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Classical Weekdays

Monday through Friday, 6 am to 6 pm

Gregg Whiteside, Jack Moore and Jill Pasternak

WRTI brings you the best recordings of works from the vast world of classical music every weekday from 6 am to 6 pm. Chamber music, symphonies, choral works, violin concertos, piano sonatas, and more...engagingly presented with insight and a smile by our knowledgeable hosts.

Playlists are at the bottom of this page.

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November 09, 2012

6:06 AM

Academic Festival Overture Op 80

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Composer : Johannes Brahms

Catalog : 471627 CD

Conductor : Claudio Abbado

Orchestra : Berlin Philharmonic

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Label : D. Gramphn

6:17 AM

Parysatis: Airs de Ballet

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Composer : Camille Saint-Saens

Catalog : 1015 CD

Conductor : Geoffrey Simon

Orchestra : London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Label : Cala

6:27 AM

Beau Brummel: Minuet

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Composer : Sir Edward Elgar

Catalog : 6544 CD

Conductor : Norman Del Mar

Orchestra : Bournemouth Sinfonietta

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Label : Chandos

6:30 AM

Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D Op 3

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Composer : George Friederich Handel

Catalog : 907415 CD

Conductor : Richard Egarr

Orchestra : Academy of Ancient Music

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Label : Harm Mundi

6:44 AM

Fantastic Scherzo Op 25

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Composer : Josef Suk

Catalog : 3166 CD

Conductor : Jiri Belohlavek

Orchestra : Prague Symphony Orchestra

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Label : Supraphon

7:06 AM

THE MERRY WIDOW: Ballsirenen Walzer

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Composer : Franz Lehar

Catalog : 80547 CD

Conductor : Erich Kunzel

Orchestra : Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

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Label : Telarc

7:15 AM

Semper Fidelis (1888)

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Composer : John Philip Sousa

Catalog : 1998 CD

Conductor : William F. Santelmann

Orchestra : United States Marine Band

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Label : USMC

7:19 AM

KHOVANSHCHINA: Prelude

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Composer : Modest Moussorgsky

Catalog : 80705 CD

Conductor : Paavo Jarvi

Orchestra : Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

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Label : Telarc

7:28 AM

Concerto in D, RV 89

Artist : Wilbert Hazelzet, flute

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Composer : Antonio Vivaldi

Catalog : 471729 CD

Conductor : Thomas Fueri

Orchestra : Bern Camerata

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Label : D. Gramphn

7:42 AM

Herodiade Ballet Suite

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Composer : Jules Massenet

Catalog : 553124 CD

Conductor : Jean-Yves Ossonce

Orchestra : New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

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Label : Naxos

7:54 AM

Solitaire: Dances from the ballet

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Composer : Malcolm Arnold

Catalog : 8867 CD

Conductor : Bryden Thomson

Orchestra : Philharmonia Orchestra

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Label : Chandos

8:06 AM

Concerto Grosso in d Op 2, No. 3

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Composer : Francesco Geminiani

Catalog : 553019 CD

Conductor : Jaroslav Krcek

Orchestra : Capella Istropolitana

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Label : Naxos

8:15 AM

Concerto for guitar, two horns & strings in A Op 140

Artist : Karl Scheit, guitar

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Composer : Ferdinando Carulli

Catalog : 1020 CD

Conductor : Wilfried Boettcher

Orchestra : Vienna Soloists

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Label : Omega

8:28 AM

Overture to King Lear

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Composer : Mily Balakirev

Catalog : 1000153 CD

Conductor : Evgeny Svetlanov

Orchestra : USSR Symphony Orchestra

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Label : Melodya

8:42 AM

Turkish March Op 55

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Composer : Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Catalog : 553405 CD

Conductor : Arthur Fagen

Orchestra : Ukrainian National Symphony Or

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Label : Naxos

8:48 AM

Eclogue for piano and string orchestra Op 10

Artist : Jane Coop, piano

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Composer : Gerald Finzi

Catalog : 5208 CD

Conductor : Mario Bernardi

Orchestra : CBC Orchestra

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Label : CBC(RCI)

9:06 AM

IL FARNACE Sinfonia

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Composer : Francisco Corselli

Catalog : 920307 CD

Conductor : Emilio Moreno

Orchestra : El Concierto Espanol

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Label : Glossa

9:15 AM

Symphony in D

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Composer : Juan Crisostomo Arriaga

Catalog : 10488 CD

Orchestra : Concerto Koln

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Label : Capriccio

9:44 AM

Divertimento No. 3 in F, K. 138

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Composer : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Catalog : 9045 CD

Conductor : Yuli Turovsky

Orchestra : I Musici de Montreal

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Label : Chandos

10:00 AM

Concerto for 2 horns, stringsin E-Flat

Artist : Hermann Baumann, horn; Timothy Brown, horn

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Composer : George Phillip Telemann

Catalog : 412226 CD

Conductor : Iona Brown

Orchestra : Academy of St Martin in Fields

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Label : Philips

10:19 AM

Symphony No. 82 in C The Bear

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Composer : Franz Joseph Haydn

Catalog : 45972 CD

Conductor : Esa-Pekka Salonen

Orchestra : Stockholm Chamber Orchestra

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Label : CBS/Sony

10:45 AM

Potpourri Op 53

Artist : Jan Boland, flute; John Dowdall, guitar

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Composer : Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Catalog : 57983 CD

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Label : FleurdeSon

11:00 AM

Violin Concerto in F

Artist : Erno Sebestyen, violin

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Composer : Josef Myslivecek

Catalog : 1614 CD

Conductor : Erno Sebestyen

Orchestra : RIAS-Sinfonietta Berlin

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Label : KOCH Intl.

11:20 AM

Symphony No. 3 in c Op 78 Organ

Artist : Michael Murray, organ

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Composer : Camille Saint-Saens

Catalog : 80051 CD

Conductor : Eugene Ormandy

Orchestra : The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Label : Telarc

12:06 PM

Sinfonia in C

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Composer : Tomasso Albinoni

Catalog : 45557 CD

Conductor : Claudio Scimone

Orchestra : I Solisti Veneti

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Label : Erato

12:15 PM

Piano Concerto No. 1 in d Op 15

Artist : Krystian Zimerman, piano

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Composer : Johannes Brahms

Catalog : 6203 CD

Conductor : Simon Rattle

Orchestra : Berlin Philharmonic

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Label : D. Gramphn

1:09 PM

String Sextet in A Op 48

Artist : Sarah Chang, Bernard Hartog, violins; Wolfram Christ, Tanya Christ, violas; Georg Faust, Olaf Maninger cellos

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Composer : Antonin Dvorak

Catalog : 57243 CD

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Label : Angel/EMI

1:45 PM

Invitation to the Dance Op 65

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Composer : Carl Maria Von Weber (arr. Berlioz)

Catalog : 61250 CD

Conductor : Fritz Reiner

Orchestra : Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Label : RCA/BMG

2:00 PM

PALESTRINA: Prelude to Act III

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Composer : Hans Pfitzner

Catalog : 449571 CD

Conductor : Christian Thielemann

Orchestra : Orchester der Deutschen Oper

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Label : D. Gramphn

2:10 PM

Ein Heldenleben Op 40

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Composer : Richard Strauss

Catalog : 56149 CD

Conductor : Wolfgang Sawallisch

Orchestra : The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Label : Angel/EMI

3:00 PM

Adagio Tragico Op 21

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Composer : Leone Sinigaglia

Catalog : 1626 CD

Conductor : Jiri Starek

Orchestra : RIAS-Sinfonietta Berlin

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Label : KOCH Intl.

3:10 PM

Symphony No. 5 in c Op 67

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Composer : Ludwig Van Beethoven

Catalog : 33835 CD

Conductor : Paavo Jarvi

Orchestra : Deutsche Kammerphil. Bremen

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Label : RCA/BMG

3:43 PM

Tapiola Op 112

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Composer : Jean Sibelius

Catalog : 65176 CD

Conductor : Paavo Berglund

Orchestra : Helsinki Philharmonic

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Label : Angel/EMI

4:06 PM

Bold Island Suite

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Composer : Howard Hanson

Catalog : 80649 CD

Conductor : Erich Kunzel

Orchestra : Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

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Label : Telarc

4:30 PM

Concert Transcription on Rossini’s opera The Barbr of Seville

Artist : Andrei Korsakov, violin

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Composer : Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Catalog : 1000255 CD

Orchestra : Chamber Ensemble Concertino

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Label : Melodya

4:40 PM

BARBER OF SEVILLE: Una voce poco fa

Artist : Diana Damrau, soprano

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Composer : Gioacchino Rossini

Catalog : 19313 CD

Conductor : Dan Ettinger

Orchestra : Munich Radio Orchestra

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Label : Vrgn Clscs

4:45 PM

THE DEMON: Ballet Music

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Composer : Anton Rubinstein

Catalog : 220451 CD

Conductor : Michael Halasz

Orchestra : Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

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Label : MarcoPolo

5:06 PM

Das Spitzentuch der Konigin

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Composer : Johann Strauss II

Catalog : 223249 CD

Conductor : Alfred Walter

Orchestra : Slovak State Philh., Kosice

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Label : MarcoPolo

5:17 PM

En un barco fenicio In a Phonecian Vessel

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Composer : Jesus Guridi

Catalog : 557110 CD

Conductor : Juan José Mena

Orchestra : Bilbao Symphony Orchestra

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Label : Naxos

5:30 PM

Concierto de Aranjuez

Artist : Scott Tennant, guitar

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Composer : Joaquin Rodrigo

Catalog : 126025 CD

Conductor : Leo Brouwer

Orchestra : Orquesta de Cordoba

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Label : GHA

5:55 PM

Cuban Landscape with Rain

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Composer : Leo Brouwer

Catalog : 80593 CD

Orchestra : Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

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Label : Telarc

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Maestro Jaap van Zweden, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev

5:10 pm

Fri May 10, 2013

The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert On WRTI: Two Popular Russian Works!

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Maestro Jaap van Zweden

Credit Amanda Hall Studios

Violinist Juliette Kang

By Gregg Whiteside

This Sunday from 2 to 4 pm, Guest Conductor Jaap van Zweden takes the podium to conduct The Philadelphia Orchestra in an all-Russian program from mid-April, which offers two major works. Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, inspired by the sights and sounds of Italy, was originally scored for string sextet. We’ll hear it performed in an expanded version for the full strings of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

WRTI Picks from NPR Music

12:56 am

Tue April 16, 2013

Remembering Colin Davis, A Conductor Beloved Late In Life

Credit George Freston / Getty Images

The late Colin Davis conducting the last night of Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall in September 1968.

By editor

Originally published on Tue April 16, 2013 2:59 am

WRTI Picks from NPR Music

7:57 am

Tue April 9, 2013

Chopin's 'Mad Men' Cameo

Credit Michael Yarish/AMC

Dr. Arnold Rosen (Brian Markinson) and Sylvia Rosen (Linda Cardellini) celebrate New Year's Eve with Megan Draper (Jessica Pare) and Don Draper (Jon Hamm) as the sixth season of Mad Men opens.

By Mark Mobley

Originally published on Mon April 8, 2013 6:02 pm

Mad Men's music is as important as its plot and costumes. While attention has been lavished on its pop songs, the show's occasional use of classical music has gone largely unrecognized.

Happy Easter!

4:35 pm

Thu March 28, 2013

Good Friday on WRTI: Bach's St. Matthew Passion

By Jack Moore

Listen to our annual broadcast of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 on Good Friday, March 29th, a few minutes after 12 noon.

The recording features Karl Richter conducting the Munich Bach Orchestra, Munich Bach Choir, and Regensburg Cathedral Choir. Edith Mathis (Soprano), Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano), Peter Schreier (Tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), and Matti Salminen (Bass).

Happy Easter from WRTI!

WRTI Picks from NPR Music

6:36 pm

Thu March 21, 2013

Remembering Risë Stevens, A Star Of Opera And Pop Culture

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Credit Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera

The late American mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens in her signature role as Carmen.

Credit Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts

The late mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens: opera doyenne and, at her peak, pop-culture star.

By Tom Huizenga and Anastasia Tsioulcas

Originally published on Fri March 22, 2013 10:59 am

Videos We Love!

2:07 pm

Thu March 21, 2013

Watch and Listen: J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion

By WRTI Staff

So beautiful! Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244 is performed here under the baton of Enoch Zu Guttenberg, founder of the prestigious Neabeuern Choral Society. Vocalists include: Jard Van Nes, Hermann Prey, Claes-Hakan Ahnsjo, Margaret Marshall, and Aldo Baldin. Listen to the entire St. Matthew Passion on WRTI on Good Friday, March 29th at 12 noon, and in a Philadelphia Orchestra live, concert recording on Sunday, April 28th.

WRTI Picks from NPR Music

3:22 pm

Fri March 1, 2013

Marches Madness: John Philip Sousa's 'Washington Post'

Credit Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Circa 1910: A program advertising John Philip Sousa and his band.

By Mark Mobley

Originally published on Fri March 1, 2013 3:25 pm

Gregg's Classical Thoughts

6:15 am

Tue January 15, 2013

What's So Great About Franz Schubert? Gregg Whiteside Knows...

By Gregg Whiteside

Listen

Gregg describes his awe-filled experience visiting the house where Schubert was born in Vienna.

It's so easy to find oneself attracted to the music of Franz Schubert. His unmatched gift for lyricism makes him so approachable, so comprehensible; and we feel ourselves being pulled into his musical world – in my case, at a very early age. But now, with the wisdom of my years, my appreciation for Schubert has deepened. For lying within this musical world of color and melodic beauty is a powerful undertow of mystery, of light and dark, of profundity beyond the years of a young genius who lived only until the age of 31. January 31st, 2013 marks the 215th anniversary of Schubert's birth - so I thought it was an opportune time to share my thoughts on one of my all-time favorite composers.

From Le Poisson Rouge in NYC!

8:37 am

Mon January 14, 2013

Live Webcast on WRTI.org: Daniel Barenboim & The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Jan. 29 at 8 pm

Don't miss what promises to be a fabulous concert brought to you live from the intimate Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. Founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said in 1999, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra brings together young musicians from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt – joined by a number of musicians from Iran, Turkey and Spain – to perform music and promote mutual understanding, non-violence and reconciliation.

This will be a live webcast, right here on WRTI.org, on Tuesday, January 29th at 8 pm. Join us!

In Memoriam

12:17 pm

Wed October 17, 2012

Remembering Three Composers Who All Died At Auschwitz On This Date in 1944

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Composer Viktor Ullmann perished on October 17, 1944

Composer Pavel Haas

Composer Hans Krasa

By Jack Moore

Three of the 20th century's greatest musicians all died on October 17, 1944 - and all at the hands of the Nazis. Czech composers Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, and Hans Krasa all perished at Auschwitz (see videos of their music below); they were all taken there just three days after their final concert together on October 14, 1944 at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

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