Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero brings out all the Technicolor glory of Ottorino Respighi’s vivid Roman postcards, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome. The program also includes Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka and Kaija Saariaho’s astronomical Asteroid 4179: Toutatis. (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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Seldom heard piano concertos, this Friday (8/28, rebroadcast Saturday 8/29)
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The age-old story of boy gets girl, boy loses girl, and boy poisons girl is featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/30 3:00 p.m.) in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” in a production from the Vienna State Opera. -
Many of us grew up with the soothing songs of Burt Bacharach who has been called “The King of Easy Listening.” At the time of his passing in 2023, he had amassed 73 Top 40 hits in the U.S. and 52 in the United Kingdom. His songs also appeared in eight productions on Broadway as well as in 772 film and television soundtracks, and on this week’s Dress Circle (8/30 7:00 p.m.) we’re going to sample just a few of them.
Enjoy this encore broadcast of this week's What Makes it Great with host Rob Kapilow, featuring pianist Orli Shaham.
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: The ensemble Brass for Uncommon Times
The Piano Matters with David Dubal - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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