The Asheville Symphony Orchestra on Blue Ridge Public Radio
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many music organizations to cancel performances and entire seasons. The Asheville Symphony Orchestra was one of them that decided not to perform this fall, but is working with Blue Ridge Public Radio to bring you several encore concerts and many earlier performances that were never broadcast. Here is the broadcast schedule for BPR Classic. For your local frequency click here.
¡Exótico! - Tuesday, August 18, 10:00 am & Friday, August 21, 2:00 pm
Darko Butorac, conductor, Blake Pouliot, violin
Recorded September 21, 2019
Ginastera: Four Dances from Estancia
Piazzola: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Revueltas: Sensemayá
Ravel: Boléro
Mountains to Sea - Tuesday, August 25, 10:00 am & Friday, August 28
Darko Butorac, conductor, Asheville Symphony Chorus
Recorded February 22, 2020
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
ASO Rediscovered - Air dates: Tuesday, September 1, 10:00 am & Friday, September 4, 1:00 pm
Recorded November 28, 2017 and January 19, 2019
Theofanidis: Rainbow Body
Mozart: Piano Concerto 23 (soloist: Lisa Smirnova, piano)
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila'
Prokofiev: Symphony 5
Poulenc: Gloria
ASO Rediscovered -Air dates: Tuesday, September 8, 10:00 am & Friday, September 11, 1:00 pm
Mozart: Symphony 25 (Recorded March 25, 2019)
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (soloist: Zlatomir Fung, cello) (Recorded Nov. 15, 2019)
Marquez: Danzon No. 2 (Recorded May 11, 2019)
Shostakovich: Symphony 5 (Recorded Sep 15, 2018)
Dvorak: Violin Concerto, third movement only (Recorded Feb. 23, 2019)
ASO Rediscovered -Tuesday, September 15, 10:00 am & Friday, September 11
Recorded October 13, 2018 and September 15, 2018
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto 5 (soloist: Adele Anthony, violin)
Liszt: Piano Concerto 1 - George Li, piano (Sep 15, 2018)
Schumann: Symphony 4
ASO Rediscovered (TBA) - Air dates: Tuesday, September 22, 10:00 am & Friday, September 25, 1:00 pm