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
August 14 2025 Classics Live 221: ZOFO! One piano, four hands. The audience at the Lied Center Pavilion in Lawrence was fascinated and thrilled by the ZOFO Duo. Before their cosmic conclusion with three of Holst’s Planets, they performed a world premiere that the Lied Center had commissioned to honor local classical friends Dave and Gunda Hiebert.
August 21 2025 Classics Live 222: The Topeka Symphony Orchestra. From their Puttin’ on the Ritz! Concert Season. With favorites Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and the Karelia Suite by Sibelius. With two amazing concerto pieces featuring trombonist extraordinaire Dr Denson Paul Pollard.
August 28 2025 Classics Live 223: The Sascha Groschang Quartet. This jazzy Ruel Joyce/Mareen Dorande recital we recorded at Johnson County Community college features a classical cellist, Sascha Groschange, with a jazz trio. Including the Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling.
September 4 2025 Classics Live 224: Topeka Symphony’s March Concert. With special guest artist, pianist Jon Nakamatsu, the Topeka Symphony sparkles through Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Also an earth-shaking performance of The Pines of Rome by Respighi, complete with birdcalls.
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Andrew Ouellette, piano. Ben Tervort, bass. Pat Adams, percussion. -
Schubert's 8th Symphony plus two great concertos for trombone. -
Check out their Lawrence concert of one piano/four hands magic. -
John Livingston accompanies Jayne Siemens for a wonderful bouquet of love songs from a recital called All the Things You Are. -
Coloratura soprano STELLA MARKOU sings us a powerful collection of great opera arias about the joys and the pains of being passionately in love. -
The last night of the SMF 2024 concerts in June 2024. Bach, Brahms and a special encore of Debussy's Clair d Lune -
This Ruel Joyce Recital we recorded at The Midwest Trust Center for the Performing Arts features two great cello and piano sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms. -
Another chamber music night from the 2024 Sunflower Music Festival. -
This fun-filled Ruel Joyce recital will have you craving clarinet duet music. -
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.
