Weekly Listings for the “Eveing Concerts” Mon Jan 10 - Sun Jan 16, 2022
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JAN. 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 & 16, 2022
Monday, January 10: New York Philharmonic (NYP 22-16)
Composers Conduct Their Works
MILHAUD: Suite française, Op. 248; Darius Milhaud, conductor
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (1945); Igor Stravinsky, conductor
HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: A Requiem for those we love
Paul Hindemith, conductor; Louise Parker, alto; George London, bass; Schola Cantorum
RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz; Richard Rodgers, conductor
Tuesday, January 11: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 22-02)
Muti Conducts Brahms & Franck
J. Strauss, Jr.: Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves; Verdi: Ballet Music from Macbeth;
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73; Franck: Symphony in D Minor
Wednesday, January 12: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 21-22_02) (New Season)
Grosvenor Plays Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto
Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Benjamin Grosvenor, piano)
[Encores: Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces Book 3, Op. 43, No. 5, 'Erotik'; Largo from John Sebastian Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No.5, arranged by Alfred Cortot]; Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta; Manfred Honeck, conductor;
Thursday January 13: This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts
(NCPA 22-02) (New Series)
GUAN Xia: Symphonic Overture No.1, Theme Music of Passionate Years (excerpt)
Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra/SHAO En
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93; LÜ Jia, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
BAO Yuankai: “Drizzle in the South”, from Chinese Sights (excerpt); CHEN Lin, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
BAO Yuankai: “Drizzle in the South”, from Chinese Sights and Songs.
I. The Scenery of Wuxi; II. Green Willow; III. Pulling a Reed Catkin; IV. Bamboo-flute Tune
CHEN Lin, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished” (excerpt): LÜ Jia, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye: 5 pièces enfantines; LÜ Jia, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”; LÜ Jia, conductor; NCPA Orchestra
ZHAO Cong, orchestration YIN Tianhu: Pipa Concerto: Happiness and Auspice Forever
LIU Sha, conductor; Chinese National Traditional Orchestra; ZHAO Cong, pipa
ZHENG Lu, MA Hongye; Good News from Beijing to the Borderland
TAN Lihua’ Beijing Symphony Orchestra
GUAN Xia: Symphonic Overture No.1, Theme Music of Passionate Years (excerpt); Wuhan PO/SHAO En
Sunday January 16: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 22-17)
Friendships and Fantasies
Brahms: Scherzo, WoO 2, from “F-A-E” Sonata for Violin and Piano; Chad Hoopes, v.; Orion Weiss, p.
Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132
Romie de Guise-Langlois, Clarinet; Paul Neubauer, Viola; Inon Barnatan, Piano
Dvorák: Quartet No. 12 in F major for Strings, Op. 96, “The American”; Calidore String Quartet
And
Fiesta! With Elbio Barilari (FST 21-42)
Four Latin American Composers We Need to Know Better
Host Elbio Barilari shares music of four composers we all need to know better: the
Argentine Constantino Gaito, Chilean Luis Saglie, Mexican Jose Elizondo and Cuban
Joaquin Nin. Four composers who will stay with you long after you hear their beautiful and
energetic music!