“Carnegie Hall Live”, the CSO, the San Francisco Symphony, The New York Philharmonic This Week
This week on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Italian opera arias on “Carnegie Hall Live”, then Mahler’s 3rd by the CSO; Beethoven’s 7th from San Francisco, Thursday, Yefim Bronfman play’s Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. . . then Sunday, chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF MAY 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 & 31, 2015
Monday May 25: Carnegie Hall Live (CHL #15-08)
Great American Orchestras III (Program differs from the listing in Patterns Magazine)
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Maurizio Benini, conductor
Nicole Cabell, soprano; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Lawrence Brownlee, tenor;
Rossini: Overture to Aureliano in Palmira
Carafa: "L'amica ancor non torna... Oh, di sorte crudel" from Le nozze di Lammermoor (DiDonato)
Donizetti: "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from L'elsir d'amore (Brownlee)
Donizetti: "Prendi, per me sei libero" from E'liser d'amore (Brownlee and Claycomb)
Pacini: "Ove T'aggiri, O barbaro" from Stella di Napoli (DiDonato)
Bellini: "Oh! quante volte" from I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Claycomb)
Bellini: "Oh! mia Guilietta" from I Capuleti e I Montecchi (DiDonato and Claycomb)
Donizetti: "La maitresse du roi...Ange si pur" from La Favorite (Brownlee)
Rossini: "Reidi al soglio" from Zelmira (Didonato)
ENCORE: Rossini: Trio from La Comte Ory (DiDonato, Claycomb, and Brownlee)
Tuesday May 26: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-21)
Semyon Bychkov Conducts Mahler 3
Carter: Soundings (Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor)
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Wednesday May 27: San Francisco Symphony (SFS #15-09)
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; *Alexander Barantschik, violin ^Mason Bates, electronica
*Beethoven: Romance No. 1 in G major, Opus 40
*Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F major, Opus 50
^Mason Bates (American, b. 1977) The B-Sides (for orchestra and electronica)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 93
Thursday May 28: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP #15-35)
Alan Gilbert, conductor; *Yefim Bronfman, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15
ANTHONY CHEUNG (American, b. 1982): Lyra (World-Premiere, New York Philharmonic Commission)
*BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, OP. 58
Friday May 29: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (Subject to availability)
Illinois Chamber Symphony Alistair Willis, conductor;
No Strings Attached (1/23-24/15)
Gabrieli: Sonata pian’e forteuite Francais
R. Strauss: Serenade for Winds
Paul Dukas: La Peri Fanfare
Stravinsky: Symphony of Winds
Weill: Suite from the Threepenny Opera
Sunday May 31: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS #14-35)
Distinctive Voices
Thomas Ades (British, b. 1971): Arcadiana
[University of Illinois String-Quart-in-Residence] Jupiter String Quartet
Faure: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major. Elman Oliveira, violin; Inon Barnatan, piano
and
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (#15-09)
Brett Dean (Australian, b. 1961): String Quartet No. 2, "And once I played Ophelia" Text by Matthew Jocelyn after William Shakespeare. Co-Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten Sinfonia, and Australian String Quartet (2014, U.S. Premiere). Tony Arnold, soprano; Orion String Quartet
Mozart (Austrian, b. 1756): String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, KV. 593 (1790). Ida Kavafian, violin; Jessica Lee, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello