The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra returns to radio with BSO Encore Sundays at 1pm here on WBJC! Each two-hour program features never-before-released recordings from Marin’s tenure including signature repertoire, BSO commissions and world premieres, community collaborations, and BSO musicians as soloists. These broadcasts are made possible with generous support from PNC and the Friends of WBJC.

Hosted by Jonathan Palevsky and Kati Harrison, each two-hour program includes insights about the pieces that were performed from Marin Alsop and one of the BSO’s fabulous musicians.

• 2020 BSO Encore shows – archive listing
• Jennifer Higdon On The Creation Of Her Pulitzer Prize Winning Violin Concerto.
• Michael Daugherty Takes Us On A Trip Through “UFO.”
• Joan Tower on Beethoven and Her Concerto for Orchestra
• Composer John Corigliano Guides Us Through His Piano Concerto & To Music

2021 Broadcast Schedule:

COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES AND MORE

Sunday, March 7
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 B-flat Major
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major

Sunday, March 14
BATES Mothership
PUTS Moonlight Concerto
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Sunday, March 21
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
GLASS Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
DEBUSSY La mer
RAVEL La valse

Sunday, March 28
MAHLER Symphony No. 3

Sunday, April 4
ROUSE Berceuse Infinie
MOZART Requiem in D Minor

Sunday, April 11
SMITH Star-Spangled Banner
GERSHWIN Cuban Overture
BERNSTEIN Suite from West Side Story
KUSTER Moxie
BATES Mothership
RAVEL Boléro

Sunday, April 18
ROXANNA PANUFNIK Across the Line of Dreams
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms
VILLA-LOBOS Chôros  No. 10

Sunday, April 25
ANNA CLYNE Abstractions
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Sunday, May 2
ROUSE Rapture
SCRIABIN Symphony No. 4, “The Poem of Ecstasy”
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Sunday, May 9
LESHNOFF Dancing Blue Crabs! (Centennial Commission)
BARBER Symphony No. 1
COPLAND Lincoln Portrait
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Sunday, May 16
SCHUMANN (arr. Mahler) Manfred Overture
SCHUMANN (arr. Mahler) Symphony No. 1, “Spring”
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Sunday, May 23
JOSEPH SCHWANTNER New Morning for the World
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

Sunday, May 30
PÄRT Credo
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Sunday, June 6
HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
MACMILLAN Percussion Concerto No. 2
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Sunday, June 13
MAHLER Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”