day, a program of music about 3 important American political figures who never ran for office.

This week's program features spooky, sinister, and satanic selections for Halloween.

This week's program features works by 20th-century Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Mieczyslaw Weinberg, in honor of Polish-American Heritage Month.

This week we sample Cedille’s two new releases for October: albums featuring the Lincoln Trio and New Budapest Orpheum Society.

This week we present an all-mazurkas program as part of our Polish American Heritage Month celebration. The mazurka is a dance form that originated in Poland, although most of the pieces on this week’s show come from Mexico.

This week’s program is devoted to Chopin and features performances by pianist Dmitry Paperno.

This week's program features piano concertos by John La Montaine and Carlos Chávez, with performances by Ramon Salvatore and Jorge Federico Osorio, respectively.

This week's program features wind concertos, with solo flutists Anita Miller-Rieder, Mary Stolper, and Mathieu Dufour, and oboist Alex Klein.

This week's program features concertos for cello and string quartet, with soloists Katinka Kleijn and Wendy Warner, cellists, and the Harlem Quartet. Playlist: DAVID BAKER (b. 1931) Cello Concerto (1975) III. Fast (6:09) From African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. III Cedille Records CDR 90000 066 (Track 4) Katinka Kleijn, cello Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, conductor BENJAMIN LEES Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (20:49) I. Allegro con brio II. Andante cantando III. Allegro energico From Delights & Dances Cedille Records CDR 90000 141 (Tracks 2–4) Harlem Quartet Chicago Sinfonietta Mei-Ann Chen, conductor JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK (1737–1781) Cello Concerto in C major (20:40) I. Allegro moderato II. Grave III. Tempo di minuetto From Haydn & Mysliveček Cello Concertos Cedille Records CDR 90000 142 (Tracks 4–6) Wendy Warner Camerata Chicago Drostan Hall, Conductor LEONARD BERNSTEIN ARR. RANDAL CRAIG FLEISCHER West Side Story Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra Tonight (3:17) From Delights & Dances Cedille Records CDR 90000 141 (Track 9) Harlem Quartet Chicago Sinfonietta Mei-Ann Chen, conductor  

This week's program features violin concertos, with performances by Jennifer Koh and Rachel Barton Pine.

This week's program features works by Chicago composer Easley Blackwood (b. 1933), with the composer at the keyboard for most of them.

This week's program features music by Chicago composer William Ferris (1937–2000) and performances by the ensemble that bears his name, the William Ferris Chorale.

Two new releases for August are this week's feature. This hour includes selections from Fifth House ensemble’s Excelsoir, and soprano Patrice Michaels and friends’ INTERSECTION: Jazz Meets Classical Song.

This week’s program features music by Chicago composer Leo Sowerby (1895-1968), in observance of Chicago month on WFMT.

In anticipation of Chicago month on WFMT (August), this week’s program features the 3 Cedille albums that have “Chicago” in their titles.

This week, the 2nd of 2 all-Franch programs in commemoration of the French national Bastille Day holiday features French music from Berlioz to Messiaen.

This week, the first of 2 all-French programs in commemoration of the French national Bastille Day holiday features music from that country’s baroque and classical periods (17th and 18th centuries).

This week's show features music of American composer David Diamond, whose 99th birthday anniversary falls on our July 9 air date.

This week: an all-American program for Independence Day.

This week marks the 183rd birthday anniversary of the great violinist/composer Joseph Joachim. We celebrate with Cedille's Grammy-nominated recording of Joachim's colossal Violin Concerto "In the Hungarian Style " plus the cadenza Joachim wrote for the Brahms Violin Concerto, of which Joachim gave the premiere in 1879.

For the week in which summer officially begins, we present music associated with the season.

For the week of Fathers’ Day, we present music by Franz Joseph “Papa” Haydn.

This week's show features the music of Robert Schumann, 1810-1856.

This week's show features our new release for May: Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets, with Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet

This week's show continues our survey of clarinetists who've recorded for Chicago's classical label.

This week's show celebrates Chicago Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal Clarinet player John Bruce Yeh with selections from all 6 of his Cedille albums.

This week's show celebrates the artistry of clarinetist Larry Combs, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet 1978–2008 and a founding member of The Chicago Chamber Musicians.

This week's show features our new release for April, "Two x Four," with violinists Jennifer Koh and her mentor, Jaime Laredo, along with a look back at the digital playlist we launched in February: "The Virtuoso Paperno"

For the week of Earth Day, we present music about our planet, its challenges, and some of its greatest features.