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Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the symphony in a world premiere on this broadcast Friday (5/1 at 8 pm), which also includes music from Stravinsky's Pulcinella and a concerto for two oboes.
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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Honoring the memories of Michael Tilson-Thomas, Ruth Slenczynska, Michael Harrison and Andrew Thomas, this Friday (5/1, rebroadcast Saturday 5/2)
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Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/3 at 2 pm) spotlights two American works from the 1960s.
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We’re going for Baroque again on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/3 3:00 p.m.) with a forgotten opera that is finally getting some much deserved recognition: Leonard Vinci’s “Artaserse,” an opera that premiered in Rome in 1730. -
Each month has an animal associated with it, and May is associated with the squirrel. Who knew? Well, this week’s Dress Circle (5/3 7:00 p.m.) is definitely not squirrelly in any stretch of the imagination as we look at overtures and opening numbers from 11 of the musicals that opened this month.
The Philadelphia-based Renaissance ensemble leads us through the huge menagerie of instruments on which its members perform.
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: Composer and conductor Daníel Bjarnason.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Music by Anton Rubinstein, Renaldo Hahn, Debussy and Emil von Sauer, plus Vladimir Horowitz in Liszt's transcription of Wagner's Leibestod.
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