Grieg’s “Piano Concerto” leads off a week of as-always must-listen “Evening Concert"s.
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Grieg’s “Piano Concerto” from Shanghai, Bruckner’s “9th Symphony” from Chicago, Beethoven’s “5th Symphony” from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “The Shanghai Spring International Music Festival”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF FEB 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 & 26, 2017
Monday February 20: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-08)
[First ever broadcast series of a Chinese orchestra to U.S. radio audiences]
AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY: The concert recordings of a limited number of works in this series contain brief instances of audio distortion.
CONDUCTOR: Osmo Vänskä – Grieg, Berlioz
Kristian Jarvi - Scriabin
SOLOIST: Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
Scriabin: the Poem of Ecstasy
Bach: Contrapunctus 14 from The Art of Fugue; Shanghai Orchestra Academy
Tuesday February 21: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-08)
Riccardo Muti conducts Bruckner
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Bruckner: Te Deum (Erin Wall, soprano; Okka von der Damerau, mezzo-soprano;
Steve Davislim, tenor; Eric Owens, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus)
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Wednesday February 22: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-08)
CONDUCTOR: Jaap van Zweden
BARTOK Violin Concerto No. 2 (SOLOIST: Leonidas Kavakos, violin)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
Thursday February 23: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-22)
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert. *SOLOIST: Anne-Sophie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
HAYDN: Symphony No. 88 in G-major
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy-Overture, Romeo and Juliet
*SCHUBERT: Six Orchestrated Songs:
1. Die Forelle (The Trout), D.550
2. Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), D.118
3. Im Abendrot (In Evening’s Glow), D.799
4. Gesang “An Silvia” (Song “To Sylvia”), D.891
5. Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams), D.827
6. Erlkönig (Elf King), D.328
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5
Sunday February 26: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-22)
Russian Masters
Scriabin: Five Preludes for Piano, Op. 16 Wu Han, Piano
Taneyev: Quintet in G minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 30
Wu Han, Piano, Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Aaron Boyd, Violin; Pierre Lapointe, Viola; Brook Speltz, Cello)
and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival (17-04) (of 4)
Barber: Canzone. Orchestra 2001 ensemble
Zhao Jiping: Three Songs on Ancient Poems
Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Daye Lin (conductor), Zhang Ningjia (soprano)
George Crumb: Dream Sequence
Orchestra 2001 ensemble
Deqing Wen: The Shepherd Boy’s Flute
Orchestra 2001 ensemble
Mozart: Sonata No.35, finale
Huang Bin (violin), Yin Zheng (piano)