This Week on the Evening Concert: Nov 11 - Nov 15, 2013

This week on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM it’s two Beethoven symphonies from Milwaukee…..Robert Chen is the soloist in Paganini’s 1st Violin Concerto from Chicago . . . Wednesday, Nelson Freire, the piano soloist in the Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto from San Francisco…..Thursday Herbert Blomstedt leads the Cleveland Orchestra in Mozart’s 40th Symphony. Friday it's Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper".

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 11 –12 – 13 – 14 – 15, 2013

Monday November 11: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (#13-06)

            Edo de Waart, conductor

            BEETHOVEN: “Coriolan” Overture

            BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D Major

BEETHOVEN: “Coriolan” Overture

            BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major

            [MSO fill: Kevin PUTS: Inspiring Beethoven and

Arvo PART: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten MSO/Andreas Delfs]

 

Tuesday November 12:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#13-38)

            Riccardo Muti, conductor; *Robert Chen, violin

*PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op.6

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6 in A Major

[CSO fill: BACH arr. Eric CREES: Passacaglia & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582. CSO Brass]

 

Wednesday November 13:  San Francisco Symphony (#13-23)

David Robertson, conductor; *Nelson Friere, piano

ROSSINI: Overture to “The Italian Girl in Algiers”

*CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21

DVORAK: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor

 [SFS fill: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21; SFS/Michael Tilson Thomas]

 

Thursday November 14: Cleveland Orchestra (#13-16)

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “New World”

DVORAK: Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 1

[COR fill: RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Pierre Laurent Aimard piano;  Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez)]

 

Friday November 15: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper

C-U Symphony Orchestra A World of Color (10/05/13)

Stephen Alltop, conductor; *Elissa Koljonen, violin

Christopher THEOFANIDIS: Rainbow Body

*Ernest CHAUSSON: Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25  

*Maurice RAVEL: Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra

Michael DAUGHERTY: Red Cape Tango

Maurice RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé, Suites 1 and 2