Concerts from New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Leipzig on the “Evening Concerts” this week.
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Kodaly’s “Hary Janos Suite” from New York, Shostakovich’s “1st Cello Concerto” from Chicago, selections from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” from San Francisco, Berlioz’ “Symphonie fantastique” from Leipzig, then Sunday, chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF APR 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 & 21, 2019
Monday April 15: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 19-29)
Kodály, Rouse, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner
KODÁLY: Háry János: Suite. Kurt Masur, conductor
ROUSE: Trombone Concerto. Joseph Alessi, trombone. Leonard Slatkin, conductor
TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini. Leonard Bernstein, conductor
WAGNER: Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music. Zubin Mehta, conductor
Tuesday April 16: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 19-16)
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Beethoven: Overture to King Stephen, Op. 117
Lutosławski: Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
Janáček: Sinfonietta
Wednesday April 17: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 19-03) (New Series)
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Leila Josefowicz, violin*
John Adams: Scheherazade.2*
Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Thursday April 19: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 2018-19 (DWF 18-16)
Orchestras in Saxony
Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture, op. 84
Paul Hindemith: Harmonie der Welt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat, K. 137 (two unnamed movements)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Sunday April 21: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 18-30)
Baroque Collection
Telemann: Gulliver Suite in D Major.
Arnaud Sussmann & Ida Kavafian, violins
Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor.
Lily Francis, Arnaud Sussmann, Julie Albers, Ida Kavafian, Erin Keefe, violins; Paul Neubauer, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass; Anthony Newman, harpsichord
Telemann: Trauer-musik eines kunsterfahrenen Canarienvogels.
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano; Ida Kavafian, Lily Francis, violins; David Kim, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; Edgar Meyer, double-bass; Anthony Newman, harpsichord
Vivaldi: Concerto in B minor for Four Violins Cello, Strings, and Continuo, Op. 3, No. 10, RV 580.
Ida Kavafian, Erin Keefe, Lily Francis, Arnaud Sussmann, violins; David Kim, Paul Neubauer, violas; Fred Sherry, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass; Anthony Newman, harpsichord
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFS 19-03)
HAYDN: String Quartet in F Minor, Hob III:35, Op. 20, No. 5 (1772). Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello) (performed August 16, 2018, NMMA: New Mexico Museum of Art)
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (1789). Anthony McGill, clarinet; Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, violins; Manabu Suzuki, viola; Eric Kim, cello (performed August 8, 2018, NMMA)