Archive for May, 2025
5-31-25 Face The Music Listings
This week we welcome back Phil Greenfield from The American Record Guide and our other distinguished panelists were Jed Gaylin from the Bay Atlantic and Hopkins Symphonies and WBJC’s own Kati Harrison. I decided we would have 4 great American Symphonies…and by God we did! PLAY DATE: Sat, 05/31/2025 5:00 PM 4409 Aaron Copland Symphony […]
Playlist: May/31/25
8:31 PM Igor Stravinsky — Symphony of Psalms Conductor: Leonard BernsteinEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraEnglish Bach Festival ChorusCBS/Sony, 47628 8:19 PM Giacomo Puccini — Madama Butterfly: Il cannone del porto! Conductor: Anton GuadagnoEnsemble: New Philharmonia OrchestraMontserrat Caballe, sopranoShirley Verrett, mezzo-sopranoRCA/BMG, 60818 8:15 PM Aaron Copland — At The River Shirley Verrett, mezzo-sopranoCharles Wadsworth, pianoCBS/Sony, 82319 8:13 […]
Toccata listings for 6/1/25
On tonight’s program, Bach on the accordion, Beethoven on a “Military Piano,” and an American work for Organ and orchestra. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 4931 Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 in c BWV 826 Denon 18031 SOLO Stefan Hussong,accordion 18:57 C 1 10-15 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:23 PM 73 Ludwig van Beethoven […]
Playlist: May/30/25
11:46 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 8 Key: E minor Opus: 59Philips, 4758503 10:51 PM Sir Edward Elgar — Symphony No. 2 Key: E flat major Opus: 63Conductor: Andre PrevinPhilips, 454250 10:45 PM Richard Strauss — Morgen Opus: 27Conductor: Kurt MasurEnsemble: Gewandhausorchester LeipzigJessye Norman, sopranoPhilips, 411052 10:40 PM Frederic Chopin — Etude […]
BSO Encore 2024-2025 show list archive
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Sunday, November 3 Jonathon Heyward, conductor Behzod Abduraimov, piano TANIA LEON Pasajes TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances New World Symphony with Heyward Sunday, November 10 Jonathon Heyward, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano JAMES LEE III Amer’ican GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” Tchaikovsky Symphony No. […]
WBJC Operafest 2025 Schedule 6/14-9/6
More operas included in the 2025 WBJC Operafest Series will be announced in the coming months. Please stay tuned for more information! All start times at 1pm unless otherwise noted. June 14 – La forza del destino / Giuseppe Verdi From La Scala in Milan, Italy. Anna Netrebko (Donna Leonora); Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo di […]
Thursday 05/29/25 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor; Gil Shaham, violin
Playlist: May/29/25
10:28 PM Samuel Barber — Piano Concerto Opus: 38Conductor: Leonard SlatkinEnsemble: St Louis Symphony OrchestraJohn Browning, pianoRCA/BMG, 60732 9:51 PM Antonin Dvorak — String Quintet Key: E flat major Opus: 97Ensemble: Vlach QuartetLadislav Kyselak, violaNaxos, 8553376 9:33 PM Danny Elfman — Batman Suite Conductor: Erich KunzelTelarc, 80231 9:25 PM Frederic Chopin — Waltz No. 9 […]
Richard Goode closes Shriver Hall season
The 2024-25 season of the Shriver Hall Concert Series closes with an all-Beethoven program with pianist, Richard Goode on Sunday, June 1 at 5:30 PM. I spoke to Executive Director, Catherine Cochran.
Wednesday 05/28/25 San Francisco Symphony
11:00 PM ORCHESTRA: San Francisco Symphony CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
