The Evening Concert on Illinois Classical
ILLINOIS CLASSICAL: The Evening Concert: JUNE 28 – 29 – 30 – JULY 1 – 2 – 3, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 6:00 pm: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 26-41)
End of Time
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano. Jörg Widmann, Clarinet; Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello; Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
Sunday, June 28, 7:00 pm: Fiesta! With Elbio Barilari (FST 26-14)
A Latin American Concert
Fiesta invites you to enjoy another imaginary concert starting with a gorgeous Spanish overture by Evaristo Fernández Blanco, followed by a delightful Brazilian guitar concerto by Radamés Gnattalli and a magnificent Mexican symphonic suite by Silvestre Revueltas. (contact trauth@illinois.edu for details).
Monday, June 29, 7:00 pm: The New York Philharmonic (NYP 26-41) (Repeat of NYP 17-36)
VERDI: Missa da Requiem
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Angela Meade, soprano; Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano; Russell Thomas, tenor;
Eric Owens, bass-baritone; New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, director)
[NYP fill: MENDELSSOHN: Magnificat in D. New York Philharmonic; Masaaki Suzuki, conductor; Bach Collegium Japan; Yale Schola Cantorum (rec. March 2013)]
Tuesday, June 30, 7:00 pm: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 26-27) (Repeat of CSO 25-38)
Guests in the House
Aram Khachaturian: Symphony No. 3 in C Major. Leopold Stokowski, conductor
John Williams: Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra. John Williams, c.; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Zoltán Kodály Dances of Galánta. Neeme Järvi, conductor
César Franck: Symphony in D Minor. Pierre Monteux, conductor
Wednesday, July 1, 7:00 pm: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 26-13)
Salonen Conducts Mahler 2
In his final program as San Francisco Symphony Music Director (Live Recording, June 12, 2025)
ORCHESTRA: San Francisco Symphony / CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Gustav Mahler: Sym. No. 2 in C minor. Heidi Stober, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; SFS Chorus
[SFS fill: Claude Debussy: La Mer. SFS Orchestra; MTT, conductor. Live Recording, May 14, 2010]
[Thursday, July 2, 7:00 pm: Prairie Performances with Mel Miller (PP 26-27)]
Friday, July 3, 7:00 pm: Heifetz On Air [128 (R26)] Independence Day
William Kroll: Banjo & Fiddle. Madison Vest, violin; Anton Smirnoff, piano
Key, arr. Heifetz: Star-Spangled Banner. Noelle Naito, violin; Clara Kim, violin
Bill Monroe, arr. Mark O’Connor: Gold Rush. Passacaglia Mason, violin; Clay Hancock, violin
Alasdair Fraser: Valley of the Moon Reel. Isabella Gorman, violin; Alex Fowler, cello
Gershwin, arr. J. Heifetz:: Summertime/Someone To Watch Over Me. Angela Sin Ying Chan, violin
Beilin Han, piano
Gershwin, arr. J. Heifetz:: It Ain’t Necessarily So. Ji-Won Song, violin; Carlos Avila, piano
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River, Op. 59, No. 10 from 24 Negro Spirituals. Wynton Grant, violin
Stefan Petrov, piano
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E minor (1932): II. Andante. Andrew Rosenblum, piano
Copland / Traditional, arr. Nate Sabat: At The River / Shenandoah. Angel Azzarra, soprano; The Heifetz Band
Bernstein, arr. Raimundo Penaforte: West Side Story Suite. Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Carlos Avila, piano
Sousa, arr. Bruce Dukov: Stars & Stripes Forever. Madison Vest, violin; Geneva Lewis, violin
