Classical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Classical WSMRClassical WSMR - Florida's Classical Music Station
Classical WSMR, 89.1 and 103.9, based in west central Florida, features the finest performances of classical music, 24 hours a day, with special features and live performances by internationally acclaimed musicians. The station is also available online at www.wsmr.org and on HD radio on WUSF 89.72.
2019 - 2020
Classical WSMR, 89.1 and 103.9, based in west central Florida, features the finest performances of classical music, 24 hours a day, with special features and live performances by internationally acclaimed musicians. The station is also available online at www.wsmr.org and on HD radio on WUSF 89.72.
2019 - 2020
Original Broadcast: July 10, 2025
Original Broadcast: February 5, 2025
Original Broadcast: January 22, 2025
Original Broadcast: November 22, 2024
Original Broadcast - October 22, 2024
Original Broadcast; July 10, 2024
Original Broadcast: July 5, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 18, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 11, 2024
Original Broadcast: June 5, 2024
Original Broadcast: April 8, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 19, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 7, 2024
Original Broadcast: March 5, 2024
Join Russell Gant for a preview as he welcomes pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Iranian composer Farhad Poupel along with Key Chorale’s director Joseph Caulkins.
Join WSMR for Midday Mozart Live with singers from Opera Tampa performing highlights of Mozart’s Don Giovanni from the Tampa studio.
Original Broadcast - September 20, 2023
Original Broadcast - September 6, 2023
Check out another live performance on Classical WSMR with young artists from the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival. This is a chance to learn about how the festival plays an important part in the artistic development of these young pianists and to hear them perform.
Original Broadcast - July 7, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 20, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 13, 2023
Original Broadcast: June 7, 2023
Original Broadcast: May 16, 2023
WSMR Live Performance: April 13, 2023
Pianist Wu Han, violinist Chad Hoopes, violist Matthew Lipman, and violinist Kristin Lee performed music from the upcoming La Música Chamber Music Festival.
Opera Tampa brought in singers from their upcoming production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.
Original Broadcast: February 23, 2023
Original Broadcast: February 20, 2023
USF piano professor Eunmi Ko joined Bethany Cagle to talk about a project she’s working on and performed a few selections live on the radio!
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR’s final full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it’s Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco from a production from March of 2018.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR’s next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it’s Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet from a production from March of 2020. Funding for this program was provided through the Florida Department Of State Division Of Arts & Culture.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR’s next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This one is a double bill with a performance of Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Join Russell Gant for Classical WSMR’s next full-length broadcast from the Sarasota Opera! This week it’s a performance of Rossini’s La Scala di Seta (The Silken Ladder) . Listen to WSMR’s full-length broadcast at wsmr.org for a limited time.
Join Russell Gant for live music from Sarasota Opera as he welcomes cast members from their production of Cimarosa’s opera “The Secret Marriage.”
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev for October 4, 2022
Join host Russell Gant for Our Tuesday Concert with the Florida Orchestra. Michael Francis conducts Robert Levin’s completion of the Mozart Requiem featuring the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Originally broadcast on September 27th at 8:00 PM.
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Shchedrin & Rodrigo for September 20, 2022
Modern Notebook interview with Taylor Irelan
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky for September 13, 2022
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Beethoven and Jake Runestad for September 6, 2022
Our Tuesday Concert with The Florida Orchestra Concert Broadcast - Mozart and Mahler for August 30, 2022
Modern Notebook - Ann DuHamel Interview
Live Performance – Pianists from the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival – June 30th, 2022
Live Performance – Pianists from the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival – July 7th, 2022
Tuesday Concert with Sarasota Orchestra 2022 Concert Broadcasts - Prokofiev and Mendelssohn for July 5, 2022
Live Performance with violinist Francesca Anderegg
Live Performance with cellist Brinton Avril Smith
Russell Gant welcomed two faculty members from the Sarasota Music Festival to our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast Studio. Pianists Ya-Fei Chuang, and Robert Levin will played some Chopin, Mozart, and Faure, and talked about this year’s exciting festival.
WSMR Live In-Studio Performance: Joseph Holt
Modern Notebook Interview CAMP for September 26, 2021
Punta Gorda Symphony String Quartet | Mozart - Divertimento in D major, K.136-125a, I. Allegro 8/7/2021
Punta Gorda Symphony String Quartet | Giuseppe Verdi - Selections from La Traviata, I. Prelude 8/7/2021
Punta Gorda Symphony String Quartet | Giacomo Puccini - Selections from Madame Butterfly 8/7/2021
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Nino Rota - A Time For Us
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Amy Beach - Pastorale
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Vivace
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Andante
Punta Gorda Symphony Wind Quintet | Quintette pour instruments à vent - Allegro con moto
Modern Notebook - Juhi Bansal and Julia Mermelstein Interview
White Dust is a string quartet by composer Bradley Mikesell. The quartet uses several motifs and ideas which come from Mikesell's solos for the constituent instruments. The entire quartet expresses very exciting ideas, and uses the string medium in a unique and innovative way.
Tampa Homegrown | No. 3 "Death" from Sappho Fragments - G. Blake Harrison-Lane
embalmed, enshrined, or cast out among is a cello solo written by composer Michael Standard, which addresses themes of mortality, personal decision-making, and drama through metaphor and performance techniques. It was originally written for Josh Thornton, and is performed here by Eduard Teregulov.
Modern Notebook - Judith Lang Zaimont Interview
Christmas with The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay (2018) Live Concert Recording & Broadcast
Key Chorale | Mozart Meets Radiohead
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part II - 3 of 3
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part II - 2 of 3
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part II - 1 of 3
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part I - 3 of 3
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part I - 2 of 3
Key Chorale | Mendelssohn’s Elijah Part I - 1 of 3
Modern Notebook: NMC Interview
Sarasota Opera - Achieved Interview & Performance | Carmen - March 07, 2018
Sarasota Opera - Achieved Interview & Performance | Sarasota Opera Barber of Seville - October 30, 2018
Sarasota Opera - Achieved Interview & Performance | La Boheme - March 05, 2020
The St. Petersburg Opera Company will start its 11th season performing Verdi next month. Bethany Cagle got a preview of what’s to come when Maestro Mark Sforzini and singers from the St. Petersburg Opera perform highlights of Verdi’s Il Trovatore.
St. Pete Opera Archived Performances & Interviews - December 19, 2014
by Sergei Rachmaninov
In memory of Ginger Meidel
Recorded live, March 31, 2012 at the University of South Florida School of Music Concert Hall, Tampa
by Kim André Arnesen
Sponsored by Larry & Betsy Clement
Recorded May, 2016 at the University of South Florida School of Music Concert Hall, Tampa
Traditional/arr. Craig Courtney
Featuring Sharon Scott, vocalist
Sponsored by James B. & Jo Ann Heck
Recorded live, March 31, 2012 at the University of South Florida School of Music Concert Hall, Tampa
Classical Performance - Perlman Music Program Suncoast - May 12, 2015
Classical Performance - Perlman Music Program, Suncoast - October 8, 2015
Classical Performance - Perlman Music Program Suncoast - October 21, 2014
Punta Gorda Symphony Archived Performance : Kenneth Fuchs | Piano Concerto "Spiritualist" 3/8/2020
Punta Gorda Symphony Archived Performance : Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor – I. Allegro molto appassionato, David Kim, violin
Punta Gorda Symphony Archived Performance : Mozart | The Marriage of Figaro Overture 2/9/2020
Sarasota Orchestra performed the Gliere Harp Concerto with acclaimed harpist Xavier de Maistre, and we bring you a little preview of that concert on Classical WSMR! Join Russell Gant as he welcomes his guest Xavier de Maistre to our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast Studio for live music and conversation.
The Ying Quartet and Sarasota Orchestra principal clarinetist Bharat Chandra stopped by our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast Studio to play for you live on the radio! Hear the music of Mozart and Brahms, as well as conversation with Bethany Cagle.
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews -Bridge Trio
Sarasota Orchestra presented a program of Russian masterworks including Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, played by Estonian pianist Mihkel Poll. He joined Bethany Cagle to play a few selections in our Sarasota studio.
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - William Wolfram
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - David Greilsammer
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews -Ray Chen
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - Trumpeter and Singer Byron Stripling
Between rehearsals for a concert featuring the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2, Sarasota Orchestra concertmaster Daniel Jordan stopped by our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast studio to play for you live.
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - Leif Bjaland
Coleen Cook welcomes Chloe Hanslip, whom some critics have called the most exciting violinist to come out of England. Hanslip performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Sarasota Orchestra and stopped by our Sarasota studio to play works for solo violin, including music by Paganini and Peteris Plakadis.
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - Orion Weiss
On a late-night drive towards what might be a deadly encounter, a liberal writer grapples with his paradoxical interest in guns. Conceal and Carry delves into the psyche of a mass shooting victim's father, the cryptic history of the NRA, and how we go about giving up the gun.
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Archived Performances & Interviews - Sara Quartet
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Archived Performances & Interviews - Doori Na, Jeremiah Blacklow, Chloé Thominet, and Bryan Park
La Musica Archived Performances & Interviews - Derek Han, Laura Zarina, and Dmitri Atapine
La Musica Archived Performances & Interviews - Federico Agostini, Bruno Giuranna, and Antonio Menesses
Asolo Rep Theatre Archived Performances & Interviews - Matt Haimovitz
St. Pete Opera Archived Performances & Interviews - May 2017
Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival Archived Performances & Interviews - July 2015 Part 3
Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival Archived Performances & Interviews - July 2015 Part 2
Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival Archived Performances & Interviews - July 2015 Part 1
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Archived Performances & Interviews - Molly Carr & Yannick Rafalimanana
Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Archived Performances & Interviews - Rachel Lee Priday & David Kaplan
The Ariel Quartet was in Sarasota for part of The Perlman Music Programs Education Outreach Program. In addition to playing at a number of Manatee County Schools, they joined us for a performance and conversation with WSMR's Russell Gant.
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - Giora Schmidt
Sarasota Orchestra Archived Performances & Interviews - Philippe Quint
Join WSMR's Bethany Cagle as she welcomes musicians from Sarasota Orchestra for some live music by violinists Dan Jordan and Chung-Yon Hong and harpist Cheryl Losey. Listen to music from Bach's "Double” violin concerto with harp taking the role of the orchestra, and Massenet's "Meditation" from the opera Thaïs.
Modern Notebook: Interview with Bob McCormick
Modern Notebook: Interview with Eunmi Ko
This week’s Modern Notebook is another special edition of the show highlighting artists whose livelihoods have been disrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Tyler Kline will share music from 23 composers, plus ways that you can support them and others at this time.
The following is a list of ongoing artist relief funds accepting donations to distribute to composers and performers affected by the COVID-19 crisis: https://www.wsmr.org/modern-notebook-for-april-12-special-marathon/
WSMR Live Performance with Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival 2025 - July 10, 2025
July 21, 202530min 3sec
Original Broadcast: July 10, 2025