Welcoming Summer on ‘This Just In’

Tune in every Saturday evening at 8:00 pm on WHRO-FM for “This Just In,” your three-hour guide through the latest additions to the classical music world. This week, Raymond Jones has carefully selected works reflecting summertime, nature in bloom, and celebration featuring four works from the 2025 BBC proms.
Let’s step right into the warm season with “Summer” from Haydn’s oratorio “The Seasons.” Sir Thomas Beecham conducts this vivid piece with warmth, energy, and characterful storytelling. From there, we’ll look back at the coronation of Elizabeth II with Malcolm Arnold’s festive and colorful ballet “Homage to the Queen,” which was created for the June 1953 coronation celebrations. Next, prepare for high emotional range with the technical demands of the Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor by Rachmaninoff, performed by Boris Giltberg. The program concludes with the Symphony No. 5 by English composer Ruth Gipps, a large-scale orchestral work written only four decades ago. Gipps’ final symphony is led by British conductor Rumon Gamba, who captures the music's vigor and lyricism. Listen closely to the final movement, which is quite unusual: it was conceived as a Missa brevis (short Mass) for orchestra, and although there is no choir, we can hear instruments imitating the shapes of vocal lines.
Join Raymond Jones for the first summer Saturday evening of new classical music releases of the season. Tune in to “This Just In" Saturday at 8:00 pm on WHRO-FM 90.3, or online through our Media Player.