Living Classical with Tyler Kline for August 9-15, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Every living thing breathes – and in recent years, Katelyn Petersen writes, everything has struggled to: the environment suffocating from pollution, people from isolation and illness, the spirit from a lack of rest. In her piece Respire, the instruments breathe together as one, each with its own struggle along the way.

Then: At the southern tip of Baja California, granite arches mark the meeting of the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez–a place called Fin de la Tierra, Land's End. Jenni Brandon's clarinet concerto takes that name and makes the soloist a guide, leading us above and below the water through what Jacques Cousteau once called the world's aquarium.

Plus pieces by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Daniel Pesca, Dobrinka Tabakova, Barbara White, Wang Lu, Anthony R. Green, and Lisa Illean.

Featuring performances by violinist Er-Gene Kahng; pianist Daniel Pesca; clarinetist Jeremy Reynolds with Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava; GBSR Duo; Brass for Uncommon Times; BBC Concert Orchestra; Borderlands Ensemble; Boston Modern Orchestra Project; and fivebyfive.

Join Tyler Kline for this edition of Living Classical – exploring the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• Filter by Daniel Bernard Roumain

• Daniel Pesca’s Chaconne

• Respire by Katelyn Petersen

• Dobrinka Tabakova’s Fantasy Homage to Schubert

• nothing in the cry by Barbara White

Hour 2

• Surge by Wang Lu

• Jenni Brandon’s Fin de la Tierra: Land’s End

• …a tiny dream by Anthony R. Green

• Lisa Ilean’s Tiding II (silentium)