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Bill & Karrin try to take a bit of the chill out of the air with music celebrating this Season

The Philadelphia-based Baroque Orchestra's smaller ensemble takes the stage on this broadcast Monday (1/20)

A Tempo this Saturday (1/25 at 2 pm) features a conversation with cast and creative team members of Opera Philadelphia's upcoming production of the opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, about the opera, its composer and reclaiming their place in musical history.

We’re turning to another often-overlooked composer on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/2 3:00 p.m.). It’s Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and the only verismo opera he wrote in his catalogue of approximately fifteen: “I gioielli della Madonna” (“The Jewels of the Madonna”). It caused quite a stir after it premiered in 1911 (in Berlin as “Der Schmuck der Madonna”) because of its themes implying criticism of the Catholic Church and love between a brother and his adopted sister.

A Tempo this Saturday (2/1 at 7 pm) features conversations about the world premiere of an opera by the 19th-century New Orleans-born Black composer Edmond Dédé, and McCarter Theatre's production of Here There are Blueberries, which examines choices and complicity during the Holocaust.

It’s an afternoon of some “interesting” relationships on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/1 3:00 p.m.) with Ivar Hallstrom’s “Duke Magnus and the Mermaid” and Louis Spohr’s treatment of “Beauty and the Beast” (“Azore et Zamire”).

Schumann's Toccata, Prophet Bird and Etude Variations, plus works by Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.

Music of Franz Liszt, This Friday (5/30, rebroadcast Saturday 5/31)

Although Giacomo Meyerbeer was one of the most celebrated composers during his lifetime and wrote some sixteen operas, many of his works often go overlooked. We’re going to remedy that, a bit, on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/25 3:00 p.m.) with a recording of his last work, “L’Africaine” or “Vasco da Gama” in its edited final version.

Comparative performances of a Liszt Transcendental Etude, as well as works by Lecuona, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. (With an encore broadcast Sunday 5/11).