A new week of “Evening Concerts” from Stravinsky to Schubert

WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF AUGUST 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 & 8, 2021

 

Monday, August 2: The New York Philharmonic This Week! (NYP 21-45)

Gergiev Conducts Stravinsky

Valery Gergiev, Conductor

STRAVINSKY: Les Noces (The Wedding) Mariinsky Theater Chorus; Mlada Khudoley, soprano; Olga Savova, mezzo-soprano; Alexander Timchenko, tenor; Gennady Bezzubenkov, bass; Alexander Mogilevsky, piano; Youliya Zaichkina, piano; Maxim Mogilevsky, piano; Svetlana Smolina, piano

STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird

[NYP fill: STRAVINSKY: The Song of the Nightingale; The New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein]

                                                                                                   

Tuesday, August 3: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 21-32)

Muti Conducts Mendelssohn & Dvořák

Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76

Martucci: Notturno

Respighi: Feste romane

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 60 (Italian)

 

Wednesday, August 4: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 2020-18 (DWF 20-18)

Borodin Quartet

(1) SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, op. 68: 1st movement (08:33)
(2) SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, op. 68: 3rd movement (06:03)
(3) BEETHOVEN: String quartet No. 7 in F Major, op. 59, No. 1: 2nd, 3rd and 4th movements (28:54)
(4) SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, op. 133 (27:57)
(4) BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, op. 127 (36:30)

 

Thursday August 5: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 20-05)

CONDUCTOR: Karina Canellakis

SOLOIST(S): Alexander Gavrylyuk, Piano*

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Opus 10*

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Opus 60, Leningrad

[SFS fill: Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain; Esa-Pekka Salonen 2004-04-01; Davies Symphony Hall]

 

Sunday August 8: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 21-46)

Russian Masters

Scriabin: Five Preludes for Piano, Op. 16; Wu Han, Piano

Taneyev: Quintet in G minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 30 Wu Han, Piano; Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin; Aaron Boyd, Violin; Pierre Lapointe, Viola; Brook Speltz, Cello)

AND Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFE 21-06)

Witold Lutoslawski: Three Fragments for Flute & Harp (1953)

(1913 – 1994) Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; June Han, harp

(Performed July 19, 2018 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1828)

(1797 – 1828) Tokyo String Quartet (Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello); Lynn Harrell, cello

(Performed August 20, 2012 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)