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Classical Performance

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The Classical Performance podcast features the very best live classical performances, recorded by WCRB. From local up-and-comers to world-renowned masters, the Classical Performance podcast...

Episodes

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Schumann and Romance

Robert Schumann was born in this month in 1810, so we have Krista River and Judith Gordon performing Schumann's great song-cycle, "Frauenlie...

38:48Jun 10, 2018

The Passion of Rachmaninov with pianist Ya-fei Chuang

We're celebrating Rachmaninov's birthday! Ya-fei Chuang's virtuosity and passion are front and center in this live performance of his Piano...

22:26Apr 15, 2018

A Celebration of Maurice Ravel!

Ravel once said: “We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.“ Canadian pianist J...

33:59Mar 20, 2018

It's Mendelssohn's birthday! Let's celebrate!

February is Mendelssohn's birthday month, and it's also the month of Valentine's Day. Felix wrote the Andante and Rondo Capriccioso for a gi...

38:18Feb 11, 2018

Happy Birthday Mozart!

Mozart's birthday is January 27th, and we're celebrating with a couple of great performances from our studio. Mozart: Violin Sonata in G maj...

32:37Jan 7, 2018

A Beethoven Birthday celebration

It's Beethoven's birthday on December 16th! We celebrate with a studio performance featuring some of his more out-of-the way pieces. Beethov...

27:53Dec 10, 2017

Mistral plays Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"

The chamber music ensemble Mistral is in its 21st season. We take a look back at a studio performance of a scaled-down version of Vivaldi's...

41:22Nov 12, 2017

Tyler Duncan sings "Songs of Travel" by Vaughan Williams

Baritone Tyler Duncan sings Vaughan Williams's tribute to the open road: "Songs of Travel", set to the poetry of Robert Louis Stephenson. Ra...

24:19Oct 8, 2017

Alisa Weilerstein plays Chopin with Inon Barnatan

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein has been acclaimed world-wide since she performed in our studio back in 2008. We revisit that perfromance with Ino...

26:25Jul 23, 2017

The Boston Early Music Festival - Retrospective

Looking forward to the Boston Early Music Festival, June 11-18, 2017, we remember three great performances from past festivals. Handel: Fuga...

35:24Jun 7, 2017

A Brahms Celebration with James Campbell and Marc-Andre Hamelin

Clarinetist James Campbell and pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin got together in our WCRB studio to celebrate Brahms: Johannes Brahms: Sonata for C...

23:56May 7, 2017

A Bach Celebration from WCRB's Studio

Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, with two fine performances from our WCRB studio: J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2 for Violin in D mino...

35:25Mar 25, 2017

A Chopin Celebration from WCRB's Studio

Celebrating the March birthday of Frederic Chopin - Two performances from our WCRB Studio: Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65 with Alisa...

37:31Mar 9, 2017

A Mozart Celebration from WCRB's Studios

It's a Mozart Birthday Celebration - three fabulous peformances from our WGBH/WCRB Studios: Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304, with C...

44:42Jan 27, 2017

Daniil Trifonov plays Fairy Tales by Medtner

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil...

14:10Jul 22, 2016

Blue Heron sings Du Fay

Blue Heron sings Guillaume Du Fay Guillaume Du Fay: Entre vous, gentils amoureux Du Fay: Je me complains Du Fay: J’atendray tant qu’il vous...

36:20May 29, 2016

Trio Cleonice plays Beethoven

Beethoven, with Trio Cleonice Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 70, No. 2 in E-flat Major Trio Cleonice: Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Gwen Krosnick, c...

31:51Apr 30, 2016

Charlie Albright plays Liszt and Chopin

The Washington Post calls him “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” Robert Schumann, trans. Franz Liszt: Widmung Frederic Ch...

20:37Mar 25, 2016

Christina Day Martinson plays Biber

Biber's Mystery Sonatas, with violinist Christina Day Martinson Heinrich Biber: Mystery Sonatas Nos. 9-12 Christina Day Martinson, violin; M...

32:21Feb 6, 2016

Max Levinson plays Schumann

Schumann, with pianist Max Levinson Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13; Arabesque, Op. 18 Recorded at WGBH's Studio One on September...

34:58Nov 28, 2015