Classics Live
Thursdays at 7pm
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.
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Guest conductor Alex Klein leads the orchestra through Haydn's 2nd Symphony and Schumann's 2nd Symphony. -
Including the Brahms Sonata for Viola and Piano, plus Ravel's 2nd Sonata and the Bartok Romanian Folk Dances -
His thrilling performance of all four Brahms Ballades, and then his own suspenseful arrangment of Dukas' The Sorceror's Apprentice for solo piano. -
After the Topeka Symphony opens with the majestic Procession of the Nobles by Rimsky-Korsakov, they bring you Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. Plus a Gershwin encore from Chaeyoung Park! -
Their Doreen Maronde recital at JCCC. Music by York Bowen, William Sweeney, Pete Stollery and Benjamin Britten. -
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From their Fall 2024 Ruel Joyce Recital, recorded by KPR for Classics Live. -
The Ruel Joyce Recital of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and more -
Before Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, Kyle Wiley Pickett led the TSO in Narang Prangchoen's 2021 composition for two Thai instruments and orchestra called Sound Echo and Silence. -
A fresh lively and colorful recital of Schumann, Bach and Scriabin.
