This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Early Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Best of Fresh Air, This American Life, The Linda Belans Show, and The People's Pharmacy. NPR (TM) ALBUM REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 12/29/1997 - 1/4/1998 December 29, 1997: All Things Considered -- Phillip Davis reported on the new type of Mexican music that's infuriating politicians. Groups heard include Molotov (music from Universal Music, Mexico) and Control Machete (Polygram). December 29, 1997: All Things Considered -- A Review by Banning Eyre: "Quanta" by Gilberto Gil (Warner-Brazil Records 92778-2). December 30, 1997: All Things Considered -- A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie and his orchestra recording a song for RCA Records that firmly established Afro-Cuban jazz. December 30, 1997: All Things Considered -- Linda Wertheimer spoke to the performer: "Train Kept-a-Rollin" by Paul Burlison (Sweetfish Records). January 1, 1998: Morning Edition -- Bob Edwards spoke to Charles Wolfe about the career of country music pianist Floyd Cramer. January 4, 1998: Weekend Edition -- Liane Hansen talked to the cellist: "Soul of the Tango" by Yo-Yo Ma, music by Astor Piazzolla (Sony Classical SK 63122). Albums profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: December 31, 1997: Interviews with arranger Billy May and composers Matt Dennis and Sammy Cahn, all of whom worked with Frank Sinatra. January 1, 1998: REVIEW by Rock Critic Ken Tucker: He listed his favorite albums of 1997. Titles not made available. Fresh Air Weekend, January 2-4, 1998: "R + B = Ruth Brown" by Ruth Brown (Bullseye Blues BB CD 9583). COMING UP ON NPR's PERFORMANCE TODAY DECEMBER 29, 1997--JANUARY 4, 1998 Monday, DECEMBER 29 Hour 1-- In PT's recent "My Favorite Beethoven" contest, the work selected by the most contestants was the composer's Ninth Symphony. Today Martin discusses this epic masterpiece, and we'll hear the choral finale of the symphony, a musical setting of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," from the recording Martin adds to his "Basic Ten" list today. This CD features Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with soloists Pilar Lorengar, Yvonne Minton, Stuart Burrows and Martti Talvela. (London 430 438-2) Tuesday, DECEMBER 30 Hour 1-- PT has celebrated the 200th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth during 1997, and today Martin adds one of the composer's most moving chamber works, the String Quintet in C major, to the Basic Ten list. We'll listen to his CD of choice, which features the Emerson String Quartet performing with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. (DG 431 792-2) Wednesday, DECEMBER 31 Hour 2-- In this hour, Martin continues his discussion of the Basic Ten, and focuses on a groundbreaking work by composer Igor Stravinsky: his bold and primitive ballet, "The Rite of Spring." Martin's recommended CD features the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez. (Sony Classical SMK 64109) Thursday, JANUARY 1 Hour 2-- 1998 marks the centennial of the birth of one of America's most beloved and versatile composers, George Gershwin. In today's Basic Ten segment, Martin considers the marriage of "serious" and "popular" music found in one of Gershwin's best-known works, "Rhapsody in Blue." His CD of choice features Leonard Bernstein as both piano soloist and conductor of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. (Sony Classical SMK 47529) Saturday, JANUARY 3 Hour 1-- "Heaven and Hell" is the title of a CD featuring popular music writer Joe Jackson and "friends"--including soprano Dawn Upshaw and violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg--performing musical interpretations of the Seven Deadly Sins. Jackson joins guest host Melinda Whiting at the keyboard to discuss this release and his foray into the world of classical composing. (Sony Classical SK 60273) Hour 2-- The PT Basic Ten series continues in this hour as Martin discusses one of Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky's greatest works: his passionately autobiographical Symphony No. 6, the "Pathetique." And, from a historic Moscow performance in 1990, the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, performs the Symphony's despairing finale. (Sony Classical SK 45836) Sunday, JANUARY 4 Hour 1-- Martin concludes his series of Basic Ten essays with a discussion of Aaron Copland's brilliant ballet, "Appalachian Spring." And, from his recommended recording, we'll hear the work, featuring Copland conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (RCA 6802-2-RG) Hour 2-- Critic Ted Libbey joins Martin for another trip to the PT Basic Library, where Ted adds recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 38, the "Prague," to the library collection. Album Lists are now available on the internet (http://sunsite.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/music/album-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1998 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (compiler). All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted by the copyright holder to distribute this file electronically or otherwise in full as long as attribution is made.