This Week’s Evening Concerts: June 24 - 28, 2013

This week on the Evening Concert it’s “Beethoven’s 2nd piano Concerto” on the Deutsche Welle Festival Concert; Tuesday it’s Rachmaninoff’s  “3rd Piano Concerto” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Wednesday it's the Jerusalem String Quartet from Santa Fe; Thursday, Lang Lang plays Tchaikovsky’s “1st Piano Concerto” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Friday night it's "Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper".

Monday June 24: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (Program #12-07)
“Tensions: Music at the Power Plant in Heimbach”: Cologne Chamber Orchestra
Lars Vogt, cond.; *Lars Vogt, piano; ** Antje Weithaas, violin; Rachel Roberts, viola
           *BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Op. 19
**MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat for Violin, Viola & Orchestra, KV. 164 (320d)           Lars Vogt, piano; Isabelle Faust, vln.; Volker Jacobsen, vla.; Gustav Rivinius, cello
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
Isabelle van Keulen, vln.; Veronika Eberle, vln.; Volker Jacobsen, vla.; Tanja Teztlaff, cello; Yasunori Kawahara, dbl. bass; Jorg Widmann, clar.; Sibylle Mahni, horn; Dag Jensen, bsn.;
SCHUBERT: Octet in F, D. 803: 2nd Movement
        
Tuesday June 25:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Program #13-13)
Sir Mark Elder, cond.; *Garrick Ohlssohn, piano
DVORAK: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No 3
DVORAK: The Water Goblin
*RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39

Wednesday June 26:  Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (Program #13-04)
David Shifrin, clarinet; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Ferruccio BUSONI: Elegy (1920)
Leonard BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata (1942)
Philip Myers, horn; Lily Francis, violin; Inon Barnatan, piano
BRAHMS: Horn Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40 (1865)
and Center Stage from Wolf Trap 2012-13 (Program 4)
East Coast Chamber Orchestra (formed 2001; conductor-less; 18 string players)
BEETHOVEN: Grosse Fuge
Laura Barger, Jacob Rhodeback, piano; Ian Antonia, Russell Greenburg, percussion
Mei-Fang LIN (b. 19_ _): Yarny/Wiry
(Mei-Fang Lin was born in Taiwan. After graduating from the National Taiwan Normal University, she came to the United States and finished her master's degree in composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at Berkeley.)
Jerusalem String Quartet
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 9 in E minor, Op.117

Thursday June 27: Los Angeles Philharmonic (Program #13-13) Season Finale
Gustavo Dudamel, cond.; *Lang Lang, piano
*TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1
NIELSEN:   Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”

Friday June 28: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
Prairie Ensemble; Kevin Kelly, music director/conductor   Conductor’s Choice (05-04-13)
MOZART: Symphony No. 25
R. STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1 (Bernhard Scully, horn)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 5