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Viennese Masters: Mozart, Schubert, Mahler on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”
Overture to "The Magic Flute"; Overture to "The Magic Harp"; Symphony No. 6 on the program tonight.
7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Overture to "The Magic Flute"; Overture to "The Magic Harp"; Symphony No. 6 on the program tonight.
The Cooper International Competition is held annually and presents monetary prizes for violin performace and piano performance. Started in 1985, the competition gained it's [new] title (Cooper) in 2010 due to the generosity of the Coopers (Thomas and Evon).
Dame Mitsuko has been playing and conducting the Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard for much of her life, most recently with the Cleveland Orchestra in recent recordings and here with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Verdi's "Requiem" is, perhaps, the most performed of the Requiem Mass settings next to Mozart's "Requiem"...you can hear why this is so by tuning in at 7:00 pm tonight.
Monday night we start the week with Verdi's "Requiem", Tuesday it's Uchida playing Mozart, Wednesday piano concertos from Cleveland and more.....
CMS Director David Finckel posits that the Brandenburg Concertos of Bach are in a category with Beethoven's 9th Symphony and similar compositions: iconic works that yield a lifetime of listening pleasure.
Tonight's program is not your usual fare for Thanksgiving. However, we give thanks for the amazing live-in-concert recordings provided to us by our syndicators, including this rarity.
Leopold Stokowski conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in an archival concert from 1971.
Tonight it is music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Edward Elgar. One wonders why Vaughan Williams was never officially conferred the title of "Sir".
Brahms' 3rd Symphony is often considered a "lighter" symphony than the 4th; by comparison it is less "weighty" based upon modality, major versus minor.