This Week (Apr 7 - Apr 13, 2014) on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM

This week on “The Evening Concert” we start with the first program from the newest “Salzburg Festival” series, then Mathieu Dufour is the soloist in Khachaturian’s “Flute Concerto” in Chicago; Wednesday it’s Debussy’s “Nocturnes for Orchestra” from Los Angeles, Thursday it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Friday Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper".

WILL-FM      The Evening Concert & Prairie Performances 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (M – F & SUN)

 

WEEK OF APRIL 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 & 13, 2014

 

Monday April 7: Salzburg Festival (#14-01) (of 8 in series)

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Ingo Metzmacher, cond.; *Frank Stadler, vln.

MOZART: Six German Dances, K. 517
 IVES: Four Ragtime Dances
STRAVINSKY: Dances Concertantes
*MOZART: Serenade in D (March K. 215 and Serenade K. 204)
[SAL fill: BRAHMS arr. BRAHMS for two pianos: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b (Nelson Freiere, piano; Martha Argerich, piano) from the 2010 Salzburg Festival].

 

Tuesday April 8:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#14-14)

Tughan Sokhiev conducts Tchaikovsky 4; *Mathieu Dufour, flute

BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia
*KHACHATURIAN:  Flute Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
[CSO fill: MUSSORGSKY/orch. SHOSTAKOVICH:  Songs and Dances of Death (from CD on Decca label) (Sergei Aleksakshin, bass; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)]

 

Wednesday April 9:  Los Angeles Philharmonic (#14-02) (of 13 in series)

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; *Women of the LA Philharmonic Chorus

**Anssi Karttunen, cello;

*DEBUSSY: Nocturnes

**LINDBERG: Cello Concerto No. 2

BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

[LAP fill: STRAVINSKY: Orpheus (Ballet in 3 acts). Philharmonia Orch./Salonen]

 

Thursday April 10:  The New York Philharmonic This Week (#14-27)

Alan Gilbert, conductor; *Leonidas Kavakos, violin;

**Erin Morley, soprano; Joshua Hopkins, baritone

BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture

*KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto

**NIELSEN: Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, Sinfonia Espansiva (DaCapo 6.220623)

[NYP fill: NIELSEN: Symphony No. 2, Op. 16, The Four Temperaments (DaCapo 6.220623)]

 

Friday April 11:  Prairie Performances (per Patterns: program subject to change)

Eastern Illinois University Symphony (2/9/14) featuring the EUI Choral Ensembles and EIU Symphonic Honor Choir

R. Robert Rossi, conductor

 

Sunday April 13:  The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. (#13-28) (7:00 – 8:00 p.m.)

Mozart & Shostakovich for Two Pianos

Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; André-Michel Schub, piano

MOZART:  Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K.448
SHOSTAKOVICH:  Suite in F-Sharp Minor for Two Pianos, Op. 6

SHOSTAKOVICH:  Tarantella for Two Pianos