For the next two weeks, there’ll be a lot to keep your ears busy on Classical 88 one’s “New at Noon.” And while you listen, you can conjure up all manner of elaborate choreography on your mental stage.

“Best Ballet 100″[more...]

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Herbert von Karajan is listed in the Guinness Book as the best-selling classical artist of all time, with perhaps 200 million of his recordings having been sold all over the world.

Karajan was born in Mozart’s hometown of Salzburg, Austria, in[more...]

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For the sixteen years he was music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony, Sir Simon Rattle transformed that orchestra into one of Britain’s and Europe’s best. One critic said that Rattle “consistently displayed the genius to turn familiar music[more...]

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One of the hallmarks of Chicago violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s career has been her advocacy of lesser-known historic repertoire. Her latest recording revives a remarkable concerto that probably hasn’t been performed for nearly two centuries.

Franz Clement was a Vienna native, born in[more...]

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This week, on New at Noon, we feature the commemorative CD put out by our very own Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of their 75th Anniversary, “Portrait: Celebrating 75 Years and 4 Music Directors”  Today, we heard a performance from[more...]

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