Eunice Kim and Jinwoo Lee, who make up the duo "Arco e Tasto" or "Bow and Fingerboard," have released an album featuring the music of two 19th century German composers.

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The works on this album make for a complementary, powerful pairing; one that helps mark America’s 250th anniversary with skillfully composed and beautifully performed orchestral pieces created out of widely divergent lives.

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Japanese composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi has been packing concert halls around the world performing his own music, much of it written for the anime films produced by Studio Ghibli.

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This new DG recording includes two keyboard concertos: No. 9 (K. 271) and No. 22 (K. 482), both of which are in the key of E-flat.

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This week’s new release, “Fusions," from Russian-born pianist Nikolay Medvedev, features some wildly exciting and ear-catching music: Sophisticated and fun jazz in many permutations, challenging classical structures that require almost athletic virtuosity and some gorgeous, deeply emotional lyrical passages.

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WPR host Stephanie Elkins interviews Norman Gilliland, who retired from WPR on June 19, 2026.

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