Music of Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and others on this week’s “Evening Concert"s
Monday May 17: The New York Philharmonic This Week! (NYP 21-34)
Haitink Conducts Strauss and Beethoven
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
R. STRAUSS: Don Quixote. Soloists: Carter Brey, cello; Cynthia Phelps, viola
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale”
[NYP fill: WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. NYP/Alan Gilbert (from NYP #11-01)]
Tuesday, May 18: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 21-21)
Honeck & Fellner
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Till Fellner, piano)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Wednesday, May 19: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 2020-2021 (DWF 20-07)
Tensions
Location: Church of Jesus Christ, Berlin
Gustav Rivinius, cello (1)
Mario Häring, piano (1)
Sharon Kam, clarinet (2,5)
Lars Vogt, piano (3,4,5)
Vilde Frang, violin (3)
Julian Steckel, cello (3)
Rachel Roberts, viola (4)
Antje Weithaas, violin (5)
Tanja Tetzlaff, cello (5)
(1) BEETHOVEN: Seven variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen from Mozart's Magic Flute, WoO 46
(2) WIDMANN: Fantasy for solo clarinet
(3) BRAHMS: Piano trio No. 2 in C Major, op. 87
(4) SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata for viola and piano opus 147, 2nd movement (on CD Avi-Music 8553245)
(5) MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Thursday May 20: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 20-21_20)
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
[Encore: “Death of Tybalt” from Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”]
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Suite from Sleeping Beauty
James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni Emmanuel (Colin Currie, percussion)
[Fill: James MacMillan’s Fanfare for Pittsburgh;
James MacMillan’s Children’s Prayer; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers, conductor]
Sunday May 23: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 21-35)
Visions of a Better World
Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen for Two Pianos
Michael Brown, Piano I; Orion Weiss, Piano II
Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte in E major for Piano, Op. 19b, No. 1
Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano
Early Music With Sara Schneider (EMN 20-48)
Music for a Medici Pope
This week, we'll hear music that might have been heard at the court of Pope Leo X, who was born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici in 1475. We'll hear a motet in Leo's honor by Andreas de Silva, plus works by Jean Mouton, whose music the pope admired. We'll hear performances by Cappella Pratensis, plus selections from The Lion's Ear featuring La Morra.