Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Join us on Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

This week's Fanfare brings a whopping eight events to the table, including a performance from Yuja Wang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a concert with Michelle Cann & Imani Winds, two operas in Don Giovanni and L'Amico Fritz and more.

Join us on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a complete concert performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023/2024 season, with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a quartet of stellar soloists.

Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major and a moving new work by Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters, performed by baritone Joshua Hopkins with a libretto by Margaret Atwood. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the program.

Fanfare this week features an iconic hammer, a few authoritative dives into early music, and Curtis Opera Theatre's production of Candide.

This week's Fanfare brings us three outstanding string ensembles, a star pianist, and a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird between it all.

Join us on Sunday, March 16 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a single work: Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and three local choirs: the Philadelphia Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs, and the women of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir.

Join us on Sunday, March 9 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Seong-Jin Cho, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 — the first in a fresh series of performances from the 2024-25 season.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert's "From the Vault" series concludes with performances of Stravinsky's complete ballet The Firebird, Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 3 and more. Tune in on Sunday, March 2 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 3 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2.

Join us for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, on Sunday, June 15 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 16 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2. Music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads performances from past seasons, including Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Haydn’s Symphony No. 92, a witty tone poem by Peter Maxwell Davies, and the premiere performance of a Flute Concerto by Iranian-American composer Behzad Ranjbaran, featuring principal flute Jeffrey Khaner.