Upcoming and Noteworthy

The second of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (10/3 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 10/4 at 6 pm).

It’s an afternoon of the music of Gabriel Faure on this week’s Sunday Opera (10/5 3:00 p.m.) as we return to the Bavarian State Opera for “Penelope” and follow that with three of his instrumental works to round out the afternoon.

We’re spanning 131 years of musical history on this week’s Dress Circle (10/5 7:00 p.m.) as we look at a dozen shows that opened in New York this month from a long forgotten 1894 musical to two revivals opening this year.

The first of seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (9/26 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 9/27 at 6 pm).

A traditional opera double bill from the Bavarian State Opera is on tap for this week’s “Sunday Opera” (9/28 3:00 p.m.) featuring tragic tales of domestic strife in Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.”

When George Gershwin died just a few weeks short of his 39th birthday, his brother and writing partner, Ira, was devastated and withdrew from public life and writing. It took Kurt Weill, Moss Hart, and a musical about psychoanalysis to get Ira writing again, and on this week’s Dress Circle (9/28 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at some of the works that Ira penned after George.

The fifth in a series of programs devoted to pianists deserving wider attention, this Friday (9/19, rebroadcast Saturday 9/20)

We’re off to Denmark for an opera “double bill” on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/21 3:00 p.m.) with two rather diverse works: Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.”

We’re revisiting a theme we presented over a decade ago on this week’s Dress Circle (9/21 7:00 p.m.) mainly because there are many new sources from which we can choose.That theme is International Disney, and we’re looking at sixteen selections from a variety of Disney films in fourteen different languages.

A wide and diverse range of music this Friday (9/12 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 9/13 at 6 pm)