Music by Mussorgsky, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and others on the week’s “Evening Concerts”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” from New York, Brahms’ “1st Symphony” from Chicago, Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” from Pittsburgh, Brahms’ “2nd Symphony” from Dresden, then Sunday chamber music by Dvorak from Lincoln Center and the program “Early Music Now”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF FEB 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 & 10, 2019
Monday February 4: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 19-19)
There, in the Night
Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake (excerpt); Alan Gilbert, conductor
Mendelssohn: Overture & Nocturne from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; George Szell, conductor
Ives: “Central Park in the Dark”; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Schoenberg: “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night); Pierre Boulez, conductor
Julia Adolphe: “Dark Sand, Sifting Light”; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Stravinsky: “The Song of the Nightingale”; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Mussorgksy: “Night on Bald Mountain”; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Berlioz: “Au Cimetière: Clair de lune” (“In the Cemetery: Moonlight”) from Les Nuits d’été (Summer Nights), Op. 7; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 7: IV: “Night Music: Andante amoroso”; Lorin Maazel, conductor
Tuesday February 5: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 19-06)
Bychkov conducts Brahms
Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Renaurd Capucon, violin)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
[CSO fill: Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal. Leonard Slatkin, conductor].
Wednesday February 6: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 18-19_06)
Manfred Honeck, conductor; James Ehnes, violin
Steven Stucky (1949 - 2016): Silent Spring
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Thursday February 7: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 18-06)
Sound of Dresden
Dresden Festival Orchestra; Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Brahms: Variations in B-flat on a theme of Joseph Haydn, op. 56a
Brahms: Violin concerto in D Major, op. 77 (Thomas Zehetmair, violin)
Alois Zimmermann: Violin Sonata (1951, first movement, encore)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73
Sunday February 10: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 18-20)
Osvaldo Golijov
Golijov: Yiddishbuk: Inscriptions for String Quartet; St. Lawrence String Quartet
Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for Clarinet and String Quartet;
Todd Palmer, clarinet; St. Lawrence String Quartet
AND
Early Music Now (EMN 18-33)
Dutch Treats
Many talented composers were born in the country we now call the Netherlands, and this week's show introduces several of them. Huygens, Wassenaer, and Reincken all make an appearance, along with the most famous Dutch composer of them all: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Our performers include the Gesualdo Consort of Amsterdam, Capilla Flamenca, and Gustav Leonhardt.
Jacob van Eyck: Excusemoy (“Can she excuse”). Marion Verbruggen, recorder
Clemens non Papa: Three Dutch Songs. Capilla Flamenca
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto Armonico No.1 Aradia. Ensemble/Kevin Mallon
Constantijn Huygens: Selections from ‘Pathodia sacra et profana’. Anne Grimm, soprano & Peter Kooij, bass
Johann Adam Reincken: Partita No. 1 in a minor. The Purcell Quartet
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Diligam te Domine. The Gesualdo Consort of Amsterdam
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: In te domine speravi. The Gesualdo Consort of Amsterdam
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Puer natus nascitur. Freddy Eichelberger, organ