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 213: Chamber Music 2024 Sunflower Music Festival // Nov 7
Beethoven’s “Harp” Quartet, then a Wind Quartet scored for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. Plus a lively Tarantelle for Flute Oboe and Piano.
Classics Live 214: Ruel Joyce Recital for Cello and Piano // Nov 14
Eman Chalshotori, cello, plus pianist John Livingston, make a great chamber music collaboration. Hear their musical dialogues in first a sonata by Shostakovich, and then Brahms.
Classics Live 215: More Firsts with Sunflower Music Festival // Nov 21
Continuing their season theme of featuring firsts. Haydn’s First Symphony. Beethoven’s First Symphony. Plus Mozart’s first, well, only, Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra.
Classics Live 216: Clarinets Alive! // Nov 28
Who knew music for two clarinets together could be so much fun. Listen for music by Ingrid Stolzel and Forrest Pierce played by KU’s Clarinet Professor Stephanie Zelnick along with her friend Mariam Adam. Together they’re called The Adzel Duo.
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From June 2024 in Topeka. Antony Walker directs the Sunflower Music Festival Chamber Orchestra for the First Symphonies of Haydn and Beethoven, plus Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto. -
Shostakovich from 1934, and then Brahms from 1886. -
A Sunflower Music Festival 2024 Chamber Music Night. -
Although this is Destiny's show from 2023, it's perfect for this year's Halloween! -
Chopin for two pianos. Popper's Requiem for three cellos. And Dvorak's G Major String Quintet. -
Check our their Ruel Joyce Recital before you hear and see them on Live Day October 25th! They are playing at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium at noon. You can attend in person, or just listen on the radio. -
The theme of the 2024 season was FIRSTS. Here's Opening Night from Friday, June 21st with the SMF Chamber Orchestra directed by Antony Walker. -
Ruel Joyce Recital from JCCC of Ho Anthony Ahn and Jeffrey Savage -
This Ruel Joyce Recital features all modern music for sax and piano, including Vincent Ho's 'Whimsical Sketches of Fanciful Birds' -
Violinist Chiafei Lin and pianist Karen Savage play the first and last violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg in this Ruel Joyce Recital at JCCC.
