ENCORE!

WRTI welcomes the Bucks County Choral Society to our broadcast line up. Don't miss a recording of the opening concert of their 40th season with Music Director Thomas Lloyd conducting a performance of the Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil, a symphony for a cappella voices, considered a crowning achievement of Russian Orthodox choral literature. Sunday, December 30th, 5 to 6 pm.

Don't miss this beautiful program! A celebration of the season as told through the glorious voices of Chanticleer - the 12-voice San Francisco-based men's choir known. The program spans the globe and the centuries, from England in the 1300s to new arrangements of classic and contemporary carols. 

Sunday, December 23, 5 to 6 pm.

Experience "The Four Seasons" with two composers from two continents. Hear the original work by Vivaldi, and then travel to South America to engage in the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, by Astor Piazolla.  Symphony in C Concertmaster Stefani Collins is soloist, with Music Director Rossen Milanov conducting. Sunday, December 16th, 3 to 5 pm.

PROGRAM:

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Astor Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Listen on Sunday, December 9th, 5 to 6 pm for Choral Arts Philadelphia's very first concert broadcast on WRTI. This distinguished chorus, now celebrating its 30-year anniversary, transports listeners into immersive musical experiences of bygone days by reproducing the original instrumental and vocal practices that have marked the history of music.

The program will feature works by J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, and a special Hanukkah Cantata by local composer David Ludwig. Music Director Matthew Glandorf conducts.

Tune in on Sunday, December 2nd, 3 to 5 pm as Leonard Bernstein conducts his own music on this week's New York Philharmonic broadcast, from the ensemble's vast recorded archive. It's Jewish-themed music in honor of the upcoming Hanukkah holiday that begins on December 8th.

PROGRAM:

BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms (World-premiere performance in 1965)

Columbus Boychoir

BERNSTEIN: Kaddish, Symphony No.3

Camerata Singers

We have the music for the perfect Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Beginning on Thursday, join us for a particularly American flavor with music by American composers from Copland to Bernstein to John Alden Carpenter.  There will also be a family celebration with some of the great names in music, including the Bachs, the Strauss family, father and son Mozart and more! 

It's a two-hour "Kimmel Center Presents" program on Sunday, November 18, 3 to 5 pm. In part one, you'll hear a tribute concert featuring legendary organist John Weaver, on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in Verizon Hall. The concert took place this past Spring, and was sponsored by the American Guild of Organists.  It features the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Prokofiev, Cesar Frank, and John Weaver himself.

It's an afternoon of works by Beethoven and Brosse on our monthly Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia broadcast. Dirk Brosse conducts his own work, SIRE. Then, it's Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major with soloist Lorenzo Gatto. Sunday, November 18th, 5 to 6 pm. Join us!

PROGRAM
Brossé: SIRE
Dirk Brosse, conductor & composer

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Lorenzo Gatto, violin
Dirk Brosse, conductor