Leonard Rose, Principal Cello of the Philharmonic from 1943 to 1951, performs Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The program also features Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 and works by Kodály and Dvořák.
This performance by the Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra includes Mykola Lysenko's Overture to Taras Bulba, Jonathan Cziner's North Long Lake, MN, Mel Bonis' Femmes de légende, II. Salomé, and works by Berlioz and Dukes. Christian Reif conducts.
Pianist Julius Asal leads the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields from both sides of the podium in this concert featuring Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 and Symphony No. 31, and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and Tombeau de Couperin. (Part of the WFMT Orchestra Series)
Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "Strangers in a Strange Land" - The musical evolution of five mature composers as they started their new lives in America: Russian Igor Stravinsky, Hungarian Bela Bartok, German Kurt Weill, Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Austrian Ernst Toch.
The Piano Matters - Wednesdays at 3 PM and Sundays at noon
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Comparative performances of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Finale; Schubert's Sonata in B-Flat, Scherzo; and "March - Song of the Lark" from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons.
Between the Keys - Fridays at 3 PM and Saturdays at 6 PM
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A celebration of Martha Argerich this Friday (6/5, rebroadcast Saturday 6/6)
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 Eric Chasalow.
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.
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