The Evening Concert

Tonight at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in two Tchaikovsky Symphonies: the “First” in G minor, “Winter Dreams”, and the “Last”, the “Pathetique” whose premiere was conducted by Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg nine days before his death in 1893.

Tonight at 7:00 on WILL-FM’s, “Evening Concert” Nicholas McGegan guest conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program of 18th Century works, like a “Concerto Grosso” by Handel, a “Sinfonia” by J. C. Bach and arias by Vivaldi, Hasse, and Porpora featuring mezzo soprano  Vivica Genaux. Also on the program: Haydn’s 100th “Symphony”.

Tonight at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM it’s “Salzburg Festival 2013”. Ivor Bolton conducts the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra in Haydn’s “London” Symphony. Also on the program, Daniele Gatti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Concert Chorus, and vocal soloists in selections from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg the only comedy among his mature operas. 

Monday night at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM it’s Haydn’s “104th Symphony” on “Salzburg Festival 2013”, then Tuesday, Nick McGegan conducts the CSO; Wednesday it’s two symphonies by Tchaikovsky from LA; Thursday, “The New York Philharmonic This Week”; Friday, “Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper" and Sunday, “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM it’s “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. Clarinetist David Schifrin is featured in Dvorak’s “Serenade in D Minor for Winds, Cello and Double Bass”. Also on the program oboist Stephen Taylor is featured in Mozart’s “Serenade for Winds in C Minor, K. 388.”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM … it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. The orchestra plays Bruckner’s 9th Symphony, left unfinished at his death in 1896. Manfred Honeck guest conducts. Also on the program Claude Vivier’s “Orion”, described as “music of great harmonic and instrumental color”.

Tonight at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM, it’s the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by guest conductor Lionel Bringuier. The episode features Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” and Beethoven’s 4th Symphony. Also on the program, Camilla Tilling sings Alban Berg’s “Seven Early Songs”. That’s music of the three “B’s”: Beethoven, Brahms’ and Berg on the Los Angeles Philharmonic on WILL-FM 90.9.

Tonight at 7:00 on WILL-FM’s, “Evening Concert” Charles Dutoit guest conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works by Benjamin Britten. 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth, thus this program of the family-friendly “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” and the fiercely anti-war “War Requiem”.

Tonight at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM it’s “Salzburg Festival 2013”. Christian Thielemann conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s 5th Symphony, a work the composer called “a masterwork of counterpoint".  Also on the program, an archive performance of Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” and “Liebestod” with soprano Jessye Norman

Monday night at 7:00 on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM it’s Bruckner’s “5th” from “Salzburg Festival 2013”, then Tuesday, Britten’s “War Requiem” from Chicago; Wednesday it’s Beethoven’s 4th Symphony from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Thursday, “The New York Philharmonic This Week”; Friday, “Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper" and Sunday, “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.