ENCORE!

It's August 8, 1803, and Parisian Piano Maker Sebastien Erard Gives One of His Sturdy New Creations to Beethoven - a new piano! With this instrument, the composer was able to set aside his forte piano and write more expressive and emotional music, beginning with the Waldstein Sonata.

Music for double-bass and orchestra and a Schubert Symphony are on the program for this month's broadcast concert by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.  Guest Conductor Michael Stern, Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony (and son of violin great Isaac Stern) leads a program that features Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Principal Double-bassist Joseph Conyers in one of the virtuoso concertos by 19th century bassist Giovanni Bottesini.  Sunday, Feb. 17, 5 to 6 pm.

Program:

Lorin Maazel returns to conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.  Maazel, NY Philharmonic Music Director from 2002 to 2009, leads a performance of the Sibelius Symphony No. 2.  With Bronfman, we'll hear the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1.  Sunday, Feb. 17 3 to 5 pm.

Program:

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Christoph Eschenbach conducts the New York Philharmonic, joined by violinist Pinchas Zukerman, for a performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1. We'll also hear Bruckner's Symphony No. 6. Join us!

Sunday, February 10, 3 to 5 pm. 

The San Francisco Symphony’s radio project, The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever, is about musical revolutions—about the composers, compositions, and musical movements that changed the way people heard, or thought about, music. Each program explores the historical backdrop and the musical precursors to the revolutionary change, as well as the lasting influence of that moment in music history.

This week's program: October 29, 1787:  The Premiere of Don Giovanni in Prague
With this work, Mozart attains his maturity and writes a masterpiece that dominates opera forever, echoing in Wagner and beyond. Suzanne Vega is host. Sunday, February 10, 5 to 6 pm.

Pittsburgh Symphony Music Director Manfred Honeck travels to New York this week to guest conduct a program with the New York Philharmonic that includes the Grieg Piano Concerto, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the piano. 

Also on the program, Beethoven Symphony No. 7, and a work inspired by the a composer's experiences in battle in World War I.  Sunday, Feb. 3rd, 3 to 5 pm.

Program:

What a treat! Tune in today to hear a performance described as "phenomenal" by The New York Times.  It's a re-broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra's recent concert at Carnegie Hall, recorded live on Jan. 17th. Today from 2 to 5 pm.

It's an afternoon of Barber, Copeland, and Williams on our monthly Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia broadcast. Dirk Brosse conducts the ensemble in performances recorded live at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater in December 2012. Sunday, January 20th, 5 to 6 pm. Join us!

Program:

BARBER: Serenade, Op.1

WILLIAMS: Essay for Strings

COPLAND: Quiet City

Rodney Mack, trumpet; Geoffrey Deemer, English horn

COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite

The San Francisco Symphony’s radio project, The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever, is about musical revolutions—about the composers, compositions, and musical movements that changed the way people heard, or thought about, music.

Each program will explore the historical backdrop and the musical precursors to the revolutionary change, as well as examine the aftershock and the lasting influence of that moment in music history. 

Alan Gilbert conducts this week's New York Philharmonic concert. Gil Shaham is guest soloist for the Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber.  We'll also hear Sergei Rachmaninoff's final orchestral work, the Symphonic Dances.  The concert opens with a contemporary work by American composer Steven Stucky. Sunday, January 6th, 3 to 5 pm.

Program:
Steven Stucky: Symphony


Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14


Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances