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Join us on Sunday, May 18 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 19 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a Baroque and Classical program from the 2024/2025 season, featuring works by Bach, Handel and Haydn. Masaaki Suzuki is on harpsichord and at the podium, and soprano Jone Martínez makes her Orchestra debut.
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This week's Fanfare brings us three outstanding string ensembles, a star pianist, and a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird between it all.
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Join us for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, on Sunday, June 1 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 2 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2. Music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads performances from 2013 – in his first season at the Orchestra’s helm – as well as 2018 and 2019. Featured works include Janáček’s Sinfonietta, Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, and the Serenade for Winds by Richard Strauss.
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Mozart played both violin and viola, and wrote his Sinfonia Concertante for those two instruments in 1779 after a trip to Paris and Mannheim, where the form was popular.
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Join us on Sunday, Dec. 12th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 13th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, when Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphians in an all-Mozart concert from 2019, with soloists from the ranks of The Philadelphia Orchestra, First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang, and Principal Viola C.J. Chang.
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Philadelphia Orchestra First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang is soloist in a performance of Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, as WRTI’s Philadelphia…
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Let’s get one thing out of the way first, in case there is any doubt: “Women Composers” is not a genre. Neither is “music by women,” as a category,…
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On Sunday, February 8th, The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast features Amsterdam-born conductor Jaap van Zweden, music director of both the…
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The strings are the largest section of a symphony orchestra, and communicating among them to create a unified sound involves the conductor, the…
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On Sunday, January 18th at 1 pm, the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings us the music of Respighi, Stravinsky, and Brahms, conducted by the brilliant…