Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in a journey through the compelling extremes of Bruckner’s first symphony, and also Brahms’ Double Concerto with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and her protégé and collaborator cellist Pablo Ferrández.(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 9 pm.
Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach. Enjoy an encore broadcast Mondays at noon.
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Gounod wrote the tale of a a pet dove and true love one year after his masterpiece Faust. Hear it this Sunday (11/24 at 8 pm) on The Lyric Stage.
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Exploring the cadenzas for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 this Friday (11/22, rebroadcast Saturday 11/23)
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We’re staying in Beijing for another production from the National Center for the Performing Arts on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/24 3:00 p.m.). This week, it’s an original commission combining Chinese and Western musical idioms in a story based on a popular folksong from the early 20th Century by composer Zhang Quianyi entitled “Lan Huahua” which follows the unfortunate story of a resilient young woman in feudal China from a bizarrely arranged marriage through to her tragic end. -
Many of us are making our preparations for Thanksgiving, and since the day of family, friends, eating, parades, and football is coming fast upon us, this week’s Dress Circle (11/24 7:00 p.m.) will offer some “turkeys’ for the holiday. Those turkeys are musicals that didn’t run more than ten performances on Broadway, many through no fault of their own.
Madrigals of Monteverdi on What Makes it Great
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: Violinist Rachel Lee Priday.
The Piano Matters - Encore Broadcast Sunday at Noon
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Piano works by Wagner, Saint-Saëns, Stravinksy, Bach and more.
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There have been many daring duos in the world — Now add to that list Bill McGlaughlin and Karrin Allyson! Together and apart, they’ve traveled and performed all over the world, met and worked with many great musicians and love to talk about Music and Life. The B&K Cafe is just that, but now on the radio with you joining the duo over coffee. Join them this Friday at 6 pm.
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