Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an all-Mahler program featuring "Blumine", the discarded movement from his first symphony. We'll also hear the only movement written for his Symphony No. 10, and selections from the song cycle "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", with mezzo-soprano, Ekaterina Gubanova; and baritone Simon Keenlyside. (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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Celebrating Beethoven’s birthday this Friday (12/12, rebroadcast Saturday 12/13)
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A survey of the French composer's choral output on Sounds Choral this Sunday (12/14 at 2 pm).
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Our final production from the Vienna State Opera is the feature on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/14 3:00 p.m.) as we turn to Richard Strauss’ gentle comedy, “Arabella.” The opera is set in Vienna in the 1860s even though it didn’t premiere until 1933.It centers on the Waldner family who are facing bankruptcy because of the father’s (Wolfgang Bankl) gambling. The mother’s (Margaret Plummer) only hope is that one of their daughters, Arabella (Camilla Nylund), will marry a wealthy man.
Enjoy this encore broadcast of this week's What Makes it Great with host Rob Kapilow.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Works by Schubert, Scriabin and Joplin, as well as by lesser known composers Emil von Sauer and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.
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.
Catch up on The Classical Network's exclusive specialty programs at any time on our Webcasts page.
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