Monday through Thursday and Sunday evenings , it’s the “Evening Concert”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in My Mouth” from New York, Brahms’ “’Haydn’ Variations” from Chicago, Mahler’s “9th Symphony” from Milwaukee, an all-Mozart program from Cleveland, then Sunday, chamber music from Lincoln Center and an episode of “Early Music Now”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF DECEMBER 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 & DEC. 8, 2019
Monday December 2: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP 20-10)
Jaap van Zweden conducts Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth
WOLFE: Fire in My Mouth
Women of The Crossing, dir. Donald Nally; The Young People’s Chorus of New York, dir. Franciso Núñez; Jaap van Zweden, conductor
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8; Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Tuesday December 3: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 19-49)
Esa-Pekka Salonen and Daniel Barenboim
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Schoenberg: Transfigured Night, Op. 4 (1943 Revision)
Wagner: Good Friday Spell from Parsifal (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 (John Sharp, cello; Stephen Hough, piano; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Wednesday December 4: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO 19-10)
R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration Op. 24. Asher Fisch, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major. Edo de Waart, conductor
Thursday December 5: Cleveland Orchestra (COR 19-11)
Harry Bicket, conductor; Kiera Duffy, soprano
MOZART (arr BICKET): Fantasia Piece for Mechanical Clock
MOZART: “Exsultate, jubilate”
MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
MOZART: Symphony No. 38 “Prague”
[COR fill: MAHLER: “Kindertotenlieder – Simon Keenlyside, baritone; Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Moest; Severance Hall 3/2/00]
Sunday December 8: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 19-11)
Russian Voices
Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings. Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor for Strings, Op. 138. Borodin Quartet
AND
Early Music Now (EMN 19-24)
Musical Life at Henry VIII's Court
King Henry VIII was not only a music-loving monarch, but a composer too! This week we'll hear highlights from musical life at his court, including works by Thomas Tallis, excerpts from Henry's songbook, and selections from the soundtrack to the 1972 film Henry VIII and His Six Wives, performed by The Early Music Consort of London.
William Cornysh: Ah Robyn, gentyl Robyn. The Oxford Camerata
Henry VIII (attrib.): Green grow’th the Holly. Theatre of Voices
Anon.: Selections from The Henry VIII Manuscript. Sirinu
Claudin de Sermisy: Jouyssance vous donneray. Alamire; Clare Wilkinson, alto
Anon.: O Deathe rock me asleep. Alamire; Clare Wilkinson, alto
Thoinot Arbeau: Basse Danse ‘Jouyssance vous donneray’. Early Music Consort of London
Pierre Phalese: Galliard ‘Traditore’. Early Music Consort of London
Thomas Tallis: Se Lord and Behold. Alamire
Anon.: Greensleeves to a Ground. Early Music Consort of London