The Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra will revisit beloved classics, premiere new commissions and welcome an array of distinguished guest artists in its new season, announced today.

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 as The Philadelphia Orchestra, with guest conductor William Eddins and featured soloist Hilary Hahn, deliver a program of Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson.

For the first time since 2020, The Philadelphia Orchestra presents its beloved MLK Tribute Concert at historic Girard College Chapel. WRTI will broadcast this special concert live, on Monday at 3 p.m.

Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in waltzes by Ravel and Strauss, and rising-star violinist Randall Goosby performs two concertos by composer Florence Price.

In the first WRTI broadcast from the 2022-23 Philadelphia Orchestra season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem for Unity and Dvořák's Symphony No. 8. In between, pianist Daniil Trifonov is featured in Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Celebrate 2023 with WRTI! Join us on Sunday, Jan. 1 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Jan. 2 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in June, 2022.

Join us on Monday, Dec. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 to hear Yannick Nézét-Séguin conduct the Philadelphians in Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 1, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, k 297b. and Anna Clyne's Masquerade.

Here are the albums and experiences representing just a handful of musical moments that stopped WRTI's Classical hosts in their tracks this year.

Join us on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in May. Xian Zhang conducts.