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American piano music this Friday (7/3, rebroadcast Saturday 7/4)

Celebrate American. Piano Music in all of its glorious diversity, this Friday (6/26, rebroadcast Saturday 6/27)

A Tempo Saturday (4/27) features a conversation with pianist Orli Shaham about her new all-American chamber music recording.

We’re off to the Paris Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (7/5 3:00 p.m.) and a production of one of Handel’s Italian operas “Ariodante” from September of 2025. The source material for “Ariodante” has been used in well over 70 different projects. In the past, we heard one treatment by Giovanni Simone Mayr on the Sunday Opera in his opera “Ginevra di Scozia.” “Ariodante” is a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption, and it explores themes of jealousy, deception, and the triumph of good over evil.

Once again, summer came early with two heatwaves already and a third one looming in the next week. To cool things down a bit, we’re turning to the musicals for songs about “summer” on this week’s Dress Circle (6/28 7:00 p.m.), and we’ve been able to cull together fourteen pieces even though, oddly enough, there aren’t as many songs about summer as you might have thought.

A Tempo Saturday (6/6) features a conversation about the Carnegie Hall initiative that brings songwriting, composition and other musical workshops to men incarcerated in New York's Sing Sing correctional facility.

This broadcast Monday (6/8 at 8 pm) also features the East Coast Premier of Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian’s Hidden Grace, inspired by a trip to Italy.

This week's Sounds Choral Sunday (6/14 at 2 pm) welcomes the Italian composer, keyboardist and conductor Rafael Fusco.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/21 at 2 pm) explores the rare but evocative combinations in the choral music world - works for choir and classical guitar.