Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Holst’s “The Planets” conducted by Zubin Mehta and Respighi’s “Roman Festivals” and “The Pines of Rome” conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the first program in a new season from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Manfred Honeck leads the group in Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”. Also on the program a collaborative composition by five Pittsburgh composers called “The Elements”.

Enjoy recordings of Wagner and Holst by the pioneer conductor Albert Coates.

Learn more about these composers, and others, who wrote wordless choruses. 

The headline should more accurately be put as “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” by Debussy, and “The Planets” by Holst