Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto”, Weber’s “1st Clarinet Concerto”, and more on the Evening Concert.
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto” from Shanghai, Franck’s “Symphonic Variations” from Chicago, Weber’s “1st Clarinet Concerto” from Pittsburgh, Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante” from the New York Philharmonic and Sunday . . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF AUG 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 & 14, 2016
Monday August 8: Shanghai Spring [International Music Festival] (SSF 15-01)( of 8)
Shanghai: Center of the Universe
Huang Yijun: Beautiful Flower and Full Moon; Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Huo Runyu
Lu Qimin: Ode to the Red Flag; Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra/Zhang Liang
Bizet, Georges: Carmen Fantasy; Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra/Zhang Liang; Wang Zhijong, violin
Rossini, Gioacchino: “Largo al Factotum” from “The Barber of Seville”; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott Jonathan; LiaoChangyong, baritone
Zhang, Chao: Chinese Dream; Shanghai P.O./Zhang Liang; Sun Yingdi,piano
Wang, Aikang: Booming Jiangnan; The Chinese Music Orchestra of Jiangsu Province/Wang Aikang
Xu, Shuya: Paysage d’hiver; St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra/Dmitriev Alexander; Wang Liang, oboe
Sibelius, Jean: Violin Concerto; St.Petersburg S.O./Dimitriev Alexander; Wang Zhijong, violin
Tuesday August 9: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 16-32)
Dutoit conducts Ravel
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
D'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Louis Lortie, piano)
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Louis Lortie, piano).
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe
[CSO fill Berlioz: Les nuit d’été (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano) - conducted by Pierre Boulez]
Wednesday August 10: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) 15-16_11)
SUPPE: Overture to “A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna”
ZIEHRER: “Viennese Maiden” Waltz
WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Michael Rusinek, clarinet)
ZIEHRER: “Step Right In” Waltz
R. STRAUSS: Suite from the Ballet “Whipped Cream”
ROSSINI: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra (Michael Rusinek, clarinet)
STRAUSS, JR: “New ‘Pizzacato Polka’”
SCHONHERR: “Drive in the Prater Park” Galop
STRAUSS, JOSEF: “Feuerfest” Polka
STRAUSS, JOH., SR.: “Radetky March”
[PSO fill: STRAUSS, Johann & Josef: “Pizzacato Polka”;
STRAUSS, JR.: “Tritsch-Tratsch” Polka]
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Thursday August 11: The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 16-46)
Van Zweden, Staples, and Phelps perform Mozart and Shostakovich
CONDUCTOR: Jaap van Zweden, conductor; **Sheryl Staples, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola
**MOZART: Sinfonia concertante, K.364/320d;
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8
Friday August 12: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (PP 16-33) Subject to availability
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra; Michael Luxner, conductor (4/16/16)
Ives: The Unanswered Question; Coplandp: Suite from “Appalachian Spring”
Gershwin arr. Robert Russell Bennett: The Porgy and Bess Concert; Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano; Leon Williams, baritone
Sunday August 14: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 15-46)
20th Century Masters
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Wu Han, Gilbert Kalish, piano; Daniel Druckman, Ayano Kataoka, percussion
Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 in E minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 67 Alessio Bax, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Jakob Koranyi, cello
and
Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (SCM 16-07)
Haydn: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3; St. Lawrence String Quartet
Dowland: “In Darkness Let me Dwell” and “Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite”;
Tyler Duncan, baritone; Kevin Payne, lute
August Klughardt (1847-1902): 5 Schilflieder for Oboe, Viola, and Piano, Op. 28;
I. “Langsam, träumerisch”
II. “Leidenschaftlich erregt”
III. “Zart, in ruhiger Bewegung”
James Austin Smith, oboe; Daniel Phillips, viola; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960): “Omaramor” for Solo Cello (Oswaldo); Alisa Weilerstein, cello