Tune in to WHRO-FM 90.3 each Saturday at 8 p.m. for “This Just In,” the show that brings you three hours of recently released classical recordings, an opportunity to hear what’s new before it becomes part of the conversation.
This week, Raymond Jones opens with Johannes Brahms’s “Song of Destiny”, which sets a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin. Sir Thomas Beecham leads the Beecham Choral Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance drawn from Warner Classics’ 2025 comprehensive box of his complete stereo recordings.
We also reach the culmination of our exploration of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Shostakovich cycle under Gianandrea Noseda with Symphony No. 15, the composer’s final symphony.
From the Czech repertoire comes a fresh look at Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 and 72, performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the Czech Philharmonic.
Welsh string writing also takes the spotlight. Grace Williams’s “Elegy for Strings,” heard on the Rubicon album “Welsh Music for Strings” with Owain Arwel Hughes and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, offers lyrical intensity and quiet emotional depth.
And from the 2025 EM Records release “Fide et Literis,” we’ll hear Gustav Holst’s “St. Paul’s Suite” for strings, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Leigh O’Hara.
From newly remastered classics to freshly recorded symphonic cycles and recent orchestra releases, this week’s program offers plenty of reasons to tune in. It’s just released and coming your way this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. on WHRO-FM 90.3, and also online, with “This Just In.”
