Classical Music with Joe Goetz
3 p.m.-7 p.m. Weekdays
Afternoon Classics
Mozart's "Prague" Symphony, choral works by Eric Whitacre, an hour of musical "X-Men," and Chopin's 3rd and final piano sonata.
Afternoon Classics
A classic Fritz Reiner/Chicago SO/Van Cliburn performance of Brahms, and two important 20th century works by Satie and Bartok featured today.
Afternoon Classics
Yesterday it was a prade of 9th symphonies...today its 4th symphonies. We'll celebrate the birthday of Claudio Abbado with the fourth symphonies of Brahms and Beethoven, and hear some gorgeous guitar music from Venezuela.
Afternoon Classics
The parade of the Ninth Symphonies continues with Dvorak's 9th, plus a piano concerto by John Field and favorites by Sibelius and Allegri.
Afternoon Classics
Krystian Zimerman plays a masterpiece from the 19th century: Liszt's B Minor sonata, plus Britten's 5 Flower Songs, a great late Haydn symphony, and a new recording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata done by Garrick Ohlsson.
Afternoon Classics
Dvorak's Legends, Edvard Grieg's lone string quartet, and plenty of other music for a Monday afternoon.
Afternoon Classics
Another busy day of pledging...thanks for all your support...again, in thanks, we'll have a 6 pm hour filled with gorgeous chamber works by composers such as Ravel and Schubert.
Afternoon Classics
Keep the phone calls coming! Thanks for all your support....we'll hear Sibelius's 3rd symphony this evening at 6:30 to give you a breather from the pledge talk.
Afternoon Classics
Pulling out all the stops in hopes that you'll pledge today...thanks to all that have done so! Francis Poulenc also pulled out all the stops in his Concerto for Two Pianos...we'll hear it today in the 4 o'clock hour.
Afternoon Classics
Thanks for all your continued support! Music this afternoon by Ravel, Stravinsky, Arnold, and many more...
Afternoon Classics
Music close to my heart, and music hopefully that will hit home with you, too....thanks again for all your support today!
Afternoon Classics
Going Green for our Green Membership drive with music from the natural world by Dvorak, Byrd, Beethoven, Smetana, and more. Thanks for all your support!
Afternoon Classics
A stormy day with stormy music...Richard Strauss's "Macbeth," Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude" and the turbulent String Quartet #3 by Tchaikovsky featured today.
Afternoon Classics
Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto, Nielsen's 6th Symphony (it's his birthday today...), and plenty more on a hot and humid afternoon.
Afternoon Classics
Rachmaninoff's Sonata for Cello and Piano, a work that was greatly overshadowed by his second piano concerto, finished and published at around the same time. Also, Frederick Delius's Florida Suite, in anticipation of the hot and humid weather we'll be seeing thsi weekend.
Afternoon Classics
Music written as early as 1600 and as recently as 1981 featured today, as well as Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto and his motet "O Vos Omnes."
Afternoon Classics
Traveling to Italy with Richard Strauss, to Spain with Maurice Ravel, and all around the world of classical music today.
Afternoon Classics
Beethoven's 7th Symphony, Arvo Part's "Fratres," performed by the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, and a "brass bonanza" by Robert Schumann.