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Classical Music Highlights

Classical Music Highlights

From WSHU's daytime and evening classical programs, Emily Boyer and Lauren Rico give you a heads-up on some of the best music they've selected.
  • Karolina Wielocha
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    Decca Classics
    Robert Schumann looked back on childhood as a time of wonder and imagination. He captured those memories in thirteen short piano pieces, including the beloved Dreaming.Hear pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason perform Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.
  • Poonnawich Raksawong
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    Unsplash
    Autumn welcomes cooler days, longer nights, and ruby-tinged maples. Surround yourself with autumn-inspired music, from Antonio Vivaldi’s harvest dance to Edward MacDowell’s sketches from the New England woods.
  • Tomorrow is the first day of fall! With so many orchards in our region, fall means fresh apples. Fiddler and composer Mark O’Connor has a sweet take on the story of horticultural icon, Johnny Appleseed.
  • The days are getting shorter, the air is turning cooler, and the colors of the season are beginning to show. For centuries, composers have found inspiration in autumn… from the bustle of the harvest to the beauty of a changing landscape.Welcome the new season with Sunday Baroque, Sunday morning from 7 to 1 on 91.1, 107.5 and the WSHU classical stream.
  • Documentaries show us the world as it is. Music can add perspective, emotion and sometimes an entirely new layer to a true story.Hear scores by Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Jeff Beal and more on an evening of documentary soundtracks. Reel Music, Saturday night at 9 and Sunday evening at 6 on WSHU.
  • American composers have found countless ways to tell our stories through music. And some of their most distinctive works have earned the Pulitzer Prize.America 250: The American Experience celebrates those achievements, from the simple beauty of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring to the inventive vocal music of Caroline Shaw.Discover the creativity and imagination of Pulitzer Prize-winning American composers, tonight at 8 on WSHU.
  • From austere opening notes by Jean Sibelius to lush harmonies by Johannes Brahms, from sparkling runs by Antonio Vivaldi to elevated ornaments by Joseph Bologne, take a tour through the many sounds of violin this morning.
  • Ancient Finnish mythology tells of a mysterious realm beyond the world of the living. Jean Sibelius drew on those legends for music filled with mystery, danger and the supernatural.Take a musical journey into the Finnish underworld, tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.
  • Getting going in the morning can feel like a Herculean task. Rise to the challenge with music that takes you to the top of Mount Olympus. Be swept up with beauty and power of Greek gods Apollo, Aphrodite, and Ares in Peter Boyer's Three Olympians.
  • Henriette Bosmans was one of the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century... and a celebrated concert pianist in her own right. Her career was interrupted by war and persecution, and for years her music was rarely heard outside the Netherlands.Discover the wit and energy of Bosmans’ Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.
  • Pepe Romero was born in Spain and moved with his family to southern California when he was a kid. He became a classical guitarist, like his father and brothers. In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, hear his performance of Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas by Manuel Ponce.
  • Florence Price wrote her First Violin Concerto in 1939. Then, like so much of her music, it nearly disappeared. Decades later, her work is finally getting the attention it deserves.Hear violinist Randall Goosby bring Price’s passionate, virtuosic concerto to the spotlight, tonight on 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream.