This Week on the Evening Concert: Nov 18 - Nov 22, 2013

This week on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM we’ll have Shostakovich’s 1st Piano Concerto from Milwaukee….. Maestro Muti and Dvorak’s 5th Symphony from Chicago . . . then Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Violin Concerto” from San Francisco and Giancarlo Guerrero and the Cleveland Orchestra in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Friday it's "Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper".

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 18 - 19 – 20 – 21 – 22, 2013

Monday November 18: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (#13-07)

Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor, and *pianist

LIADOV: Baba Yaga, Op. 56            

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 (MSO/Skrowacewski)

*SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35 (MSO/Francesco Lecce-Chong; Mark Niehaus, trumpet)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 6 in E-flat Minor, Op. 111

BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia (MSO/Delfs)

 

Tuesday November 19:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#13-39)

Riccardo Muti, conductor

DVORAK: Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76

MARTUCCI: Notturno

RESPIGHI: Feste romana

MENDELLSOHN: Symphony No. 3 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”

 

Wednesday November 20:  San Francisco Symphony (#13-10)

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; *Leila Josefowicz, violin

SIBELIUS: Pojhola’s Daughter

*SALONEN: Violin Concerto

WAGNER: Excerpts from “Gotterdammerung” (Christine Brewer, soprano)

[SFS fill: SCHOENBERG: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16 (SFS/Michael Tilson Thomas)]

 

Thursday November 21: Cleveland Orchestra (#13-18)

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; *Nicole Cabell, soprano; Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano; Garrett Sorenson, tenor; Raymond Aceto, bass
LIEBERSON: Neruda Songs (Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano)
*BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 “Choral”

[COR fill: TRAD. - SAEGUSA: Misty Moonlight (Cleveland Orchestra Sinfonietta)]

 

Friday November 22: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper

(Scheduled, per Patterns, check availability with rcOOper)

Eastern Illinois Symphony Orchestra

R. Robert Rossi, conductor; April Lee, conductor

Cathedrals, Castles & Colonies (10/20/13)

Featuring the EUI Choral Ensembles and Collegium Musicum (Early Music Ensembles)