Paavo Järvi leads the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra in works by George Enescu, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninoff at the 2025 George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest, featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein. (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: A Little Romance 2 - Music of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss Jr.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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The second of three programs surveying all of Liszt’s Piano Etudes, this Friday (4/10, rebroadcast Saturday 4/11)
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A Tempo Saturday (4/11 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Cincinnati Pops conductor John Morris Russell about its latest recording exploring the music of the Harlem Renaissance and its influence. -
This week’s Sunday Opera (4/12 3:00 p.m.) is turning to the work of a mostly forgotten Czech composer, Pavel Haas through his only opera, written in 1936, “Sarlatan,” “The Charlatan.” -
Who knew that there was a day set aside for the celebration of 8-Track tapes? It’s on April 11, but this week’s Dress Circle (4/12 7:00 p.m.) is dedicated to it since we couldn't let it pass. We need something to celebrate, and it's just so wonderfully strange.
Concordia Chamber Players perform Missy Mazzoli's Lies You Can Believe In and sextet arrangements of the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the Capriccio Sextet from Richard Strauss' opera of the same name, and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.
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: Countertenor Randall Scotting.
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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