Beethoven Satellite Network - Overnight Classical Music
Weekdays 11 p.m. - 5 a.m., Fridays 11 p.m. - 6 a.m., Saturdays 11 p.m. - 6 a.m.
Renowned performances of classical music from around the world. Hosted by Peter Van De Graaff. See playlists below.
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Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.
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The French pianists celebrate more than a half century of recording together with a triple-disc set containing many brand new tracks.
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Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
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Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.
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Sounds, Tears and Skins is a program of four new mini-operas by American composers: John Aylward, Yu-Hui Chang, David Dominique and Kate Soper performed by Ensemble Télémaque.
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The mischievous visionary offers a career-spanning set with nods to dogs, the stars and her late husband, Lou Reed.
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The song, penned before American Independence by a slave trader turned abolitionist, has remained a source of comfort, inspiration and redemption.
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Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.
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Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in The White Lotus. Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in a new limited TV series.
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The composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world.