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Mondays at 9:00 pm on Classical WETA 90.9 FM

Tune in on Mondays at 9:00 pm for classical performances by top local musicians and ensembles, recorded at venues throughout the Washington area.

Previous broadcasts have included performances recorded at the Barns at Wolf Trap, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art.

Upcoming Broadcasts

Henri at 100: Mystery and Memory

Presented by the Phillips Collection
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 9:00pm

From The Phillips Collection Music Room, a University of Maryland Chamber Concert, featuring The Left Bank Quartet, pianists Rita Sloan, Larissa Dadova and Audrey Andrist, and flutist Aaron Goldman

Standing at the intersection of tonality, modality, and serialism, Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) came of age in France during the Second World War. He absorbed and mastered all the dominant strands of European musical tradition and garnered an esteemed reputation as a composer. Dutilleux created a new musical language of beauty, exoticism, and passion from the wreckage of postwar Europe. The UMD School of Music offers an engaging cross-disciplinary retrospective highlighting some of the composer’s most important works, presented with works of Debussy and Ravel, in celebration of Dutilleux’s centenary.

Featured performances:

  • CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Études, Pour les sonorités opposes

    Larissa Dedova, piano

  • CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Préludes, Book 2: La puerta del Vino; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice

    Larissa Dedova, piano

  • HENRI DUTILLEUX - Préludes pour piano: D’ombre et de silence; Sur un même accord; Le jeu des contraires

    Audrey Andrist plays piano and gives an introduction to the preludes with musical examples

  • MAURICE RAVEL - Chansons madécasses

    Delores Ziegler, mezzo soprano; Aaron Goldman, flute; Rita Sloan, piano; Eric Kutz, cello

  • HENRI DUTILLEUX - Ainsi la nuit: String Quartet

    Left Bank Quartet

Left Bank Quartet: David Salness and Sally McLain, violin; Katherine Murdock, viola; Eric Kutz, cello

Quatuor Ébène

Presented by the Candlelight Concert Society of Columbia, Maryland
Monday, October 2, 2017 - 9:00pm

Recent Broadcasts

Vadym Kholodenko, pianist

Presented by the Phillips Collection
Monday, September 18, 2017 - 9:00pm

Morgenstern Trio

Presented by the Phillips Collection
Monday, September 11, 2017 - 9:00pm

Carter Brey & Benjamin Pasternack

Presented by the Phillips Collection
Monday, September 4, 2017 - 9:00pm

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