The New York Philharmonic Announces Details Of Upcoming National Radio Broadcasts

In April 2010, The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-Winner Alec Baldwin - begins with Jeffrey Kahane leading the Orchestra from the piano in Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 24, and 25. The next week features the New York Philharmonic's debut in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 16, 2009, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Emanuel Ax as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. On the third broadcast, Antonio Pappano leads the Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 31, Paris; Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, with Joshua Bell as soloist; and Brahms's Symphony No. 4. The April broadcasts conclude with Riccardo Muti conducting Mozart's Symphony No. 34; Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 2, G.479, with Principal Cello Carter Brey as soloist; and Schubert's Symphony No. 4, Tragic.

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on 105.9 FM WQXR Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. [Check local listings]. The show also airs on XM Satellite Radio's XM Classics Channel XM 110 Wednesdays at 9:00 pm ET.

Concerts are available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are produced and syndicated to 295 outlets nationwide by the WFMT Radio Network. Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, WFMT's Mark Travis is the broadcast producer, and New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer and music producer. 

The New York Philharmonic's first Live National radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930, over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday, Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic, since 2002, has shared its radio broadcast with a worldwide audience through its Website, nyphil.org. In 2004, the New York York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts,
recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the first ever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season. The New York Philharmonic This Week is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation.