Welcome to Essential Classics from 91.3, WUKY HD 2.This is your home for the world’s greatest classical music, 24/7. Here we present full-length symphonies, concertos, and sonatas as they were meant to be heard: complete and without interruption. In addition you’ll hear both the best performances of our own time and the most remarkable recordings of the past – both stereo and mono – often played from the original vinyl LPs.WUKY is announcing its recent partnership with the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington was not able to present its typical 10-day event celebrating chamber music. While CMFL is back for the 2021 season, the festival will be an abbreviated version offering three Mainstage concerts at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center on September 16th-19th, 2021. However, to offer listeners even more of the chamber music they love leading up to the festival, WUKY will re-broadcast highlights from past CMFL seasons handpicked by Artistic Director Nathan Cole -- complete with musical commentary from CMFL’s Executive Director Taylor Jewell, a master’s student in arts administration, and Sean Radermacher, a doctoral student in conducting, both of whom attend the University of Kentucky. The performances will air on WUKY’s HD-2 channel, Essential Classics. The first broadcast will be available Tuesday, July 13th and will feature performances of Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.3 from the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington’s second season in 2008.The broadcasts will continue for six consecutive weeks, on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and again the following Sundays at noon. Visit www.wuky.org for more information as the schedule becomes available. WUKY General Manager, Tom Godell, said “The concerts of the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington are one of the most significant events in Lexington's musical life. The excellence of the performances and the diversity of the repertory are unquestioned. We are delighted to add these thrilling performances to the WUKY HD-2 broadcast schedule."Listeners who do not have an HD radio or who live outside Central Kentucky can listen online via WUKY.org, with their smart speaker (say "Play WUKY HD Two") or with the WUKY phone app from the Play Store or iTunes.Essential Classics is Central Kentucky's home for the world’s greatest classical music, 24/7. Complete, full-length symphonies, concertos and sonatas are presented without interruption. Selections include the best performances of our own time and the most remarkable recordings of the past — both stereo and mono — often played from the original vinyl LPs.WUKY is a community-supported service of the University of Kentucky, which provides high-quality news, cultural and entertainment content through the use of existing and emerging media to create a more informed and engaged community.ARTIST INFORMATION:When the core ensemble Nathan Cole, Akiko Tarumoto, Burchard Tang, Priscilla Lee, and Alessio Bax came together for the first festival in 2007, they were already among the most recognized musicians in their field. As we prepare for the 15th season, their resumes and accomplishments have multiplied. Even as they become ever more in demand on an international stage, they have continued to make the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington a priority, where they maintain a love for our community and the many friends they have made over the last 15 years.INFO ON OTHER BROADCASTS:The second broadcast will air July 20th and July 25th and features highlights from the 2009 season, including performances of Elgar’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in A minor, Enescu’s Sonata No. 3 in A minor of Violin and Piano, and the world premiere recording of Clancy Newman’s piece Dream Sequence, written as part of CMFL’s Composer in Residence program.The third broadcast will air July 27th and August 1st and features highlights from the 2011 season, including performances of Dvorak’s Terzetto for Two Violins and Viola, Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major, and the world premiere recording of Daniel Kellogg’s Look up at the Sky, written as part of CMFL’s Composer in Residence program.The fourth broadcast will air August 3rd and August 8th and features highlights from the 2014 season, including performances of Schubert’s Grand Duo, another world premiere recording of Adam Schoenberg’s composition Go, which was commissioned by CMFL as part of the Composer-in-Residence program, Salonen’s Homunculus for String Quartet, Gershwin’s Summertime, and Schnurr’s Of Mother and Daughter: Seven Ages, a Meditation.The fifth broadcast will air August 10th and August 15th and features highlights from the 2017 season, including performances of Schubert’s “Rosamunde” String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, Shostakovich’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, and the world premiere recording of Matt Ulrey’s Become Giant, commissioned by CMFL as part of the Composer-in-Residence program.The final broadcast will air August 17th and August 22nd and features highlights from the 2019 season, including WindSync’s performance of the Voyager Golden Record Suite, the CKYO All-Stars on Boccherini’s String Quintet No. 1, Moszkowski’s Suite for Two Violins and Piano, and Schumann’s Marchenbilder for Viola and Piano.0000017c-9d75-d6fa-a57f-ff77ebb70000We are launching this service with the “100 Essential Classics” as selected by WUKY General Manager and long-time veteran classical music radio broadcaster Tom Godell. His list includes many of the “usual suspects” – symphonies of Beethoven and Mozart; concertos by Brahms, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky – as well as a few surprises from William Grant Still and Clara Schumann. Albinoni Adagio (Neville Marriner/ASMF)Bach Brandenburg Concerto 3 (St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra)Bach Orchestral Suite 3 (Helmuth Rilling/Oregon Bach Festival)Bach Toccata and Fugue in d (Leopold Stokowski/Czech Philharmonic)Barber Adagio for Strings (Thomas Schippers/New York Philharmonic)Bartok Concerto for Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic)Beethoven Symphony 3 (Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic)Beethoven Symphony 5 (Serge Koussevitzky/Boston Symphony)Beethoven Symphony 6 (Leonard Bernstein/Vienna Philharmonic)Beethoven Piano Concerto 5 (Emil Gilels; George Szell/Cleveland Orchestra)Beethoven Violin Concerto (Henryk Szeryng; Bernard Haitink/Concertgebouw)Beethoven Egmont Overture (Adrian Boult/London Promenade Orchestra)Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (Dubravka Tomsic)Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Thomas Beecham/French National Radio Orchestra)Bizet Carmen Suite (Leopold Stokowski/National Philharmonic)Bizet L’Arlesienne Suites (Thomas Beecham/Royal Philharmonic)Bizet Symphony 1(Leonard Bernstein/New York)Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Loris Tjeknavorian/National Philharmonic)Borodin String Quartet 2 (Borodin Quartet)Brahms Hungarian Dances 1, 3, 10 (Claudio Abbado/Vienna Philharmonic)Brahms Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein; Anatole Fistolari/Philharmonia Orchestra)Bruch Scottish Fantasy (Jascha Heifetz; Sargent/New Symphony of London)Bruckner Symphony 4 (Zubin Mehta/Los Angeles Philharmonic)Chabrier Espana (Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony)Chopin Polonaise Fantasie (Ivan Moravec)Copland Rodeo (Louis Lane/Atlanta Symphony)Debussy La Mer (Jean-Claude Casadesus/Lille National Orchestra)Dvorak Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pre; Celibidache/Swedish Radio Symphony)Dvorak Symphony 9 (Kurt Masur/New York Philharmonic)Elgar Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pre; Barbirolli/London Symphony)Elgar Enigma Variations (Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra)Enesco Romanian Rhapsody 1 (Leopold Stokowski/RCA Victor Symphony)Falla 3 Cornered Hat (Pierre Boulez/New York Philharmonic)Faure Pavane (Thomas Beecham/ORTF National Orchestra)Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (Michael Tilson Thomas/Los Angeles Philharmonic)Glazunov The Seasons (Edo De Waart/Minnesota Orchestra)Glinka Kamarinskaya (Albert Coates/London Symphony)Grieg Holberg Suite (Morten Sorensen/Copenhagen Youth Strings)Grieg Peer Gynt (Thomas Beecham/