Music Mountain, the CSO, the San Francisco Symphony, the “New York Philharmonic This Week” & more
This week on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the first episode of Music Mountain 2014, then Scheherazade from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; an all-baroque music program from the San Francisco Symphony, Thursday “The New York Philharmonic This Week” then Sunday, chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival series.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF AUGUST 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 & 9, 2015
Monday August 3: Music Mountain [2014] (MM #15-01)
Enso String Quartet; Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano
Puccini: Chrysanthemums
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, K. 493
[MM fill: 1st Historic Encore: Brahms, String Quartet in A minor opus 51 #2 performed by the Leontovitch String Quartet; and 2nd Historic Encore: Mozart,3 Sonatas for Organ and strings, C major K.336, D major K.245, and C major K.328; performed by the Gordon String Quartet]
Tuesday August 4: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-31)
Mei-Ann Chen conducts Scheherazade
Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusina Overture
Florence Price (1887- 1953 USA): Mississippi River
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade (Robert Chen, violin) -conducted by Mei-Ann Chen
[CSO fill: Elgar: Cockaigne Overture -conducted by Vasily Petrenko]
Wednesday August 5: San Francisco Symphony (SFS #15-19)
Ton Koopman, conductor
J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069
C. P. E. Bach: Cello Concerto No. 3 in A major, H.439(Wq.172) (Peter Wyrick, cello)
C. P. E. Bach: Symphony in G major, H.666(Wq.183,4)
J. S. Bach: Cantata: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 (Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Mark Inouye, trumpet )
[SFS fill: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.)]
Thursday August 6: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP #15-45)
Bramwell, Tovey, conductor
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from Le Voyage dan la Lune
Josef Strauss: Music of the Spheres
Holst: The Planets
[Unannounced Encore: John Williams: "Imperial March" from Star Wars]
Friday August 7: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (Subject to availability)
2014 Allerton Barn Music Festival
Celebrating 60 years of the Jazz Messengers: From at the Café Bohemia to the Present (9/19/14)
Sunday August 9: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS #14-45)
Mozart Serenades
Mozart: Serenade in E-flat Major; Allan Vogel, Stephen Taylor, David Shifrin, Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Milan Turkovic, bassoon; David Jolley, WIllian Purvis, horn
Mozart: Serenade in C minor; Allan Vogel, Stephen Taylor, oboe; Jose Franch-Ballester, Davod Shifrin, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; David Jolley, William Purvis, horn; Edgar Meyer, double bass
and
Spoleto Chamber Music Festival [2014] (#15-06) (of 13)
Stenhammar: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote
Ives: Memories: A. Very Pleasant, B. Rather Sad
Ture Rangström (Swedish, 1887-1947): Den enda stunden
Britten: Funeral Blues;
Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano and Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Stephen Prutsman (American, b. 1960) Jazz Set Stephen Prutsman, piano
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478
Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Gabriela Diaz, viola; David Ying, cello