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Classical with Cathy Fuller

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

Worcester Chamber Music Society - Baroque Fantasies
Saturday Nov 21 7:30P
Xanthos Ensemble
Saturday Nov 21 7:30P
Newton Choral Society Concert: St. Cecilia Mass by Franz Joseph Haydn & Hor che'l ciel e la terra by Claudio Monteverdi
Saturday Nov 21 8:00P
Rachmaninoff and more with soloist Ben Pasternack
Saturday Nov 21 8:00P-10:30P
WomenSong Concert
Saturday Nov 21 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)

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Coming up on WGBH

Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Classical Music with Brian McCreath | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Recorded in concert in April 2008, Osmo Vänskä (shown) leads one of the world's great orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, in Sibelius's Second Symphony. This performance demonstrates what makes this orchestra special: a sound that combines elegance and virtuosic clarity. Later this season, the Celebrity Series presents the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in concert.

ThanksgivingThursday, Nov. 26, 9am and 1pm on WGBH 89.7
Classical Music with Cathy Fuller and Brian McCreath | Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving Day, and hosts Cathy Fuller and Brian McCreath have cooked up some special musical selections. This morning, hear Martinu’s La revue de cuisine, and this afternoon, tune in for Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World.”

Friday, Nov. 27, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
BSO Live | Andrew Davis and Joshua Bell
Tune in as English conductor Andrew Davis (shown) leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and American soloist Joshua Bell in Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Also on the LIVE program are Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements.

 

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