Radio Broadcasts
LA Phil on Classical California KUSC and WFMT Radio Network
The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Classical California KUSC continue their annual radio broadcast partnership, reaching listeners across Southern California. This broadcast series, hosted by Classical California’s Brian Lauritzen and recorded during the LA Phil’s 2024/25 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, pairs the orchestra with an impressive roster of guest artists and conductors, showcasing an eclectic repertoire that includes world premieres from composers Nico Muhly, Julia Adolphe, Joseph Pereira, Sunghyun Lee, Kay Kyurim Rhie, and Texu Kim. Through the organizations’ ongoing partnership with WFMT and the WFMT Radio Network, the 2025 broadcast series will also be syndicated nationwide.
The first concert in the 2025 broadcast series will air locally on KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night program, the station’s weekly local concert spotlight, on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 7:00pm. It will feature LA Phil Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic and violinist Leonidas Kavakos in a program of works by Johannes Brahms.
This series is made possible through the endowed LA Phil Broadcast Program Fund, generously supported by the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
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2025 Schedule of Broadcasts
SoCal Sunday Nights at 7pm on Classical California KUSC
Programs and artists subject to change
KUSC AIR DATE: April 6, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2025
RECORD DATES: December 7-8, 2024
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Leonidas Kavakos appears courtesy of Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment.
KUSC AIR DATE: April 13, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: October 14, 2025
RECORD DATES: January 16 & 18, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Philippe Jordan, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
BACH Air
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
KUSC AIR DATE: April 20, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: October 21, 2025
RECORD DATES: January 24-25, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Alexandre Kantorow, piano
Denis Bouriakov, flute
David Rejano Cantero, trombone
Matthew Howard, percussion
Robert deMaine, cello
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3
Nico MUHLY Concerto Grosso (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
KUSC AIR DATE: April 27, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2025
RECORD DATES: January 30 & February 2, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Verneri Pohjola, trumpet
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
SAARIAHO HUSH (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
KUSC AIR DATE: May 4, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: November 4, 2025
RECORD DATES: February 21-22, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
MAHLER Blumine
MAHLER Symphony No. 10: Adagio
MAHLER Selections from Lieder und Gesänge and Des Knaben Wunderhorn
KUSC AIR DATE: May 11, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: November 11, 2025
RECORD DATES: March 7-8, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
A. MAHLER Five Songs
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 5
KUSC AIR DATE: May 18, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: November 18, 2025
RECORD DATES: March 15-16, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Joana Mallwitz, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Marko NIKODIJEVIC GHB/tanzaggregat
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, “The Great”
KUSC AIR DATE: May 25, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: November 25, 2025
RECORD DATES: April 25-26, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
Yeol Eum Son, piano
Anders HILLBORG Sound Atlas (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24
NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”
KUSC AIR DATE: June 1, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: December 2, 2025
RECORD DATES: May 3-4, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Bryce DESSNER Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
KUSC AIR DATE: June 8, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: December 9, 2025
RECORD DATES: May 16-17, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Seth Parker Woods, cello
GRANADOS Tres danzas españolas
Julia ADOLPHE Chrysalis (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
RAVEL Boléro
KUSC AIR DATE: June 15, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: December 16, 2025
RECORD DATES: May 24-25, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Caroline SHAW The Observatory (LA Phil commission)
GERSHWIN Concerto in F
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
KUSC AIR DATE: June 22, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: December 23, 2025
RECORD DATES: May 29 & 31, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Matthew Howard, percussion
HERRMANN Suite from Vertigo
Joseph PEREIRA Percussion Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
KUSC AIR DATE: June 29, 2025
WFMT RELEASE DATE: December 30, 2025
RECORD DATES: June 6, 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Hankyeol Yoon, conductor
Sunwook Kim, piano
Yura Lee, viola
Sunghyun LEE new work for orchestra (world premiere LA Phil commission)
Kay Kyurim RHIE new work for orchestra (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Texu KIM Viola Concerto “Ko-Oh” (world premiere of revised work, LA Phil commission)
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1