Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Philharmonic in Schubert's Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished, Strauss' Death and Transfiguration, and the U.S. premiere of Kaija Saariaho's work 'HUSH'. (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 (this week at 9 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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Works by Brahms, Zaimont, Ravel, Debussy, Cage, Glass and others this Friday (12/5, rebroadcast Saturday 12/6)
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We’re heading to the Vienna State Opera for Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/7 3:00 p.m.) for a story awakening love and sight gained that takes place in the 15th century in the mountains of southern France. -
The end is nigh! Well, the end of the year, that is. Welcome to December, and to kick off the month of wishes and gifts, we’re going to be looking at a dozen musicals that opened in New York this month on this week’s Dress Circle (12/7 7:00 p.m.). We’ll be looking at 125 years of musical history, from Victor Herbert’s “The Ameer” in 1899 through to the 2024 revival of “Gypsy” that starred Audra McDonald and Danny Burstein.
Members of Philadelphia-based Dolce Suono Ensemble perform arrangements of works by Bach, Mozart, Piazzolla and the 20th-century Serbian composer Marco Tajcevic.
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: Pianist Jonathan Biss.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Music by a mix of well-known and lesser-heard composers, including Karol Szymanowski, César Franck and Joseph Martin Kraus.
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