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Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in Gustav Mahler’s monumental Sixth Symphony.
- 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
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: May 29, 2024
- Length: :00
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
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
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
Performances of music by Sergei Taneyev.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:57:00
This week's show presents music which was written for or performed at various kinds of ceremonies: weddings, funerals, christenings, and coronation...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Riccardo Muti conducts three of Beethoven’s works, beginning with his Coriolan Overture and followed by his eighth and fifth symphonies. Plus, the ...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
Martin Helmchen is the soloist in Dvořák's piano concerto in G minor on a concert that also features the same composer’s Symphony No. 9, "From the ...
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 01:58:30
In this week's episode we hear three works by Bach, including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049.
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:30
This week's Baroque extravaganza includes some recent releases: Plucked Bach II with mandolinist Alon Sariel, Vivaldi played by violinist Théotime ...
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Various performances of composer Nikolai Kapustin's pieces. Program 2 of 2.
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 01:58:00