WXXI is proud to offer you concerts approved for release from the current season of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. The 2025-26 Broadcast season begins June 15, 2026 and runs through September 28, 2026. The entire series will then repeat October 5, 2026 through January 18, 2027. The live performances are captured by recording engineers Dave Sluberski, Alan Bise, and Bernd Gottinger and hosted and produced by WXXI Classical morning host Brenda Tremblay.
You'll hear what the crowd hears in live performances — interviews recorded during the pre-concert chats with conductors and guest artists, hosted by WXXI Classical's former Music Director Julia Figueras. Content from these interviews is incorporated into the radio broadcasts, giving the listener a sense of being in the performance hall.
Broadcast of RPO Concerts on WXXI Classical is made possible by a grant from Dr. Ralph Jozefowicz, honoring classical music in Rochester.
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WXXI Classical is your source for concerts from the RPO's 2025-26 season. -
WXXI Classical is your exclusive source of broadcast concerts from the RPO's 2025-26 season. -
WXXI is proud to offer you a new season RPO concerts Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. -
This concert was captured in December 2024 in Kodak Hall, Rochester, NY. -
"It's so enticing. It's got so much variety. You're just swept away, you continually have this wonderful sense of the waves." ~ Peter Oundjian, guest conductor -
"I just love the Hostias movement. It's a miracle to me how people write things like that." - Eric Townell, ROS Artistic Director -
"When I first heard this piece, I was captured straight away by its freshness, originality, and the courage of the young person who wrote it." - Simon Trpčeski -
Bernstein’s "Serenade" for violin sings of love, with five movements based on soliloquies by Greek philosophers. -
"It's my absolute favorite symphony to conduct on the podium, because it's a very intensely personal symphony." ~ Andreas Delfs on Brahms' Fourth -
"Sibelius can write music that sound like light better than any other composer. " - Andreas Delfs
