Classical WSMR, 89.1 and 103.9, based in west central Florida, features the finest performances of classical music, 24 hours a day, with special features and live performances by internationally acclaimed musicians. The station is also available online at www.wsmr.org and on HD radio on WUSF 89.72.
Guest conductor Shiyeon Sung leads a program [from this past January] celebrating Ravel's 150th birthday: featuring Boléro, his jazz-influenced Piano Concerto with Natasha Paremski, and music by Lili Boulanger.
Original Broadcast Date: July 2, 2025
The season opens with Giancarlo Guerrero's debut as music director designate, featuring violinist Vadim Gluzman in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and Dvořák's beloved New World Symphony.
Original Broadcast: June 16, 2025
Original Broadcast: June 2, 2025
WSMR Live Performance With Violinist Max Tann and Pianist Jung-A Bang - May 15, 2025
Original Broadcast: May 6, 2025
Original Broadcast: April 2, 2025
Original Broadcast: March 20, 2025
Original Broadcast: March 18, 2025
Original Broadcast: March 11, 2025
Original Broadcast: February 19, 2025
Original Broadcast: February 5, 2025
Original Broadcast: January 22, 2025
Original Broadcast: November 22, 2024
Original Broadcast - October 22, 2024
Original Broadcast: July 5, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 18, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 11, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 5, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 19, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 7, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 5, 2024
Join Russell Gant for a preview as he welcomes pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Iranian composer Farhad Poupel along with Key Chorale's director Joseph Caulkins.
Join WSMR for Midday Mozart Live with singers from Opera Tampa performing highlights of Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Tampa studio.
Original Broadcast - September 20, 2023
Original Broadcast - September 6, 2023
Check out another live performance on Classical WSMR with young artists from the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival. This is a chance to learn about how the festival plays an important part in the artistic development of these young pianists and to hear them perform.
Original Broadcast - July 7, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 20, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 13, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 7, 2023
Original Broadcast: May 16, 2023
Max Tan, Sam Boutris, and Chelsea Wang will perform a concert at the Sarasota Art Museum featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, Bruch, and other gems of the chamber music repertoire revolving around the viola and clarinet. Elements of the instruments' singing, breathing, and speaking characteristics will be compared as the artists discuss their interplay—and exchangeability—in classical music.
Pianist Wu Han, violinist Chad Hoopes, violist Matthew Lipman, and violinist Kristin Lee performed music from the upcoming La Música Chamber Music Festival.
Opera Tampa brought in singers from their upcoming production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
Original Broadcast: February 23, 2023
Original Broadcast: February 20, 2023
USF piano professor Eunmi Ko joined Bethany Cagle to talk about a project she's working on and performed a few selections live on the radio!
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR's final full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it's Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco from a production from March of 2018.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR's next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it's Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet from a production from March of 2020. Funding for this program was provided through the Florida Department Of State Division Of Arts & Culture.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR's next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This one is a double bill with a performance of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR's next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it's a performance of Rossini's La Scala di Seta (The Silken Ladder) . Listen to WSMR's full-length broadcast at wsmr.org for a limited time.
Join Russell Gant for live music from Sarasota Opera as he welcomes cast members from their production of Cimarosa's opera “The Secret Marriage.”
Join Russell Gant for Our next Tuesday Concert with the Florida Orchestra. Michael Francis conducts the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Prokofiev with guest pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and the Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky. Originally broadcast Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 8:00 PM on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9, online at wsmr.org.
Join host Russell Gant for Our Tuesday Concert with the Florida Orchestra. Michael Francis conducts Robert Levin's completion of the Mozart Requiem featuring the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Originally broadcast on September 27th at 8:00 PM.
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Shchedrin & Rodrigo for September 20, 2022 Listen as host Russell Gant presents Our Tuesday Concert with the Florida Orchestra. Michael Francis conducts the Carmen Suite by Shchedrin, and the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo with guest guitarist Milos. That's Tuesday night at 8:00 on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9, online at wsmr.org.
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