The Chineke! Foundation was created in 2015 by double bass player, Chi-chi Nwanoku. Its mission is... "Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music." Hear Roderick Cox lead the Chineke! Orchestra playing a symphony by Florence Price tonight.

Sharon Isbin is a multiple Grammy award-winning guitarist who has shaped the landscape for contemporary classical guitar. Hear Sharon Isbin play Flamenco-inspired chamber music!

The award-winning Catalyst Quartet is on a mission to celebrate unity and amplify the voices of underrepresented composers. Michelle Cann joins them to play Florence Price's Quintet for Piano and Strings tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

April is National Poetry Month! Here’s a wonderful line by E.E. Cummings, “out into the morning the young / morning with a warm world in it”. Augusta Reed Thomas sets those words to music performed by a local group, the Elm City Girls’ Choir.

Take a musical journey to one of the planet’s most remote and awe-inspiring frontiers. Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica isn’t your typical nature piece—it’s vast, icy, and quietly intense.

Happy Earth Day! The sounds of sunrise, the changing of the seasons, and Frederic Chopin's Prelude No. 15, like a gentle rain. All music that inspires us to care for the world we call home.

It’s one of the first great concertos ever written for the guitar—and it still holds its place as a cornerstone of the repertoire. Mauro Giuliani’s Guitar Concerto No. 1 is smooth, stylish, and shows off what the guitar can really do. Hear why it set the standard for classical guitar concertos.

It’s Monday, and if you’re a little bleary-eyed from the weekend, gently wake up with Claude Debussy’s dreamy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. The perfect way to ease back in this morning.

There’s been some lovely music composed for Easter, including a brand-new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio, which he wrote to celebrate the holiday in Leipzig, Germany, in 1725. You’ll also hear a buoyant double trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and a charming bouquet of Scottish spring flowers. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

This week on Reel Music, Ben-Hur takes the spotlight—betrayal, redemption, and that unforgettable chariot race. Drama like that deserves an epic score—and it’s not alone. We’re diving into biblical blockbusters where the music is as grand as the story.