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 218:  Two Sonatas for Cello and Piano — July 24
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.

Classics Live 219:  Sunflower Music Festival Finale — Jul 31
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 — August 7th
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.