LPO Radio Hour

Puccini and grand opera meet Parisian bohemian life.

A composer learns about our solar system, and great music appears.

Is there such a thing as too much beauty in one radio broadcast? Stay tuned as we attempt to find out...It took Brahms more than twenty one years to write…

"Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral."So wrote Leonard Bernstein about the bizarre, masterful,…

The grand 'Emperor' concerto comes roaring back to vivd high-fidelity life via a thrilling performance from one of the century's great pianists. On this…

Think Beethoven wrote the only famous 5th symphony? Think again. On today's show, we hear the great fifth symphony of Tchaikovsky. A piece written after…

What happens when a Russian composer gets ahold of the classic Golden Age Islamic tales?On this program, we devote the entire show to Scheherezade, the…

Is the greatest waltz of all time written by the Frenchman Maurice Ravel? In the aftermath of World War I, Ravel writes one of the great orchestral…

Mendelssohn reckons with his Jewish past and his Christian (or is it?) present.The centerpiece of this program is Mendelssohn's Reformation symphony.…

Shakespeare and Holberg as musical influences bookend the beloved Haffner symphony of Mozart.We explore the rich world of plays inspiring the musical…