“Cesare venne, e vide, e vinse!” On September 5, Joanna Go launches a new series on OPERAphile. Iconic Rulers begins with Handel’s Giulio Cesare, which focuses on Caesar’s ambitions in Egypts… and his relationship with Cleopatra. Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito lets us into the life of Titus, the much-misunderstood Roman Emperor with a compassionate heart. The third ruler is the Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov usurper to the Russian throne.

OPERAphile with soprano Joanna Go is DZFE’s opera program, airing 1930 Saturday evenings. Operas are usually explored by theme. A rebroadcast of the theme cycle follows in the weeks subsequent to the initial airing.

The Bösendorfer Series of concerts has a double treat for piano lovers.

On September 5, Sunday, 1800 at the Fleur de Lis Theater, St. Paul’s College Manila, Roberta Rust presents a refreshing program of Gershwin and Joplin, John Sharpley, Michael Anderson, George Rochberg, Johann Christian Bach, Haydn and Schubert. Roberta Rust has taught several Filipino pianists, including Jonathan Coo, Victor Asuncion, Ross Salvosa, Darren Matias, and Oliver Salonga.

On September 6, Monday, at 1930, at the Philamlife Theater, Manila, Victor Goldberg, Vladimir Horowitz Competition Winner, displays poetry and intensity in a program that includes Mozart’s Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311; Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Major, Op. 53; Scarlatti’s Sonata in E Major, K. 380; and Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24.

For details and ticket reservations to the ROS Music Center and Bosendörfer concert, please call 440-1021 or (0917)529-8642.

You may have caught the commentaries during the election season. Beginning September 6, Windows joins DZFE’s roster of regular features.

The weekly five-minute commentary intends to offer a biblical perspective on social issues. The five-minute feature airs Monday 1306, Tuesday 1600, Wednesday 655, Thursday 1406, Friday 2155, Saturday 1055, and Sunday 1655.

Windows is a collaborative production of Church of the Nazarene Philippines, Inc., Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture (ISACC), DZFE-FM, and WM Communications Asia-Pacific.

London, Antarctica and Oxford...The Student, the Philosopher, the Prodigal Son... Guest musicologist Russell Brandon explores Titled Symphonies. The limelight is frequently on Joseph Haydn, but there also many other symphonic composers to investigate, such as Scriabin and Hindemith. Listen Wednesday night, 2000-2200.