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Join us on Sunday, September 19th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 20th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a 2017 Philadelphia Orchestra concert conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It brings us works by two composers born almost 150 years apart, whose music expresses profound religious faith.
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History has painted composer Anton Bruckner as a simple man who gave the world complex and innovative symphonies. Bruckner’s 8th symphony, which premiered in December of 1892, is a spiritual masterpiece.
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Back in January, 2016, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra launched a three-week Music of Vienna series, and one of those concerts—both…
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The symphony, as we know it today, underwent major changes from the end of the 18th to the late 19th century. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, two…
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Need to brush up on your Bruckner? Or discover his symphonies for the first time? Let conductor Daniel Barenboim guide you through all nine symphonies in this audio primer.
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Vienna was a hotbed of musical evolution, and the second concert in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s three-part series of the Music of Vienna shows us how far…
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The Philadelphia Orchestra opens its 2016 Asia tour in Hong Kong with a pair of live WRTI broadcasts on May 19th and 20th with repertoire that includes,…
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Join us this Sunday as Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in a recorded program from late January, 2013 at Verizon Hall that…
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This Sunday at 1 pm on The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI - Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin takes to the podium to conduct a symphony by…
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This Sunday at 1 pm on WRTI, it's a performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 by The Philadelphia Orchestra. The work, and the composer, are very…