Hear Carl Nielsen’s sun-drenched Helios Overture, the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto with Yuja Wang, and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra in this performance by the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen. (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 9 pm.
Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach. Enjoy an encore broadcast Mondays at noon.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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John McGuire's wonderfully unique 48 Variations for Two Pianos.
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This week's opera comes from London's Royal Opera House and features the first opera in Wagner's "Ring Cycle," "Das Rheingold" featuring Christopher Purves as Alberich and Christopher Maltman as Wotan. The opera, performed in one 150 minute act, will be followed by more music featuring "northern" heroes (and an anti-hero) from Uumo Kalmi, Jean Sibelius, and Edvard Grieg,. -
Dorothy Fields came from a fantastic showbusiness family, and her career as a musical lyricist and book-writer lasted nearly five decades. We're going to celebrate her talents on this program with songs from fourteen of her shows, many of which feature standards from the over 400 songs she co-wrote,. -
Zinka Milanov and Jussi Bojerling team up for Act Two of Il Trovatore with Feadora Barberi and Leonard Warren. Milanov and Bjoerling will also sing the love duet from Tosca this Sunday July 28 at 8 PM.
Join George Marriner Maull, Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra, for a delightful exploration into the musical details of a new selection on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month at 7:30 pm. This week: The World of Unison - Music of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Copland and others.
Enjoy a rebroadcast of this performance from the Raritan River Music Festival, featuring the Manhattan Chamber Players.
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: Cally Banham.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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An hour of piano music featuring works including Schumann's Träumerei, Saint-Saëns' The Swan, and a Mazurka and Tarantella by Chopin.
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