A few “Brandenburg” concertos, a Bassoon Concerto and much more on this week’s “Evening Concerts”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Bach’s “5th Brandenburg Concerto” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, Mozart’s “Bassoon Concerto” from Chicago, Brahms’ “Double Concerto” on “Carnegie Hall Live!”, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” from Los Angeles, then Sunday, chamber music from Lincoln Center and the program “Early Music Now”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF AUG 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 & SEP 2, 2018
Monday August 27: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-48)
A Century of Bernstein, Part I
Bernstein: Overture to Candide (no conductor) Schumann: Manfred Overture, Op. 115
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1040 John Wummer, flute; Isaac Stern, violin
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts: Acts III & IV (abridged) Betty Allen; mezzo; McHenry Boatwright, bass; Lee Venora, soprano; Arnold Voketaitis, baritone; Robert Eckert, tenor; Choral Art Society, dir. William Jonson
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms John Bogart, boy alto; Camerata Singers, dir. Abraham Kaplan
Russo: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 32, "Titans" Maynard Ferguson, trombone
Debussy: Rhapsody for Saxophone and Piano Sigurd Rascher, saxophone
Brubeck, H. II: Andante-Ballad from Dialogues for Jazz Combo & Orchestra Dave Brubeck Quartet
Tuesday August 28: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 18-35)
Rafael Payare and Keith Buncke
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191 (Keith Buncke, bassoon)
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Jennifer Gunn, flute; Eugene Izotov, oboe; Christopher Martin, trumpet; Robert Chen, violin; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor)
Bach: Brandenburg Cto No. 4 (Robert Chen, v; Jennifer Gunn, fl; Louise Dixon, fl; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor)
Wednesday August 29: Carnegie Hall Live! (CHL 18-09)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Bavarian State Orchestra)
Kirill Petrenko, Music Director and Conductor
Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102 Julia Fischer, Violin; Daniel Müller-Schott, Cello
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 [CHL fill: Mozart - Rondo alla Turca-Yuja Wang]
Thursday August 30: Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP 18-09)
Conductor: James Conlon
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Nico Muhly (b. 1981, USA): Organ Concerto (World Premiere, LA Phil co-commission) James McVinnie, organ
Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Sunday September 2: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-49)
Late Style
Mozart: Adagio in B minor for Piano, K. 540 Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
Brahms: Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114 Anthony McGill, Clarinet; Alisa Weilerstein, Cello; Inon Barnatan, Piano
Janáček: Mládí, Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn
Sooyun Kim, Flute; Stephen Taylor, Oboe; Tommaso Lonquich, Clarinet; Romie de Guise-Langlois, Bass Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Bassoon; David Jolley, Horn
AND Early Music Now with Sara Schneider (EMN 18-10)
From Four to 40 in 60 Minutes
Composers like Tallis, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Striggio were sonic architects who wrote polychoral music for up to forty separate voice parts. This week's show presents music for four, eight, 12, 16 and 40 voices, performed by The Huelgas Ensemble and I Fagiolini.
Samuel Scheidt: Paduan 4. Vocum La Fenice/Jean Tubery
Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubliate Deo Liuwe Tamminga, organ
Giovanni Gabrieli: Exaudi me Domine Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona XVII a 12 Musica Fiata/Roland Wilson
Robert Wylkynson: Jesu autem transiens The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
Michael Praetorius: Jesaja dem Propheten das geschah Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh
Alessandro Striggio: Ecce beatem lucem I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth
Anon. Spem in Alium I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth
Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel
Antoine Brumel Kyrie from ‘Missa Et Ecce Terrae Motus’ The Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips