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Schedules and playlists


Classical with Cathy Fuller

Monday-Friday, 9am-noon
Classical with Brian McCreath
Monday-Thursday, noon-4pm
BSO Live
Some Fridays at 2pm
Classical Weekend
Saturday-Sunday, 7am-11am
BSO on Record
Sunday, 2pm-3pm
Sunday Concert
Sunday, 3pm-5pm

 

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Classical Connections
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Events

Arts in the Village presents an Evening of Opera
Saturday Nov 7
Audrey Cienniwa plays the complete Bach Cello Suites
Saturday Nov 7
Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents "wordless, wondrous things"
Saturday Nov 7
MCC Presents Triton Brass Quintet
Saturday Nov 7 7:30P-9:30P
If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On
Saturday Nov 7 8:00P
"You keep working at it [until] it becomes a thing that really grips your whole soul. And it has to in order for it to be real music."
—Composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009)

Coming in December:
99.5 Boston's All Classical Station

From our studios

Hear live performances recorded in our studios and broadcast on WGBH 89.7
Nov 3, 11am Till Fellner, piano
See our full archive of live performances
Download our Classical Performance podcast

WGBH is bringing WCRB 99.5 into our family of noncommercial, listener-supported public broadcasting stations, preserving full-time classical radio in Boston. Tune into 99.5 All Classical, beginning Dec. 1, to hear the music you love 24/7.
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Coming up on WGBH

Saturdays at 11am and Sundays at 6pm

From the Top
Hosted by pianist Christopher O’Riley, each one-hour broadcast presents five high-caliber performances along with interviews, sketches, and games, revealing the heart and soul behind young classical musicians. Now in its 10th year on air, From the Top is taped before audiences in concert halls from Boston to Honolulu.

Monday, Nov. 9, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Classical Music with Brian McCreath | Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy
A new recording has been released of pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy (shown) and his son Vovka playing duets by Debussy and Ravel, including the orchestral masterpiece Jeux, in a new transcription by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet that, with orchestral colors stripped away, offers a clearer window into Debussy's trademark harmonic language.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Classical Music with Brian McCreath | Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
Recorded in concert last May in Münster, Germany, the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Part 2 of Berlioz's romantic Symphonie Fantastique with the young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons (shown).

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Classical Music with Brian McCreath | Orchestra of St. Luke's
On Veterans Day, hear the Orchestra of St. Luke's under Robert Craft (shown) play the Suite from Stravinksy's L'histoire du soldat, a Faustian story that embodies much of the post-World War I artistic sensibility.

 

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A blog by WGBH Radio host Brian McCreath

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