BPO summer concert broadcast schedule 2025

BTPM Classical presents the Buffalo Philharmonic summer concert broadcasts, featuring the best performances from the 2024-25 concert season recorded in Kleinhans Music Hall. Host Peter Hall is joined by BPO Music Director JoAnn Falletta, who provides personal commentary on each of the concerts and the musical pieces she has chosen for broadcast. Listen to the 10 summer concerts at 7 p.m. Tuesdays throughout the summer.

July 1 | American Celebration | Length (67:30)
Copland: Rodeo: 4 Dance Episodes
Lukas Foss: Symphony No. 1
Gershwin: An American in Paris

July 8 | Newlyweds | Length (67:00)
Ibert: Escales
Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess
Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping Beauty
Respighi: Church Windows*

*Respighi's wife, a student of Gregorian chant, inspired him to write Church Windows

July 15 | Mozart Requiem | Length (61:00)
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart: Requiem

July 22 | Fantastic Tales | Length (82:00)
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Debussy: Nocturnes
Ranjbaran: Violin Concerto
Nikki Chooi, violin
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale

July 29 | In the German Tradition | Length (72:00)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Kenneth Broberg, piano
Brahms: Symphony No. 3

August 5 | American Greats | Length (70:00)
Copland: El Salon Mexico
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Joyce Yang, Piano
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances

August 12 | Lights – Electric and Northern | Length (78:00)
Hagen, Daron: City of Light
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Andrea Cicalese, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

August 19 | Faraway Lands | Length (80:00)
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Ravel: Scheherazade
Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
Stravinsky: Divertimento from Fairy's Kiss

August 26 |Tchaikovsky! | Length (80:00)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

September 2 | Musical Personalities | Length (77:00)
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Strauss, R: Ein Heldenleben