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 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.

Classics Live 217:  Chamber Music from Sunflower // Dec 5
A French suite for four French horns opens this penultimate night of the 2024 Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka. Also from this past June, Angels in Flight: a Triptych in Three Panels. Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, plus a special encore by festival pianist David Allen Wehr.

Classics Live 218:  Two Sonatas for Cello and Piano // Dec 12
The Kansas City Symphony’s cellist Mark Gibbs teams up with Park University’s pianist Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich for two sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, written 71 years apart.

Holiday Vespers from The University of Kansas // Dec 19
This yearly event will have you singing along to familiar carols, and wondering at the beauty of the choirs, orchestras, bands and soloists as KU’s music department comes together to offer their holiday best. Celebrating 100 years of KU Vespers, the forces are strong with alumni also!
 
Classics Live 219:  Sunflower Music Festival Finale // Dec 26
Concluding its festival of firsts, Antony Walker’s Sunflower Music Festival Chamber Orchestra offers Bach’s First Brandenburg Concerto, and Brahms’ First Symphony.

Classics Live 220:  Soprano Stella Markou with pianist Ellen Sommer // Jan 2
KU’s Professor of Voice, Stella Markou has picked a splendid bouquet of dreamy and exciting songs. Listen for an aria from Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Song to the Moon by Dvorak, Poems in the Form of Songs by Joaquin Turina, and much more.