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 211:  Sunflower Music Festival chamber ensembles // June 5
Join us for duo pianists Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr playing Chopin. Plus a Shostakovich string quartet, a Requiem for three cellos, plus the Dvorak G Major String Quintet.

Classics Live 132:  JoAnne Faletta with SMF Orchestra // June 12
This year’s SMF opens Friday June 20th, and JoAnne Faletta will be here to direct the Wednesday and second Saturday night concerts. This week’s Classics Live brings you opening night from the summer of 2021 when she was last here.

Classics Live 213:  Chamber Music 2024 Sunflower Music Festival // June 19
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 // June 26
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.