Highlights of the week include Dvorak’s “7th Symphony” and Elgar’s “Enigma Variations”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Dvorak’s “7th Symphony” from Milwaukee, Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” from Chicago, the First Round of the Cooper International Piano Competition from Cleveland, another “New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . . .chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF DEC 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 & 11, 2016
Monday December 5: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (16-10)
CONDUCTOR: JoshuaWeilerstein
BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn, Opus 56a
CORIGLIANO: The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra (Frank Almond, violin)
DVORÁK: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70 [old No. 2]
Tuesday December 6: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 16-49)
Runnicles conducts the Enigma Variations
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Elgar: Enigma Variations
[CSO fill: Dvóřak: Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)]
Wednesday November 7: Cleveland Orchestra (CO) (16-24)
Cleveland International Piano Competition Concerto Round No. 1
Thursday December 8: The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-11)
The New York Philharmonic at 175
Conductor: Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Arturo Toscanini; Jaap van Zweden
Please Note: programming is still to be determined by producer.
Musical highlights to include:
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Friday December 9: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (PP 16-50)
Champaign-Urbana Symphony; Stephen Alltop, conductor; "Second to None" (3/5/16)
Samuel Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra
Alexander Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major, op. 83; (Anton Nel, piano)
Sunday December 11: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-11)
Hungarian Origins
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1953); Tara Helen O'Connor, Flute; Stephen Taylor, Oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Bassoon; Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn
Bartók: Quartet No. 3 for Strings, BB 93 (1927); Orion Quartet
Dohnányi: Serenade in C major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10 (1902)
Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Paul Neubauer, Viola; Paul Watkins, Cello
Bartók: Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances) for Strings, BB 76 (1915, arr 1917)
Violinist Daniel Hope leading an ensemble of CMS artists
and
The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (GIL 16-11)
Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor/B-flat major, Op. 77 (1809); Llŷr Williams, piano
Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2 (1829-31); Till Fellner, piano
Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 119, No. 3 (1893); Richard Goode, piano
Wagner, arr. Kocsis: Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (1859); Imogen Cooper, piano
Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola, S. 200/1; Imogen Cooper, piano
Wagner, arr. Liszt: Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (1859); Imogen Cooper, piano