The Philadelphia Orchestra

Join us on Sunday, May 10th at 1 PM and Monday, May 11th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert broadcast brings to the Verizon…

Repulsed by the brutality against women in the story A Thousand and One Nights, composer John Adams created a dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra…

Praised as an artist of "rare talent"(Gramophone) whose playing is "dazzling' (The Washington Post), Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang visited the WRTI 90.1…

We mourn the loss of Philadelphia percussion legend, Alan Abel, who was a guru to generations of percussionists. He died on April 25, 2020 from…

Beethoven, Mozart, and Brahms are all composers dear to the German-born conductor David Afkham, and he makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut directing…

It’s an all-Russian program with Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff with the brilliant young pianist Beatrice Rana. Listen to a re-broadcast of this…

What began as Sir Edward Elgar's playful improvisation on the piano, led to international acclaim for one of his most beloved and mysterious works. After…

Music was her family business, but conducting became her very own dream job. Now known worldwide, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla turned to conducting when she was…

Mahler ends his Fourth Symphony with a song about child’s vision of heaven. Its messages about joy and music fuel the passion of one of today’s rising…

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts one of the supreme monuments in Western music, and the work that initiated the great rediscovery of Bach’s music when the…