Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’, Vaughan Williams’ ‘Tuba Concerto’ and more on this week’s “Evening Concert”
This week on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Monteverdi “Vespers” on “Carnegie Hall Live”, followed by Vaughan Williams’ “Tuba Concerto” from the CSO; pianist Helene Grimaud plays Brahms 1st Piano Concerto in San Francisco, Thursday it’s “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 JUNE 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 & 21, 2015
Monday June 15: Carnegie Hall Live (CHL #15-11)
Baroque Unlimited: Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers
Performer: English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
MONTEVERDI: Vespers of 1610
Tuesday June 16: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-24)
A Tribute to Arnold Jacobs (Principal Tubist, CSO, 1944-88) (June 11, 1915 – Oct. 7, 1998)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (Jaap van Zweden, conductor)
Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto in F Minor (Gene Pokorny, tuba; Jaap van Zweden, conductor)
Wagner: Prelude to Act I from Der Meistersinger (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Prokofiev: “Battle on the Ice” from Alexander Nevsky (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Movement II. Giuoco delle coppie (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Respighi: Fountains of Rome (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Wednesday June 17: San Francisco Symphony (SFS #15-12)
Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Opus 15 (Hélène Grimaud, piano)
Dutilleux: Métaboles
Ravel: La Valse
Thursday June 18: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP #15-38)
Alan Gilbert, conductor; *Lisa Batiashvili, violin and Francoix Leleux, oboe
*BACH: Concerto for violin and oboe
*THIERRY ESCAICH (b. 1965, France): Violin and Oboe Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10
Friday June 19: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (Subject to availability)
Sinfonia da Camera Ian Hobson, *piano, music director, and conductor
Romanticism and Beyond (4/17/15)
Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op.11
Shostakovich: *Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Sunday June 21: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS #14-38)
Beethoven Early and Late
Beethoven: Trio in D major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 9, No. 2
Kristin Lee, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Beethoven: Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 135; Miro Quartet
and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (#15-12)
Biber: Sonata Violino Solo Representativa in A Major "Representatio Avium" (1669)
Daniel Phillips, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano (1926)
Liang Wang, oboe; Christopher Millard, bassoon; Inon Barnatan, piano
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” (1808)
Benny Kim, violin; Eric Kim, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano