The “Evening Concert” this week presents music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Purcell and others
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mozart’s “’Prague’ Symphony” from New York, Brahms’ “A German Requiem” from Chicago, Mendelssohn’s “’Italian’ Symphony” from Pittsburgh, Tchaikovsky’s “’Manfred’ Symphony” from Bonn, then Sunday, chamber music by Dvorak and Villa-Lobos from Lincoln Center and music of Purcell and others on “Early Music Now”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF MAY 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 & 17, 2020
Monday May 11: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP 20-33)
Neeme Järvi conducts Beethoven, Mozart, and Zemlinsky
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus), Op. 43
MOZART: Symphony No. 38 in D major, “Prague,” K.504
ZEMLINSKY: Lyric Symphony in Seven Songs, After Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Op. 18
(Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano, Thomas Hampson, baritone, Neeme Järvi, conductor)
Tuesday May 12: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 20-20)
Jaap van Zweden conducts Brahms's A German Requiem
Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45 (Christiane Karg, soprano; Michael Nagy, baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director)
[Fill: Lutoslawski: Musique funèbre (Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor)]
Wednesday, May 13: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 19-20_20)
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano
John Stafford Smith: “The Star Spangled Banner”
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
Daniil Trifonov: Piano Concerto
[Encore: Selection from Daniil Trifonov: “Rachmaniana”]
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien
[Fill: Hugo Wolf: “Der Soldat;” Hans Hotter, bass-baritone; Geoffrey Parsons, piano]
[Fill: Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Godfrey Layefsky, viola; William Steinberg, conductor]
Thursday May 14: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2019-20)
Fedossiev
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow (1,2,7,8,9) Conductor: Vladimir I. Fedossiev (1,2,7,8,9)
Soloists: Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, violin (2,3) Tomoki Kitamura, piano (5,6))
(1) MUSSORGSKY: Night on Bald Mountain, arranged by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov (13:30)
(2) PROKOFIEV: Violin concerto No. 2 in G Minor, op. 63 (28:30)
(3) BACH: Violin Partita No. 3, BWV 1006, 3rd movement (02:51)
(4) LALO: Guitar. Character piece in B Minor for violin and piano, op. 28 (03:21)
(5) LACHENMANN: Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) (03:58)
(6) DEBUSSY: Claire de lune (05:38)
(7) TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony in B Minor nach Lord Byron, op. 58 (42:04)
(8) SVIRIDOV: Snow Storm (excerpt) (02:21)
(9) TCHAIKOVSKY: Spanish Dance from Swan Lake (02:20)
Sunday May 17: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 19-34)
Play!
Villa-Lobos: Assobio A Játo [The Jet Whistle] for Flute and Cello Sooyun Kim, Flute; Mihai Marica, Cello
Stravinsky: Five Easy Pieces for Piano, Four Hands Gilbert Kalish, Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
Dvorák: Quartet in E-flat major for Strings, Op. 51 Schumann Quartet (Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann, Violin; Liisa Randalu, Viola; Mark Schumann, Cello)
AND
Early Music Now with Sara Schneider (EMN 19-47)
On the Ground
The program differs from the one listed in Patterns Magazine
Whether you call it a passacaglia, chaconne, or ground, the technique of virtuosic writing over a repeated theme in the bass seems to bring out the best in a composer! We'll hear favorites by Buxtehude, Bertali, Falconieri, and more!
Andrea Falconieri: Ciaconna; Capella de la Torre
Tarquinio Merula: Ciacona; and Maurizio Cazzati: Passacaglio; Ensemble Badinerie
Henry Purcell: Three Parts upon a Ground; Hesperion XXI
Henry Purcell: Mark how readily each pliant string; Anna Prohaska, soprano & Arcangelo
Henry Purcell: Curtain Tune from ‘Timon of Athens’; Arcangelo
Dieterich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor; Harald Vogel, organ
Girolamo Frescobaldi: 2 Passacaglias; Ingrid Matthews, violin & Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
Samuel Capricornus: Ciaconna in D major for violin and viola da gamba; Ensemble Echo du Danube
Antonio Bertali: Ciacona; L’Arpeggiata
Giovanni Felice Sances: Lament on the Passacaglia; Maura Pederzoli, soprano & Sergio Vartolo, harpsichord
Robert de Visee: Chaconne des Harlequins de Mr. Lully; Nigel North, lute