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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Handel’s Messiah for Easter

Zev Kane

This week's Fanfare brings a whopping eight events to the table, including a performance from Yuja Wang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a concert with Michelle Cann & Imani Winds, two operas in Don Giovanni and L'Amico Fritz and more.

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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand

Jessica Griffin

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Yannick leads stirring works of loss, by Mahler and Jake Heggie

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major and a moving new work by Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters, performed by baritone Joshua Hopkins with a libretto by Margaret Atwood. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the program.
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Stéphane Denève leads a French program with Gautier Capuçon

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 6 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 7 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a France-focused program from the 2024/2025 season featuring Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, and the Cello Concerto written in 2008 by Guillaume Connesson, featuring soloist Gautier Capuçon.

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The Late Set Podcast

The Philly Sound

On the first episode of The Late Set, hosts Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen compare notes on Philadelphia's jazz legacy and state of play — with some help from an absolute authority, pianist Orrin Evans.
The Late Set: Trailer

Jazz is a conversation — and that’s what The Late Set is all about.

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Music for Holy Week is on WRTI

Spring is here and Holy Week is upon us. Tune into WRTI 90.1 starting on April 14 to hear our Holy Week programming, featuring Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Handel's Messiah and more.
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Handel’s Messiah for Easter

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a complete concert performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023/2024 season, with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a quartet of stellar soloists.
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Celebrate Passover with WRTI

WRTI brings you special music for Passover on Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13, including our annual broadcasts of A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman and The Passover Story with Theodore Bikel and the Western Wind Ensemble.