SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 |  |
12:00am
Bob Christiansen
1:00am
Scott Blankenship
6:00am
Harmonia, with Angela Mariani
We’ll take a whirlwind musical tour of London this morning. We’ll see how royal patronage helped composers flourish through the centuries, and take a peek at some of the city's oldest and most renowned musical centers, including St. James's Palace and Westminster Cathedral.
7:00am
Sunday Baroque, with Suzanne Bona
Many musicians have been immortalized by their fellow creative artists in other disciplines with poems, statues and paintings. British portrait master Thomas Gainsborough used some of his musician friends as subjects, Robert Browning wrote a poem about an 18th-century Venetian musician, and Leonardo da Vinci painted a few of his musical contemporaries. This morning’s show will feature their music, and their stories.
11:00am
Mindy Ratner
1:00pm
Lynn Warfel
2:00pm
Carnegie Hall Live
Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in an all-Beethoven program. We’ll hear the symphonies #2 and 9, with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and soloists. Established in 1999 as a workshop for young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Arab countries, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been described by one of its members as “a human laboratory that can express to the whole world how to cope with each other.”
6:00pm
Deutsche Welle Festival
Leonard Slatkin conducts the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin in Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Dvorak’s Symphony #8, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Sol Gabetta is soloist in Bloch’s Hebrew Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.
8:00pm
Pittsburgh Symphony, with Jim Cunningham
Manfred Honeck conducts the music from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, and Yo-Yo Ma is soloist in Antonin Dvorak’s stirring Cello Concerto.
10:00pm
Valerie Kahler
