“Carmina Burana”, “Firebird Suite” “The Nutcracker” and more on this week’s “Evening Concert”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Orff’s “Carmina Burana” from Shanghai, Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” from Chicago, Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “Shanghai Spring”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF FEB 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 & 12, 2017
Monday February 6: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-06)
[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: Long Yu; SOLOISTS: Lilian Giovanini (soprano), Berj Karazian (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Chorakademie Lübeck - Burana
Huang Yijun: Beautiful Flower and Full Moon
Qigang Chen: Luan Tan
Orff: Carmina Burana
Program also includes highlights from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy:
J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata No.5, BWV529, mvt II. Largo
J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus 14
Tuesday February 7: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-06)
Charles Dutoit conducts Stravinsky
Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Bartók: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarín, Op. 19
Wednesday February 8: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-06)
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Grams
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker
Thursday February 9: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-20)
NYP Jukebox: There, in the Night
Program to include selections from:
IVES: Central Park in the Dark
SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7
MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
MUSSORGKSY: Night on Bald Mountain
ADOLPHE: Dark Sand, Shifting Light
DUTILLEUX: The Shadows of Time
Sunday February 12: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-20) Beethoven & Brahms
Beethoven: Octet in E-flat major for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two Bassoons, and Two Horns, Op. 103
Stephen Taylor, James Austin Smith, Oboe; David Shifrin, Alexander Fiterstein, Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Marc Goldberg, Bassoon; Julie Landsman, Kevin Rivard, Horn
Brahms: Trio in E-flat major for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40
Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn; Paul Huang, Violin; Juho Pohjonen, Piano
and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival (17-02) New Series (4 Episodes)
Zhao Jiping: Imaginative Expression on the Gate of Extended Family
Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Daye Lin (conductor)
Mozart: Violin Sonata No.18 in G Major, K.301/293a
Huang Bin (violin), Yin Zheng (piano)
Wang Jianmin: Concerto of Fantasy Narrative
Young Chinese Traditional Orchestra, Wu Qiang (conductor), Lu Yiwen (erhu)
Zhao Jiping: Bringing in the Wine
Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daye Lin (conductor), Liao Changyong (baritone)