News & Reviews

Tonight’s Monday Night at the Symphony highlights the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In the 106 years since its founding, it has expanded from its small roots into one of America’s leading orchestras. The orchestra’s current Music Director, Jonathan Heyward, answered a few of our questions about their current program.

This week on Preview!, Rob Kennedy discusses Béla Bartok and the Netherlands’ devotion to art with conductor Karina Canellakis. Canellakis has held posts as a Chief Conductor and guest conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recently, she led the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in recording a collection of Bartok’s orchestral pieces, along with his Concerto for Orchestra. 

We were honored to interview Leonard Slatkin for June 5th’s My Life in Music program! Slatkin has been a prominent force in the world of classical music for over 50 years, having served as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, Conductor Laureate of the St. Louis Symphony, and guest conductor of the Manhattan School of Music Symphony and Yale Philharmonia. In this interview, he speaks about his career and his outlook on music with Rob Kennedy and Naomi Lambert.

This Sunday, Rob Kennedy speaks with Owain Park about The Gesualdo Six’s recent release, Lux Aeterna, an exploration of grief and our response to it. Owain Park serves as the director of this group of award-winning British consort singers.

This Saturday at 1:00 pm, join the Classical Station for a special presentation of Richard Wagner's Siegfried. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Reiner Goldberg plays the role of Seigfried in this Archival presentation.

On April 24th , The Classical Station lost our dear friend and colleague Sherman Wallace. Sherman was the regular host of “Sleepers Awake” for many years and delighted our listeners with his knowledge of classical music, his soothing voice, and his presence. Here are some memories from the staff and volunteers that worked with him most.

Tonight, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande will be highlighted in our program, Monday Night at the Symphony. Led by Music Director Jonathan Nott, the OSR has dedicated 105 years to providing Switzerland’s city of Geneva with amazing performances of classical music.

Sunday night May 21st, pianist Francine Kay appears on Preview! She has performed with the Princeton Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and won the New York Pro Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall. She spoke with Rob Kennedy about her recent recording, Things Lived and Dreamt, and her career teaching at Princeton. 

WCPE 89.7 FM, The Classical Station, a nonprofit classical music radio station, is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023 Education Fund grants. Grants totaling $16,500 have been awarded to seven outstanding organizations dedicated to providing classical music education to children in our community.

Decorated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes boasts a comprehensive discography stretching back to 1989, which includes works for both solo piano and ensemble. For the last decade, as a Sony Classics artist, he has approached some of the greatest and best-known pieces in the piano repertoire: Beethoven’s piano concertos, a Chopin collection, and, more recently, a set of recordings focusing on the compositions of Mozart in the years 1785 and 1786.

Our guests on Preview! this week are Mary Elizabeth Bowden and David Dash, known collectively as the Dash Duo. They speak with Naomi Lambert about their upcoming concert, Trumpets and Grieg, at the Carolina Theater of Durham on May 14th at 3 p.m.

We recently interviewed Geoffrey Burgess, the author of The Thorn of the Honey Locust: The Chronicle of an Eighteenth-Century Musician. Learn more about the book with this 15-minute discussion with the author!

This month’s guest on My Life in Music is renowned pianist Kathryn Stott. Having collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma for years, Kathryn Stott achieved recognition at the age of 19 after her success at the Leeds International Music Festival. In this interview, she speaks about her career with host Naomi Lambert.

This week, The Classical Station features Steven Fox, the conductor of The Clarion Choir, as our Preview! guest. Join us for the full interview at 7 PM on Sunday, April 30th! Download our app, stream online on TheClassicalStation.org, or turn your radio to 89.7 FM.

This week, Preview! features pianist Sarah Cahill. In addition to collaborations with and commissions by top-ranked musicians and composers, in 2018 she was announced a Champion of New Music by the American Composers Forum. She speaks with Rob Kennedy about her project, The Future is Female, a collection of piano pieces composed by women past and present.