Barbara Hannigan's much-anticipated Severance Hall conducting debut features a fascinating juxtaposition of works by Haydn, Ligeti – marking the centenary of the composer’s birth – and Vivier, as well as Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration. (Part of the WFMT World Orchestra Series)
Enjoy great music programming all weekend long: From the Top Saturdays at noon, Classical Guitar Alive Saturdays at 5 pm, With Heart and Voice Sundays at 1 pm, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Sundays at the new time of 8 pm.
Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach. Enjoy an encore broadcast Mondays at noon.
Hear an encore of this month's Bach at Noon from the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, this Friday at 6 pm.
The Gateways Music Festival has played a key role in helping change the field of classical music into one that fully embraces the diversity of both orchestral music and musicians since 1993. This week's program showcases music born out of the adversity and turmoil associated with Black American history, and the myriad of harmonies that struggle helped produce. The featured works are by Florence Price, Jonathan McNair, Duke Ellington, and Margaret Bonds.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Music deserving wider recognition, this Friday (6/13, rebroadcast Saturday 6/14)
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We’re turning to another opera that’s been forgotten although it was quite popular when it premiered in 1920 on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/15 3:00 p.m.), and as a bonus, it’s written in the Basque idiom. It’s Spanish composer Jesus Guridi’s “Amaya.” Guridi (1886 – 1961) played an important role as a Spanish / Basque composer who wrote operas and zarzuelas as well as orchestral, piano, choral, and organ works. -
We decided to get everyone prepared for summer on this week’s Dress Circle (6/15 7:00 p.m.), since it officially begins on June 20th. To do this, we’ve turned to “summer songs” from thirteen diverse musicals.
Join George Marriner Maull, Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra, for a delightful exploration into the musical details of a new selection on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month at 7:30 pm. This week: Suddenly, Sibelius.
Songs from Fang Man's "Earth" and more with Dolce Suono Ensemble.
Enjoy conversations with and performances by classical musicians of local, national and international fame Thursdays at 3 pm and Saturdays at 4 pm on Cadenza - winner of the 2014 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. This week: Pianist Gloria Cheng.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Schumann's Toccata, Prophet Bird and Etude Variations, plus works by Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.
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