Vallejo Symphony in encore performance playing on classical Bay Area stations

Performance of Mozart's third violin concerto, featuring Alina Kobialka and led by conductor Marc Taddei, begins at 8 p.m. Sunday on KDFC-FM 90.3, KCRW-FM 89.9 and KDFC.com

Live performances of high musical art in the Bay Area may be limited at best or on hold altogether amid the pandemic but the sounds of classical music can be heard online or on radio.

The latter is the case for a 2019 encore performance of Vallejo Symphony, conducted by Marc Taddei, who leads the acclaimed regional orchestra at 8 p.m. Sunday on KDFC-FM 90.3., when Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, featuring violin soloist Alina Kobialka, will air. The program, recorded at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo, the symphony’s home, also can be heard at the same time on KCRW-FM 89.9 and KDFC.com.

Led by conductor Marc Taddei, the performance will mark the eighth appearance in six years by the symphony on KDFC radio, which broadcasts from Petaluma to Monterey and reaches 500,000 listeners.

Of the five Mozart violin concertos, the third, in G major and written in 1775, is probably his most popular, an intimate work informed by sweet, simple melodies that are surpassed, some critics believe, by virtually nothing the Austrian composer’s immense catalog. He was 19 when he composed it.

Like all concertos, it is divided into three movements, fast (allegro), slow (adagio), and a finale (rondo).

From the outset of the 25-minute work, the first movement gallops along brightly in something of a call-and-response conversation between the soloist and the orchestra, at one point, speeding up and into a cascade of notes with heroic heft.

The second is a sugar high and somewhat contemplative in nature, with the sound of flutes, instead of oboes, punctuating the congenial concord of sounds.

The rondo is a moderately fast mix of lively chords that bursts with effervescence, ending with a lighthearted little cadence for just oboes and horns.