This week, we kick off a new season of Los Angeles Philharmonic radio broadcasts - Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, and we hear Brahms' second symphony. (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 (this week at 9 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.
Hear an encore of this month's Bach at Noon from the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, this Friday at 6 pm.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Pianist Steven Spooner in music and conversation this Friday (11/14, rebroadcast Saturday 11/15).
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We’re off to the Bayreuth Festival on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/16 3:00 p.m.) for the first of three works by Wagner: “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" which is about a 16th-century singing contest in Nuremberg where young knight Walther von Stolzing (Michael Spyres) hopes to win the hand of Eva Pogner (Christina Nilsson). -
BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THIS WEEK’S SUNDAY OPERA, THE DRESS CIRCLE WILL BEGIN ONE HOUR LATER THAN USUAL AT 8:00 P.M. (ET). As promised, we’re back with more Literary Based Musicals on this week’s Dress Circle (11/16 8:00 p.m.), Once again, we’ve focused on four novels as source material realized in fourteen songs from six different recordings.
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: Saxophonist Daniel Schnyder.
Maestro Joseph Young leads the symphony in works by Elgar and Montgomery, as well as Schumann's Cello Concerto.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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