Escher Quartet, photo courtesy of Peninsula Reviews

PROGRAM AIRS: 8 p.m, Friday, January 23

The Escher String Quartet are Adam Barnett-Hart, violin, Aaron Boyd, violin, Pierre Lapointe, viola and Dane Johansen, cello.

They performed the String Quartet in D Major, Op. 50, No. 6, by Haydn, the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 and the String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51 by Dvořák for Chamber Music Monterey Bay. That was back in November.

Now we get to hear these great musicians one more time. Tune in! More information at: Chamber Music Monterey Bay and Peninsula Reviews.

Join host Joe Truskot for an evening of British music featuring 15 of John Bull’s fab composers. Boxing Day, by the way, has nothing to do with the sport of punching an opponent into oblivion inside a square bordered by ropes — as if one was going to run away or enter into peace negotiations.

No, no, no. Boxing Day, Dec. 26, is the day after Christmas. As all the servants in a British manor house had to work making sure their employers had a joyous celebration, they got the next day off and also received from the lord and lady a “box” of goodies as a gift. Boxing Day was the day the hired help got something extra.

So let’s celebrate the great music created by many who rightly understood the significance of the day.

Viscount Weymouth’s Hunt: Mr Jackson, the Hon. Henry Villiers and the Hon. Thomas Villiers, with Hunters and Hounds
John Wootton 1733-6

PROGRAM AIRS:

8 p.m., Friday, Nov.28

Joe Truskot presents a special holiday broadcast of The Hunt. It was a popular sport and a popular musical theme. Light-hearted and grand, it connected composers from Bach to Elgar. Performers include Peter Schreier conducting Edith Matthis, Arlene Auger, Theo Adam in Bach’s Hunting Cantata. It’s the one with “Sheep May Safely Graze.” The Amadeus Quartet performs Mozart’s String Quartet in B flat Major, K.458 “The Hunt.” Elgar’s Nimrod Variation from the Enigma Variations. And much more, Tally Ho!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

PROGRAM AIRS: 8 p.m., Friday, November 21

Joe Truskot hosts two hours of music for the concert grand piano including Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major performed by legendary German pianist Ingrid Haebler. The concerto for this program is Saint-Saens Second featuring Dubravka Tomsic and the Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra with Anton Nanut conducting. Spend your evening with quality classical music on KUSP OnSite.

Edward Elgar

PROGRAM AIRS: 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 18

Sir Edward Elgar’s The Music Makers was one of his last orchestral works and with it the famous British composer quotes melodies he created in the past with original compositions. Yes, Nimrod from the Enigma Variations is set to words and sung by contralto Linda Finnie.

8 p.m., Friday, September 5

Robin Carlson Peery, flute and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord perform individual compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach for their unaccompanied instruments and a Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord.

Host Robin Whitehouse returns to complete the program with complimentary music.

Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg

PROGRAM AIRS:

8 p.m., Friday, August 22

Performance from the 2014 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with Marin Alsop leading the orchestra and Nadia Salerno-Sonneberg featured soloist.

Stacy Garrop: Thunderwalker
Clarice Assad: Dreamscapes (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin)
Michael Daugherty: Fallingwater (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin)
Detlev Glanert: Three Songs without Words  [U.S. Premiere]

8 p.m., Friday, August 15

KUSP presents Time for Three in recital at the Cabrillo Festival. This program contains a delightful and virtuosic performance by these three young and energetic musicians featuring a diverse range of genres from classical to blue grass and just plain funk. It’s a delightful evening of terrific music.

Time for Three

Cabrillo’s First Program Airs, 7 p.m., Friday, August 1,

A Live Broadcast of Opening Night from Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium hosted by Robert Pollie and Bonnie Jean Prebsch.

Paul Goodwin, artistic director, Carmel Bach Festival

Marin Alsop, music director, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

PROGRAM AIRS:

8 p.m., Friday, July 25

Artistic director Paul Goodwin leads the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, Chorus, and Soloists in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat in D, a Symphony by C.P.E. Bach, a commissioned work by Caroline Shaw, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. The opening concert took place on Saturday, July 19. The Magnificat, Caroline Shaw’s piece and an additional work of Bach’s are performed without interruption.

The program opens the 2014 Carmel Bach Festival with its unifying theme: Bach and the Italians.