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Early-music ensemble Sonnambula visited WRTI to perform the music of Jewish converso Leonora Duarte. Praised as “remarkable” and “superb” by The New Yorker, Sonnambula's June, 2019 release of Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): The Complete Works, marks not only the ensemble's debut recording, but the first complete recording of Duarte’s surviving music.

Join us on Sunday, June 5th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 6th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a fabulous concert broadcast from the Orchestra’s 2021/2022 season, recorded live in October, featuring the Orchestra’s newest principal player, oboist Philippe Tondre, in his public solo debut.

Keith Jarrett's two strokes in 2018 left the pianist unable to perform publicly. On the occasion of Bordeaux Concert, WBGO's Nate Chinen caught up with Jarrett.

May 17, 2021. Pianist Yoko Miwa moved from Kobe, Japan to Boston in 1997 almost on a lark. She planned to study maybe a year at Berklee College of Music,…

Known primarily for his southern-flavored operas, Floyd helped create an American opera vernacular. His 1955 hit Susannah won the New York Music Critics Circle Award and helped launch his career.

In the 1960s, European musicians began to reinvent the occasionally strident sounds of American avant-garde jazz to suit their own ideas. Norway, in particular, produced its own distinct regional aesthetic — no doubt influenced by its icy landscape.

In this Fall Preview edition of Fanfare, WRTI's Classical Program Director, Zev Kane, shares the classical events he's looking forward to most in the coming season.

Ross was recognized as a natural performer from an early age. She essentially never stopped.

In a career spanning nearly 50 years, the German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau brought art song into people's homes through hundreds of recordings. WRTI's Meg Bragle picks a handful of standouts in this centennial tribute.

A set of performances from Piffaro highlighting the rather unique instruments of the Renaissance era, a special visit from classical comedy duo TwoSet Violin and a choral commemoration of the Declaration of Independence's signing — all this and more in this week's Fanfare.