Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Join us on Sunday, May 10 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 11 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program from the 2025/2026 season featuring Sibelius' Fifth Symphony, an orchestral suite from Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up In My Bones, and Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, with violinist María Dueñas.

Join us on Sunday, May 3 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM and Monday, May 4 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Brahms' Third Symphony and a restored suite by William Grant Still, plus a Beethoven concerto with pianist Emanuel Ax, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his debut with the Orchestra.

Join us on Sunday, April 26 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra performing Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, and the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist.

This week's Fanfare promises a number of performances all across the city— and beyond!

Tune in on April 5 and 6 for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert to hear a complete concert performance of Handel's Messiah

Join us on Sunday, June 21 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 22 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation: Part One of The Philadelphia Orchestra at 125, which celebrates a milestone, examining the evolution of “the Philadelphia Sound” and the conductors who have nurtured it.

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Tune in to WRTI on Thursday, Jan. 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, to hear the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert, the first time under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

This week's Fanfare features the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with violinist Veronika Eberle, the Lorelei Ensemble, the Julliard String Quartet with pianist Marc-André Hamelin and more.

Join us on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for the final concert of the 2024-25 season, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads works by Mozart, St-Georges and Prokofiev — along with Shostakovich's first Cello Concerto, featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason.