To channel the Phil, tune in

ANYONE who missed a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert this season may well get a second chance by tuning in to KUSC-FM (91.5) on Sundays at 4 p.m. Beginning today, the orchestra and the classical radio station will reprise their 4-year-old broadcast partnership, starting with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Dutilleux’s “The Shadows of Time.” The 13-week series, to run through June 25, will open with a tribute to conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, the orchestra’s music director from 1978 to 1984. Giulini died last year at age 91.

“We feature Giulini and members of the Philharmonic who worked with him talking about why his repertoire is small, his respect for the orchestra, and why he can’t conduct music he doesn’t believe in,” says Gail Eichenthal, KUSC’s director of arts programming and co-host of the series with Salonen.

Future programs, all for the first time drawn from a current season, will include Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony; Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the orchestra’s principal concertmaster, Martin Chalifour, as soloist; and excerpts from Thomas Ades opera “The Tempest.” There will also be interviews with Chalifour, keyboardist Joanne Pearce Martin, the husband-and-wife team of violist Minor and violinist Stacy Wetzel, and violinist Mitchell Newman.

-- Chris Pasles