The Evening Concert

Wednesday night August 20 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” you’ll hear Pablo Heras-Casado conduct the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Bruckner’s “5th Symphony”. Also on the program Dame Ethel Smyth’s “Concerto for Violin and Horn” featuring soloists Renaud Capuçon and Stefan Dohr.

Tuesday night August 19 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Massenet’s “Meditation from Thais” and Vaughan Williams’ “Tuba Concerto”. Also on the program Richard Strauss’ “Don Quixote”.

Monday night August 18 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Augusta Read Thomas’ “Gathering Paradise”, Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s “Double Quartet” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide Overture”. Also on the program Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem”.

Sunday night August 17 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” you’ll hear Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 7:00 you’ll hear a program on Joaquin Nin and his children Anaïs Nin and Joaquin Nin-Culmell on “Fiesta”.

Friday night August 15 at 7:00 on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s “Gateways Radio”. You'll hear Shane Evans’ “Beyond the Veil”, Herbert Smith’s “Expansions of the Heart”, Errollyn Wallen’s Mighty River” and Damien Geter’ “Bop”. Loki Karuna hosts.

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Wednesday night August 6 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” you’ll hear Sakari Oramo conduct the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Debussy’s “Nocturnes for Orchestra”. Also on the program Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto with soloist Leif Ove Andsnes. 

Tuesday night August 12 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”, Janacek’s “Sinfonietta” and Copland’s “Dance Symphony”. Also on the program waltzes by Johann Strauss, Jr.

Monday night August 11 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Holst’s “The Planets”, and Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and the “Fantasia on Greensleeves”. Also on the program Elgar’s “Cockaigne Overture”.

Sunday night August 10 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” you’ll hear Saint-Saens’ “1st Violin Sonata” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 7:00 you’ll hear a “17th Century Opera from Spain” on “Fiesta”.