Ryan Buchanan
Nicola Benedetti performing a Scottish love ballad, and Martha Argerich playing themes from Romeo and Juliet — those are just two of the treats in our classical broadcast on Valentine's Day.
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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Margo ReedJoin us on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Emanuel Ax in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, on a program that also finds Dalia Stasevska conducting Lutosławski and Ravel. -
Benjamin EalovegaThe Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert presents a program of German Romantic masters. Tugan Sokhiev leads two works by Strauss, the Prelude to Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser, and a Liszt Piano Concerto featuring Haochen Zhang.
The Late Set Podcast
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How do we feel about this year’s Grammy Awards? We'll attempt to answer that question before diving deep into a conversation with bassist Dezron Douglas, conducted onstage before a recent quartet show at Solar Myth. -
Freedom and form have always found active equilibrium in the music of Dave Douglas. His new album, Four Freedoms, considers that balancing act — along with an idea first voiced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and worth revisiting now.
WRTI News Stories
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The star filled his set with hits and familiar images from home, but also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context. -
WRTI will celebrate Opening Day of the Winter Games with a handful of apt musical cues, including the latest from Lang Lang, who graces the Opening Ceremony in Milano. -
With his exceptional fluency on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Ken Peplowski was a prominent voice in straight-ahead jazz. He died on Monday aboard the Jazz Cruise.
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