The Evening Concert

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert. You’ll hear the opening concert from last year’s Rheingau Music Festival with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus led by Alain Altinoglu in Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata “Hymn of Praise”.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the third program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony led by their new Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.  You’ll hear Schubert’s “5th Symphony” and the US premiere of Bryce Dessner’s “Violin Concerto”.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Coleridge-Taylor’s “Ballade” for Orchestra and Dvorak’s “6th Symphony”. Also on the program Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” with soloist Joelle Harvey.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Wagner’s “Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin” and Tchaikovsky’s “4th Symphony”. Also on the program Julia Adolphe’s “Viola Concerto” with soloist Cynthia Phelps.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear the Emerson String Quartet play Dvorak’s “13th String Quartet” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear music by Brazilian composer Radames Gnatalli on “Fiesta”.

Thursday night April 13 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s a new series from the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts. You’ll hear the opening concert from last year’s Beethoven Festival with the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Ivan Fischer in Beethoven’s “3rd Symphony” and works by Bartok, and Ligeti.

Wednesday night April 12 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the second program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony led by their new Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.  You’ll hear Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and “La Mer”.

Tuesday night April 11 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Beethoven’s Overture to The Ruins of Athens and Philip Glass’ “Symphony No. 11”. Also on the program Beethoven’s “4th Piano Concerto” with soloist Mitsuko Uchida.

Monday night April 10 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Wagenaar’s “Cyrano de Bergerac Overture” and Beethoven’s “7th Symphony”. Also on the program Korngold’s “Violin Concerto” with soloist Hilary Hahn.

Sunday night April 9 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear a wind quintet arrangement of Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear Latin American music for Easter on “Fiesta”.