From the 2025 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Alan Gilbert leads the NDR Elbphilharmonie in works by Anna Clyne, Max Bruch, and Johannes Brahms, featuring violinist María Dueñas in Bruch's Violin Concerto. (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.
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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The last of three programs surveying all of Liszt’s Piano Etudes, this Friday (4/17, rebroadcast Saturday 4/18)
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Franz Schreker was another composer whose work was censured because of the rise in anti-Semitism in Germany in the early 1930’s, and he went from being hailed as the future of German opera to obscurity. We’ll celebrate the music of Schreker which is said to be a lush mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, and Expressionism on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/19 3:00 p.m.).
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So many stage musicals were destroyed by Hollywood when they were adapted into films. Often, entire scores were thrown out, and other times, two or three songs, and on this week’s Dress Circle (4/19 7:00 p.m.), we’ve put together a program of some of the songs that never made it Hollywood with the rest of the show.
Pianist Emmanuel Ax Performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Diane Wittry.
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: Conductor Donald Runnicles.
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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