Carnegie Hall Live

Airs as scheduled on 105.9 FM WQXR

WQXR and Carnegie Hall in collaboration with American Public Media (APM) present a series of twelve national broadcasts live from Carnegie Hall. The 2012-13 season featured a range of orchestras, small ensembles and soloists including the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; the pairing of opera singers Renée Fleming and Susan Graham; and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, led by Daniel Barenboim.

Other highlights included the Belcea Quartet; the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; pianist Jonathan Biss and the Elias String Quartet; the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas; the Staatskapelle Dresden with Christian Thielemann; Ensemble Matheus; and a performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos, part of a creative learning project from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.

In addition to the performance, each broadcast included artist interviews during intermission, live chats at WQXR.org, and questions from Twitter (use the hashtag #CHLive). The series will be available in the New York area on 105.9 FM and streaming on WQXR.org. Carnegie Hall Live will be carried nationally in select cities.

The 2012-13 season has ended; the next broadcast season will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Listen: Staatskapelle Dresden Performs Bruckner's Eighth

Friday, April 19, 2013

On Friday, the Staatskapelle Dresden closed the 2012-13 Carnegie Hall Live series on an epic note, with Bruckner's Symphony No. 8.

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On-Demand Audio: Jonathan Biss & the Elias Quartet

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Jonathan Biss and the Elias Quartet performed music by Mozart, Janacek, Schumann and the Brooklyn-based composer Timothy Andres. Listen to the full concert now.

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The Berlin Philharmonic Plays Mahler's Symphony No. 2

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Today at 8 pm, tune in for an encore broadcast of the Berlin Philharmonic performing Mahler's Symphony No. 2.

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Listen: Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos

Sunday, March 10, 2013

On Sunday, WQXR presented a live broadcast of Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos, a work that draws on Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music in its re-telling of the passion story.

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On-Demand Audio: Ensemble Matheus Plays Handel & Vivaldi

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

On Wednesday, the French period-instrument ensemble performed music by Handel, Vivaldi and Nicola Antonio Porpora in this wide-ranging program at Zankel Hall.

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On-Demand Audio: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Sunday, February 03, 2013

The West-Eastern Divan finished its Carnegie Hall series with a broadcast of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 9.

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