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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting various performances with the Minneapolis Symphony and New York Philharmonic. Program 2 of 3.
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 01:57:30
Conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads the San Francisco Symphony in Dmitri Shostakovich’s madcap First Symphony and Wynton Marsalis’ celebration of Bla...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
This week, host Sara Schneider explores two recent releases: music by Spanish composer Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) performed by The Brabant Ense...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Uruguayan guitarist, teacher, and composer Abel Carlevaro is known as the founder of his own school of guitar technique. He was also a master compo...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: :00
Classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries has had a strong presence throughout Latin America and the world. On this program, we will share in...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in Gustav Mahler’s monumental Sixth Symphony.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Andrew Davis leads the Philharmonic in a charming pair of French works in this concert from the 2009-10 season. We open with the overture to Les fr...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Today's show presents a mix of music from medieval France, including 12th-century chant and polyphony performed by Lionheart, love songs featuring ...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting various performances with the Minneapolis Symphony and New York Philharmonic. Program 1 of 3.
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 01:57:30
The prestigious Kronos Quartet has dedicated many recordings to the music of Latin America. Host Elbio Barilari will share some of his favorite rec...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 58:31
In this week's episode we hear chamber works by Schubert, both vocal and instrumental. These selections demonstrate Schubert's uncanny ability to m...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:30
A powerhouse of Latin American classical music, Argentina boasts some of the most skilled composers of the 20th century. We’ll hear gorgeous and me...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:30
At the premiere of Cimarosa's "The Secret Marriage," the Austrian emperor demanded a repeat of the nearly three-hour opera, possibly the longest en...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 01:58:31
Spellbinding pianist Yuja Wang returns to the San Francisco Symphony to take on Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. Music Director Esa-Pekka Salon...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 01:58:29
Aaron Copland leads the orchestra in an abridged version of his opera The Tender Land, recorded in 1965. Also featured are two jazz-inspired works:...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera-ballet Les Fêtes de Polymnie was composed to celebrate a French military victory in 1745. We'll hear Tempesta di Mare ...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 58:30
A collection of some of Henry Fogel's favorite operatic recordings.
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:58:00
Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony for Bela Bartók’s zany Second Piano Concerto, in a prog...
- Added: May 17, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Opening this program led by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Conor Hanick premieres a San Francisco Symphony commission by Samuel Adams. T...
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Soloist Kirill Gerstein and an ensemble of all-star festival musicians in a rare and spectacular performance of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto. Plu...
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This concert from Alan Gilbert's inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic features his good friend Frank Peter Zimmermann as...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
One of the founders of “new tango,” Astor Piazzolla was trained as a classical composer. He studied with Alberto Ginastera and Nadia Boulanger amon...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In this week's episode we hear Webern's Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello and the Sextet No. 2 in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In this week's episode we hear two fabulous chamber works by Mozart. First we hear his trio in E-flat major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498,...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony was among the few triumphs of the misunderstood composer's lifetime. Christian Thielemann conducts this fervent an...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
