Music Director Profile #4: Kurt Masur on tonight’s “New York Philharmonic This Week”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” with “Music Director Profiles #4: Kurt Masur”. You’ll excerpts and complete works by Beethoven, Wagner, Mendelssohn, and Mussorgsky as well as from Brahms, Schubert, Prokofiev, and Adams.  

Monday June 4: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-36)

Music Director Profile #4: Kurt Masur (Patterns error lists subject as Zubin Mehta)

All selections are excerpts except those marked with the asterisk: *those are complete works.

Conductor: Kurt Masur
Soloists: Hans Sotin, bass; Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; New York Choral Artists; Kevin McMillan, baritone; Sergei Leiferkus, baritone

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale”

*Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave” Prokofiev: Scythian Suite

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

*Wagner: Was duftet doch der Flieder from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Montagues & Capulets

Mendelssohn: Elijah    Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

*Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

*Brahms: Movement IV from Symphony No. 4 in e-minor

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture

*Mendelssohn: Overture to Die Erste Walpurgisnacht

*Ellington/Marsalis: A Tone Parallel to Harlem

*Brahms: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen from Ein Deutches Requiem

*Shostakovich: Movements IV & V from Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar”

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”