This week’s “Evening Concert"s have a mix of favorites and less-often heard works…
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear “A Night at the Opera” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, then “Italian Opera Masterworks” from Chicago, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” from San Francisco, Brahms “Violin Concerto” from Pittsburgh, and Sunday chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF APR 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 & 22, 2018
Monday April 16: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-29)
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Wagner: Immolation Scene from Gotterdammerung; Montserrat Caballé, soprano; Zubin Mehta, cond.
Mascagni: Cherry Duet fr. L’Amico Fritz; Plácido Domingo, ten., Adriana Morelli, sop.; Z. Mehta, cond.
Special feature: Continuing In Their Footsteps: Celebrating African-Americans in Opera & Song
Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle; Siegmund Nimsgern, bar., Tatiana Troyanos, mezzo; Rafael Kubelik conductor
Tuesday April 17: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts (CSO 18-16)
Riccardo Muti conducts Italian Opera Masterworks (Repeat of 17-41)
Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Verdi: Gli arredi festivi from Nabucco (Chicago Symphony Chorus)
Verdi: Va, pensiero from Nabucco (Chicago Symphony Chorus)
Verdi: Vedi! Le fosche notturne from Il trovatore (Chicago Symphony Chorus)
Verdi: Patria oppressa! From Macbeth (Chicago Symphony Chorus)
Verdi: Overture to I vespri siciliani
Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele (Riccardo Zanellato, bass; Chicago Sym. Chorus; Chicago Children’s Choir)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Wednesday April 18: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 18-03) (new series)
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Alexander Barantschik, violin*
Debussy/ Orch. Holloway: En blanc et noir
J. Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Opus 35*
Thursday April 19: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 17-18_03) (new series)
ADAMS: Lollapalooza (PSO premiere)
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto
Boris PIGOVAT (b. 1953, Israel): “…therefore choose life…” (Manfred Honeck 10th Anniversary Commission)
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Larry Allen, organ
Sunday April 22: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-30) German
Berg: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3; Amphion String Quartet
Brahms: Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 111; Philip Setzer, Violin; Shmuel Ashkenasi, Violin; Richard O'Neill, Viola; Arnaud Sussmann, Viola; Paul Watkins, Cello
AND Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFS 18-04)
PAGANINI: Sonata in A Major, Op. 3, No. 1 (ca 1805) (arr. Barrueco)
Sonata in E Minor, Op. 3, No. 6 (ca 1805) (arr. Barrueco) Łukasz Kuropaczewski, guitar
(Performance: July 20, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)
ELLIOTT CARTER: Quintet for Piano & Strings (1997) Stephen Gosling, piano; FLUX Quartet: Tom Chiu & Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Felix Fan, cello
(Performance: August 4, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)
SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 (1842) Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello
(Performance: July 17, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)