Bachfest Leipzig 2, Mozart Piano Concerto 27, Schumann Symphony 4, Kancheli “And Farewell…”
This week on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM, it’s the second of the two “Bachfest Leipzig” programs from Deutsche Welle, then Tuesday Emanuel Ax plays Mozart’s 27th Piano Concerto with the CSO; Wednesday it’s Schumann’s 2nd and 4th Symphonies from the Cleveland Orchestra, Thursday it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday, chamber music from “Lincoln Center” and “Spoleto”.
WILL-FM The Evening Concert & Prairie Performances 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (M – F & SUN)
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 & 21, 2014
Monday November 17: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF) (#13-13)
BACHFEST LEIPZIG 02
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Georg Christoph Biller; St. Thomas' Boy Choir; Reglint Bühler, soprano; Susanne Krumbiegel, mezzo-soprano; Susanne Langner, alto; Martin Lattke, tenor; Markus Flaig, bass
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Recorded by Deutsche Welle (DW) in St. Thomas' Church, Leipzig on June 23, 2013
Tuesday November 18: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #14-46)
Bernard Haitink conducts Bruckner 4
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 (Emanuel Ax, piano)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Romantic)
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden (Sir Mark Elder, conductor)
Wednesday November 19: Cleveland Orchestra COR (#14-16)
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
[COR fill: MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K.271. Mitsuko Uchida, piano & conductor]
Thursday November 20: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP) (#15-07)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor;
MUSSORGSKY (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov): Khovanshchina: Prelude: Dawn on the Moskva River
Giya KANCHELI (b. 1935, Georgia): And Farewell Goes Out Sighing…(1999) (Gidon Kremer, violin; Kurt Masur conductor)
BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia (from SMK 63076)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7 in C, op. 60, “Leningrad” (Derek Lee Ragain, counter-tenor)
Friday November 21: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
U of I Symphony Orchestra (10/10/14) Donald Schleicher, conductor; *Soon Jung Hur, piano
R. Strauss: Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
*Grieg: Piano Concerto
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite; Bolero
Sunday November 23: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS): (#14-08)
Mario Davidovsky (b. 1934) Septet (2007) for Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and DoubleBass. Gilbert Kalish, piano; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet; Yoon Kwon, violin; David Kim, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; DaXun Zhang, double bass; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Alan Louis Smith (b. 1955): Vignettes - Ellis Island (Tr. 2 – 24) Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Warren Jones, piano
and Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (#14-08)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81. Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Brentano String Quartet
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2. James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Lesley Robertson, viola; Chris Costanza, cello