Two Piano Concertos, a Violin Concerto, and so much more on this week’s Evening Concert
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mozart’s “20th Piano Concerto” from Shanghai, Prokofiev’s “3rd Piano Concerto” from Chicago, Walton’s “Violin Concerto” from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “The Shanghai Spring International Music Festival”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF FEB 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 & 19, 2017
Monday February 13: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-07)
[First ever broadcast series of a Chinese orchestra to U.S. radio audiences]
AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY: The concert recordings of a limited number of works in this series contain brief instances of audio distortion.
CONDUCTOR: Long Yu - Guo Wenjing, Mozart, Prokofiev
Kristjan Järvi - Scriabin
Leon Fleischer - Ravel
SOLOIST: Tang Junqiao (bamboo flute)
Johnson Li (piano)
Guo Wenjing: Bamboo Flute Concerto No.2 Wildfire
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges Suite, Op.33bis
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op.54
Ravel: La valse
Tuesday February 14: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-07)
Truth to Power (3)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (Leningrad) (Jaap van Zweden, conductor)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yuja Wang, piano; Sakari Oramo, conductor)
Wednesday February 15: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-07)
CONDUCTOR: Donald Runnicles
SOLOIST: Alexander Kerr, violin
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
WALTON Violin Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
ELGAR In the South, Op.50
Thursday February 16: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-21)
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert
WEBERN: Passacaglia, Op. 1
DUTILLEUX: Métaboles
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9
Sunday February 19: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-21)
Beethoven & Mendelssohn
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 18, No. 6 (1800)
Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler, Violin; Ori Kam, Viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, Cello)
Mendelssohn: Sextet in D major for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass, Op. 110
Michael Brown, Piano; Chad Hoopes, Violin; Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, Viola; Nicholas Canellakis, Cello; Joseph Conyers, Double Bass
and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival (17-03) (of 4)
Jin Fuzai: Guqin Concerto Poems of Dhyana
Young Chinese Traditional Orchestra, Wu Qiang (conductor), Fang Qiong (soprano),Gao Shan (guqin)
Andrew Rudin: Discourse and Consolation
Orchestra 2001 ensemble
Zhao Jiping: Musical Moments of the Silk Road
Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Daye Lin (conductor)
Trad: Yili Muqam
Muqam Art Troupe