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The three-hour concert broadcast Monday (8/10 at 8 pm) features the saxophone quartet performing from its project exploring music banned by the Nazis - works by Jewish composers and American jazz.
Seiji Ozawa served as the first music director of the Ravinia Festival from 1964 until 1968 and as principal conductor for the 1969 season. During his tenure, he recorded a number of works for RCA and Angel, including works by Beethoven, Borodin, Schoenberg and Bartók, which are featured on this week's broadcast.
The Philharmonic performs Leilehua Lanzilotti's world premiere of 'of light and stone', as well as Bartók's third piano concerto and Ives' second symphony.
From the BBC Proms! Sueye Park makes her Proms debut, joining John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. Also on the program, Betsy Jolas’ Tales of a Summer Sea, and Strauss’ Nietzsche-inspired tone-poem, Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Michael Barone hosts this program featuring music from the diverse repertoire for the organ.
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.
These monthly concerts by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Bach Festival Orchestra and select soloists air live at noon on the 2nd Tuesday of each month with a repeat Fridays at 6 pm. This month's concert includes beloved vocal works by Bach and Schütz in a landmark collaboration with the Triad Emerging Artist Residency, bringing together ten of the region’s most promising young professional singers alongside the Bach Choir’s distinguished ensemble.
Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "Musical Dynasties" - Musical families, including Gabrieli, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Strauss (the Johanns and Richard), and ending with the Haydns: Joseph and Michael.
The Piano Matters - Wednesdays at 3 PM and Sundays at noon.
Between the Keys - Fridays at 3 PM and Saturdays at 6 PM.
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Recent piano releases, this Friday (8/7, rebroadcast Saturday 8/8)
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.
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