WXXI is proud to offer you concerts from the current season of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, upon the approval of the RPO musicians. The '24-'25 RPO Broadcast season begins May 19 and runs through August 18. The entire series will then repeat August 25 through November 24, 2025. The live performances are captured by recording engineers Dave Sluberski, Alan Bise, and Bernd Gottinger and hosted and produced by Classical 91.5 morning host Brenda Tremblay.
Complementing the broadcast concerts are interviews recorded during the pre-concert chats with conductors and guest artists, hosted by WXXI Classical 91.5's retired 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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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 -
"We are entering into that magical, mystical world filled with magnificent perfume." - Pianist Joyce Yang -
"It is a very intense dessert. It's almost like a protein yogurt, and it is packed. It is absolutely packed!" - Stewart Goodyear on Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 -
"We have constantly to be interacting and me guessing what's coming. What is he going to do? (We must) be ready for anything that he may decide to do at the last moment." - Guest conductor Maximiano Valdés. -
"Everybody knows the first four bars, but there's another half hour of gorgeous music after that!" - Andreas Delfs on Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra -
"Peter and the Wolf allows those of us who don't often attend classical music performances to kind of have an inroad, a bridge to this glorious music." ~ Thomas Warfield -
“When we listen to this music, we're not sure where we are exactly. Are we back there, or are we in his time? And that makes it quite magical.” - JoAnne Falletta on Respighi’s Fountains of Rome. -
When Natasha plays the Shostakovich piano concerto, Maestro Andreas Delfs says, we are in heaven.
