From Radio France Broadcasting House, Cristian Măcelaru leads the Orchestra National de France in Ravel's La Valse, an orchestral arrangement of Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor, and Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder. (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.
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: Spring Has Arrived! - Music of Vivaldi.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Works for violin and piano this Friday (4/24, rebroadcast Saturday 4/25)
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Beethoven is probably the best known composer of one-and-done when it comes to operas. However, there were others, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/26 3:00 p.m.), we’re focusing on one of those: Robert Schumann’s 1850 work “Genoveva" based loosely on an event in the life of Genevieve de Brabant. -
Like all months, April is a month of many celebrations. We’ve already looked at shows that opened in 1965 in order to celebrate National 8-Track Tape Day – We are fully committed to our calendar art, and on this week’s Dress Circle (4/26 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at something we think everyone needs right now: Songs of hope from the musicals as April is the National Month of Hope.
The opening concert of this year's Cutting Edge Concerts series features music by Cuban/Cuban-American composers and women composers. (Please note the special start time of 1 pm)
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 Laura Schwendinger.
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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Settle in with your own beverage and tune into the B&K Cafe with Bill McGlaughlin and Karrin Allyson for an hour of delightful music and conversation.
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