Tonight at 7:00pm on WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque, the renowned coloratura soprano performs concert arias by Mozart, bookended by Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2.
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Pianist Sharon Su fell in love with a Florence Price composition, and then received an error-riddled version of the sheet music.
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Our April playlist showers us with jazz, post-punk, glam rock, and K-pop, then some fresh classical favorites and old standbys bring it all home.
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The words of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and theoretical physicist Richard Feynman introduce a secular twist to the choral mass format in David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet Mass, brought to life by the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing.
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Later this month, Boston Baroque, led by Martin Pearlman, will present Mozart’s incredible "Don Giovanni" in a fully staged production. In anticipation of the performances, General Manager of GBH Music and author of the novel "Imagining Don Giovanni" Anthony Rudel takes a closer look at the opera’s characters and the men who created them.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky.
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On The Bach Hour, organist Balint Karosi joins host Brian McCreath with rich context for his performance of the composer's magisterial collection called Clavierübung, Part III.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists.
From NPR Music
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Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral's longest-serving organist. Just days before the church's gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
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NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.
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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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