WQXR

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WQXR is New York City’s only all-classical music station, immersing listeners in the city’s rich musical life on-air at 105.9FM, online at WQXR.org, and in person through live events and performances. WQXR presents new and landmark classical recordings, as well as live concerts from New York City’s concert halls and performance venues, and broadcasts essential destination programs including Carnegie Hall Live, Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, New York Philharmonic This Week, New York in Concert, This Week with Yannick, and the Young Artists Showcase. WQXR also produces podcasts that reach new audiences for the artform: Every Voice with Terrance McKnight, The NY Phil Story: Made in New York, The Open Ears Project, Helga, and—in partnership with the Metropolitan Opera—the critically acclaimed opera podcast, Aria Code. As a public radio station, WQXR is supported through the generosity of its members, donors, and sponsors, making classical music relevant, accessible, and inspiring for all.

Series


Latest Pieces

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The third installment of the Concerts from the Frick series features mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, with works from the English, French and It...

Bought by WCNY, KTXK, KPIP-LP, WDPR, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder first came to world-wide recognition at the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition in Poland, where he won Seco...

Bought by WCNY, KTXK, KPIP-LP, WDPR, RNZ Concert and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In the first concert of the 15-16 Frick season, Montreal-based baroque ensemble Pallade Musica performs works taken from a concert program on the C...

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', KTXK, Troy Public Radio, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Host Nadia Sirota travels to Detroit to perform the US premiere of Nico Muhly's viola concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Le...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:53
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This bonus track is a world premiere recording of Thorvaldsdottir's piano work "Scape." "Scape," like many of Anna's works, uses extended techni...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
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This movement was born in 1981, when Ingram Marshall wrote a string quartet for the Kronos Quartet called Voces Resonae.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:07
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This recording of Kaija Saariaho's piano trio "Light and Matter" was taped live at the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress in 2015 by th...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 18:43
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Stringsongs is Monk's first string quartet. Written in 2005, the piece was premiered by the Kronos Quartet. Until now, however, no recording of t...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 24:28
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Building on a long-standing collaborative relationship, Marcos Balter wrote "Intercepting a Shivery Light" for the Anubis Quartet, a saxophone ense...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 17:37
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In 2012, the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus commissioned the future Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw to write a new work f...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 13:49