XM Satellite Radio – VOX

Big Ticket Friday
(noon eastern, repeats Saturday at 6 pm)
Medieval Hungary and the attempt to ward off German oppression (and one of the earliest request ever on VOX!), Ferenc Erkel’s Bank Ban; plus   Emil von Reznicek’s take on the Bluebeard story, Ritter Blaubart;  and more of those grand old Decca operetta boxes from the 1940s remastered recently on CD–the Romberg/Hammerstein collaborations The Desert Song & The New Moon.

Saturday Special
(noon Saturday and Wednesday, 6 pm eastern Tuesday):
Renee Fleming, Part 4
We have spent some hours with this lovely lady over the last months, and will celebrate her artistry and hear her own observations on her craft for the weeks to come.  Handel’s Alcina, her remarkable recording of Handel arias, and her great album Bel Canto.