Nathalie Stutzmann

This week's Fanfare brings delightful performances at both the front and back end of the week, including from Kronos Quartet, Zoltán Fejérvári and more.

Join us on Sunday, December 29 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, December 30 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when tThe Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a program of Mozart and Schumann from the 2023/2024 season.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, featuring pianist Haochen Zhang, and his Symphony No. 7 in A Major, with guest conductor Nathalie Stutzmann.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert features an all-Brahms program from the 2022-23 season, featuring the Symphony No. 1 in C minor, and Gil Shaham performing the Violin Concerto in D major.

A new production of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni,' directed by Ivo van Hove and conducted by Nathalie Stuzmann, has earned acclaim. WRTI's own Mike Bolton explores the opera's themes, and its complex moral web.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert finds clarinetist Ricardo Morales and violist Choong-Jin Chang shining in a Max Bruch Concerto, alongside Dvořák’s beloved Symphony No. 9.

In a program spanning Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, and selections from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, the common denominator is love.

Join us on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you an encore presentation from 2022 of works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts.

Join us on Monday, April 1 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert. Former Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann is on the podium and celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax returns to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major.

Two new recordings — the Dover Quartet's 'Beethoven Complete String Quartets Volume 3: The Late Quartets' and Haochen Zhang's 'Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos' with Nathalie Stutzmann and The Philadelphia Orchestra — demonstrate the risks and rewards for interpreters of the great composer's oeuvre.