This Week (May 19 - May 25, 2014) on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM
Monday night at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra plays Mozart’s 34th Symphony; Tuesday night it’s Saint-Saen’s “Organ” Symphony from the CSO; Wednesday it’s Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Thursday, “The New York Philharmonic This Week”; Friday, “Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper" and Sunday, “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.
WEEK OF MAY 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 & 25, 2014
Monday May 19: Salzburg Festival (#14-07)
Till Fellner, piano; Belcea Quartet
DVORAK: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Ivor Bolton, conductor; Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra;
MOZART: Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 388
[Salzburg Festival fill: Schumann: Five Songs from ‘6 Gesange”, op.107, and Dichterliebe, op. 48; Christian Gerhaher, baritone; Gerold Huber, piano]
Tuesday May 20: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#14-20)
Dutoit and Dufour
Charles Dutoit, conductor; *Matthieu Dufour, flute; **Paul Jacobs, organ
DUKAS: La Peri: Fanfare and poème dansé
*Guillaume CONNESSON (b. 1970, France): pour sortir au jour [CSO co-commission; World Premiere]
**SAINT-SEANS: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, “Organ”
[CSO fill: John WILLIAMS: Violin Concerto (Gil Shaham, violin; John Williams, conductor)]
Wednesday May 21: Los Angeles Philharmonic (#14-08)
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; *Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; **LA Master Chorale
*BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5
**RAVEL: Daphnis and Chloé (complete ballet score)
[LAP fill: HOLST: Mars from “The Planets”; LA Phil./Leopold Stokowski (EMI Classics 65423-2)]
Thursday May 22: The New York Philharmonic This Week (#14-33)
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; *Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Julian ANDERSON (b. 1967, Britain): The Discovery of Heaven (U.S. Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the London Philharmonic Orchestra)
*FRANCK: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra
PROKOFIEV: Selections from Romeo and Juliet
[NYP fill: CHAUSSON: Poem of Love and of the Sea. NYP/Alan Gilbert, cond.]
Friday May 23: Prairie Performances
Sinfonia da Camera (3/8/14) From Russia With Love
Ian Hobson, conductor; Andres Cardenes, violin
PROKOFIEV, STRAVINSKY; TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday May 25: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. (#13-33) (7:00 – 8:00 p.m.)
Bach & Schubert
BACH: Suite No. 5 in C Minor for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1011 (Colin Carr, cello)
SCHUBERT: Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major for Strings, D. 87, Op. 125, No. 1 (Vermeer String Quartet: Shmuel Ashkenasi, Mathias Tacke, violins; Richard Young, viola; Marc Johnson, cello)