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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