Music by Debussy, Mozart, Williams, Beethoven, Schubert & more this week’s Evening Concert
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” from Bonn, Mozart’s “23rd Piano Concerto” from Chicago, “Classics of the Silver Screen” from Pittsburgh, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF AUG 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 & 13, 2017
Monday August 7: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2016-10)
Les Siècles
Location: Beethoven Hall, Bonn; Performed by: Les Siècles; Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
MÉHUL (attrib.): Solemn Mass for the Coronation of Napoleon; Flemish Radio Chorus; Soloists: Chantal Santon, soprano; Caroline Meng, alto; Artavazd Sargsyan, tenor; Tomislav Lavoie, bass
DEBUSSY: Jeux (Games)
STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring
Tuesday August 8: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-32)
Sir Mark Elder conducts Mozart
Ives: Symphony No. 2
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 (Richard Goode, piano)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
[CSO fill: Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos (Emanuel Ax, Benjamin Hochman, Orli Shaham, and Orion Weiss, pianos; David Robertson, conductor)]
Wednesday, August 9: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 16-17_09)
Classics of the Silver Screen
Lawrence Loh, conductor; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Student Chorale
Alfred NEWMAN: 20th Century Fox Fanfare; Jeff TYZIK: The “Big Movie Suite”;
Nino ROTA: Waltz from “The Godfather”; John BARRY: Theme from “Out of Africa”;
VANGELIS: Theme from “Chariots of Fire”; Elton JOHN: “Circle of Life” from “The Lion King”; Ernest GOLD: “Exodus: An Orchestral Tone Poem” John WILLIAMS: “Flying Theme” from “E.T.”; James HORNER: Suite from “Titanic”; Max Steiner: Theme from “Now, Voyager”;
Miklos ROZSA: Prelude and Parade from “Ben Hur”;
[PSO fill: Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto. Itzhak Perlman, violin; Andre Previn, conductor]
Thursday August 10: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-46)
CONDUCTOR: Manfred Honeck
SOLOIST: Liang Wang, oboe
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6
STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto
SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant
Sunday August 13: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-46) American Program
Bolcom: Graceful Ghost from Three Rags for String Quartet (1989); Escher Quartet
Tsontakis: Knick Knacks for Violin and Viola (2000); Ida Kavafian, Violin; Steven Tenenbom, Viola
Fine: Partita for Wind Quintet; Ransom Wilson, Flute; Stephen Taylor, Oboe; Jose Franch-Ballester, Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Bassoon; William Purvis, Horn
Jalbert: Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello; Gilles Vonsattel, Piano; Susie Park, Violin; Julie Albers, Cello
and
Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (SCM 17-07)
Franz Schubert: “Wandrers Nachtlied” and “Erlkönig”; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Inon Barnatan, piano
Sean Shepherd: Quintet; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Livia Sohn, violin; Daniel Phillips, viola; Anthony Manzo, double bass
Eric Korngold: Piano Quintet in E major, op. 15; St. Lawrence String Quartet; Stephen Prutsman, piano