This Week at The Classical Station
by Chrissy Keuper & Mark Schreiner
This Week at The Classical Station is on hiatus until 12 January 2026.
Happy New Year from all of us at The Classical Station!
Tuesday, 23 December 2025
Join George Leef today at 11am ET for his weekly Legendary Performer: French conductor Jean-François Palliard.
Before the 1970s, it was not easy to find concerts or recordings of the Baroque repertory outside of Europe. But when the LP catalog of Jean-François Palliard became available in the United States, everything changed. In particular, his recording of the Canon in D by Pachelbel with a slower tempo that made it nearly twice as long as it had been heard caused a sensation that has never really dissipated.
Monday, December 22
JJoin Vince Tillona for a special Christmas edition of Drop the Needle. From our vast vinyl collection, Vince has selected recordings of Tchaikovsky, Handel and American colonial composer Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750), son of Johann Pachelbel of Canon in D fame. The needle drops at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Tonight’s Monday Night at the Symphony features the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hear violinist Hillary Hahn in two thrilling, back-to-back performances and Nelson Freire’s performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Eastern.
On this date in the history of classical music:
1962 — Harpist, university professor and president of the Liszt Academy Andrea Vigh was born in Hungary. A unique combination of accomplished instrumentalist and respected academic researcher, Vigh graduated from the Liszt Academy in 1986 as a harpist-professor and musicologist.
As a performer, she has been active with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, has appeared on stage at the Salzburg Festival, and has released 10 solo albums. As an educator, she made a documentary for Hungarian television on the history of the harp and has taught harp at the Liszt Academy. She was appointed president of the academy in 2013.