Classics Live brings you exclusive performances from throughout the KPR listening area. Our microphones travel to the Sunflower Music Festival, the Lied Center, the Ruel Joyce Recital series, the Great Spaces Music and Arts series, as well as performances recorded in Kansas Public Radio's live studio. Performers include the Emerson String Quartet, the Zoco Duo, Ensemble Iberica, and members of the Kansas City Symphony, among others. The series producer is KPR's Cordelia Brown, with recording engineer Chuck Smith. Darrell Brogdon hosts the program. Thursdays at 7 p.m. 

Upcoming Shows

Classics Live 198:  Four String Players from the KC Symphony - March 6
String quartet music played by four of Kansas City’s finest. After they open with a fresh performance of Mozart’s 14th String Quartet, they charmed the Polsky Theater audience with tunes by Puccini, Florence Price, Scott Joplin and Manuel Ponce.

Classics Live 199:  Matthew Liu, piano - March 13
This Ruel Joyce recitalist is a Lawrence high school student. Matthew Liu will astound you with his sensitive and mature playing. Join us for Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Sonata, Varieties by Jihao Quan, and the Reminiscences of Don Juan by Liszt.

Classics Live 200:  Sunflower Music Festival - March 20
Some interesting arrangements on a chamber music night. A Bach cello classic for oboe. A Prokofiev piano sonata for wind quintet! Plus the beloved Cesar Franck Piano Quintet in f Minor.

Classics Live 201:  Zsolt Eder, violin with Lucy Tan, piano - March 27
This Ruel Joyce Recital captures two sonatas the Beethoven wrote for violin and piano together – from Opus 23, the 4th Sonata. And from Opus 24, the 5th Sonata also known as the Spring Sonata.