Classical Score

Evan Keely chats with violinist Rachel Barton Pine about the 25th anniversary of her album Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries and her upcoming performance with the FSO.

A deep dive into the most interesting 18th-century composer Joseph Bologne, a showcase of music by St. Hildegard of Bingen, and more on special programs this week!

Opera Lafayette presents a program of Pergolesi whose enormous popularity during the era of Madame de Pompadour inspired the Guerre des Bouffons, an intellectual and artistic battle between partisans of Italian and French music.

Hear from Nicole Lacroix about February's NSO Showcase featuring two monumental symphonies written within two years of each other—Brahms' 4th and Mahler’s 1st symphony.

A new NSO Showcase program of Mahler and Brahms premieres this week, along with an iconic and archival production of Macbeth from the Metropolitan Opera, and more on our special programs this week.

American conductor James Gaffigan speaks with Linda Carducci about the upcoming program of Mozart, Schumann, and Dvořák with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Beatrice Rana speaks to us ahead of her upcoming album of Piano Concertos by Clara and Robert Schumann, and her performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto with the NSO.

Music lovers world-wide are celebrating Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday this year. The National Philharmonic brings the celebrations to the DMV with their program "Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday." Hear from Maestro Piotr Gajewski about this exciting program!

On this week's Choral Showcase, Bill Bukowski explores "New Voices, New Recordings" of Requiem music with settings of Lux Aeterna. Hear more from Bill about what to expect on this poignant program.

Evan Keely has a conversation with composer Joel Thompson about his work Seven Last Words of the Unarmed to be performed by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra on January 31 at the Kennedy Center.

From Samuel Barber to Pat Metheny, the saxophone quartet can play it all with elegance and style. Hear from our resident saxophonist, member of the Washington Saxophone Quartet, and host of Center Stage from Wolf Trap, Rich Kleinfeldt.

From a project reimagining Beethoven with 32 composers on Front Row Washington to Tchaikovsky's hidden secrets on his sixth and last symphony, WETA Classical offers a week of exciting special programs and more!