Kirill Petrenko leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, featuring soloist Janine Jansen, and Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 3, "The Divine Poem." (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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Piano performances on period instruments, this Friday (5/15, rebroadcast Saturday 5/16)
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Host Ethan Sperry shares recordings of the Portland State University Chamber Choir, which held its first concert on May 19, 1976, this Sunday (5/17 at 2 pm) on Sounds Choral.
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Everyone needs a little fantasy from time to time, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/17 2026), we’ve got some in the guise of a libretto by Siegfried Wagner for his opera “an allem ist Hutchen Schuld!” (“Everything Is Little-Hat’s Fault!”). This fairytale opera about an invisible, mischievous goblin named “Little-Hat” or “Hattie,” was cobbled together from a number of the stories of The Brothers Grimm with a little Hans Christian Anderson thrown in.
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For a few years after 2020 hit, people became obsessed with once again being able to travel. Now, with the price of oil and gas (and rising prices in general), many have started to bemoan the fact that traveling might not be in the cards once again this year. To help remedy this, we’re looking at songs about traveling on this week’s Dress Circle (5/17 7:00 p.m.) in the hopes we can vicariously ease the angst many are feeling.
Enjoy this encore broadcast of this week's What Makes it Great with host Rob Kapilow.
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: In Memorium - Pianist Michael Harrison (Part 2).
The Piano Matters with David Dubal - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Works by Robert Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Frederic Chopin.
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