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The votes are in, and we've got this year's list! Join us, starting on Friday at noon, for our annual Labor Day Weekend Classical Countdown! It's your 30…

Tune in on Sundays in November from 4 to 6 p.m. to hear the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra in concerts recorded live at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall. Enjoy performances by some of the most talented young musicians in our region conducted by PYO Music Director Louis Scaglione.

Join us on Feb. 1 from 3-6 p.m. for Sunday Classical: New Releases as we listen to Nobuyuku Tsujii's interpretation of The Nutcracker, Ensemble Ouranos' take on Samuel Barber, and the the world premiere recording of the earliest complete opera by a Black American composer.

A pianist and composer who brought harmonic depth and rhythmic daring to the rangy post-1960s jazz mainstream, Richie Beirach died on Jan. 26 in Southwest Germany. He was 78.

Twenty years ago, Nicole Sweeney was a student intern handling the overnight shift at WRTI. She's back, this time as the new host of Evening Jazz.

Pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Benjamin Grosvenor, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer and orchestras such as the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony are among the highlighted releases in our July 2025 edition of Sunday Classical: New Releases. Join host Mark Pinto on WRTI on July 6 from 3-6 p.m. to hear highlights from each of these albums, and read his thoughts here.

The 24-year-old violinist Randall Goosby’s major label debut, Roots, is unique in several ways.

February 15, 2021. As a first-generation American and the daughter of a Rwandan father and Ugandan mother, who was raised mostly in Champaign, Illinois…

A pianist for Miles Davis and Frank Zappa, Duke plays "My Funny Valentine" with Marian McPartland.

Check out a duo riffing on the Goldberg Variations in a very cool way: beatboxing and piano.