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Petr Popelka leads the Vienna Symphony in its 125th Anniversary celebration with pianist Anna Vinnitskaya in Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D and soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller in Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs. (Part of the WFMT 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 8 pm.
Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach. Tune in Fridays at 10 pm and Mondays at noon.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Celebrate American. Piano Music in all of its glorious diversity, this Friday (6/26, rebroadcast Saturday 6/27)
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Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/28 at 2 pm) features an interview with British conductor Suzi Digby about her ensemble's latest release. -
Milan’s La Scala is our destination for this week’s Sunday Opera (6/28 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” a 1934 opera based on the 1865 novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District: by Nikolai Leskov with a libretto by the composer and Alexander Preis. -
Once again, summer came early with two heatwaves already and a third one looming in the next week. To cool things down a bit, we’re turning to the musicals for songs about “summer” on this week’s Dress Circle (6/28 7:00 p.m.), and we’ve been able to cull together fourteen pieces even though, oddly enough, there aren’t as many songs about summer as you might have thought.
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: Simply Sibelius.
The Allentown Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concert presidents new American works in 'America 250!'
The Piano Matters with David Dubal - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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