Tagged: Mozart

Airs Thursday, April 4 at 11:00 a.m. "What I feel for Schumann goes beyond love and admiration," says Jonathan Biss. "The intensity of his passion for music, and his will to use music as a poetic and personal, yet fully realized and deeply expressive language strike me as the highest aims imaginable for a musician." On this program, part of his season-long focus on Mozart, Janácek, and Schumann, Biss joins members of the Elias String Quartet for Schumann's Piano Quartet.

Jonathan Biss, Piano;  Elias String Quartet;   Sara Bitlloch, Violin;   Donald Grant, Violin;   Martin Saving, Viola;  Marie Bitlloch, Cello

Airs Monday, April 1 at 11 a.m. This week conductor Mariss Jansons takes the podium to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 2; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36; and Johann Strauss’ “On the Beautiful Blue Danube.”

Airs Monday, February 4 at 11 a.m. The final episode in the series from this year's Lucerne Festival features the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Choir all under the direction of Claudio Abbado with soprano Juliane Banse, soprano Anna Prohska, alto Sara Mingardo, tenor Maximilian Schmitt, bass Rene Pape and Bruno Ganz as the narrator in Beethoven's Incidental music to Goethe's tragedy Egmont, and Mozart's Requiem in D minor.