New “Orchestral” series from Shanghai and Dallas start this week on the “Evening Concert”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Lang Lang play with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben” from Chicago, Brahms’ 1st Symphony from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “This is Cabaret: Anne Hampton Callaway and Friends”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JAN 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 & 8, 2017
Monday January 2: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-01 of 13) NEW SERIES
AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY: The concert recordings of a limited number of works in this series contain brief instances of audio distortion.”
CONDUCTOR: Long Yu;
Chen Qigang: Instants d'un opéra de Pékin
Chen Gang/ He Zhanhao: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (Maxim Vengerov, violin)
Verdi: “Nei giardin del bello” from Don Carlo; Saint-Saens: “Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix” from Samson et Dalila; Trad./Zou Ye arr.: Jasmine Flower; (Ildiko Komlosi,mezzo-soprano)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.23 (Lang Lang, piano)
[Program also includes a highlight from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy: Haydn: String Quartet in D Minor, Op.76, Nr.2, Hob.Ⅲ:76, mvt I. Allegro]
Tuesday January 3: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-01)
“From the Archives” Special
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture (Theodore Thomas, conductor)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (Artur Rodzinski, conductor)
Elgar: Enigma Variations (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Final Waltz and Apotheosis from The Nutcracker (Morton Gould, conductor)
Wednesday January 4: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-01 of 13) NEW SERIES
CONDUCTOR: Jaap van Zweden
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major (including Blumine)
Thursday January 5: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-15)
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert SOLOIST: Thomas Hampson, baritone
COPLAND: Suite from Appalachian Spring
COPLAND: Selections from Old American Songs, Books 1 & II: 1. The Dodger 2. Simple Gifts 3. The Little Horses 4. The Golden Willow Tree 5. The Boatmen’s Dance
COLE PORTER: 1. Night and Day 2. Who Said Gay Paree? 3. Where Is the Life that Late I Led? 4. In the Still of the Night 5. Begin the Beguine
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (All selections from vol. 14 of Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season iTunes Pass)
Friday January 6: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (PP 17-01)
Champaign-Urbana Symphony
Stephen Alltop, Conductor; "Resurrection" (10/8/16)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 2 "Resurrection"; (Sarah Gartshore, soprano; Julie Miller, mezo-soprano
University of Illinois Oratorio Society (Andrew Megill, conductor)
Sunday January 8: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-15)
Russian Sentiment II
Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale for Cello & Piano, Op. 51, No. 6; Julie Albers, cello; Alessio Bax, p.
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque in D minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 9 Alessio Bax, Piano; Elmar Oliveira, Violin; Paul Watkins, Cello
and This is Cabaret: Anne Hampton Callaway and Friends (CAB 16-02)
Christine Ebersole
Shearing/Weiss: Lullaby of Birdland Ann Hampton Callaway Live
Ann Hampton Callaway: Improvisation Ann Hampton Callaway Live
Warren/Dubin: Lullaby of Broadway Christine Ebersole Live
Kern/Hammerstein: The Folks who live on the Hill Christine Ebersole Live
Mitchell: Woodstock; Christine Ebersole Live
Ebersole: Row, Row; Christine Ebersole Live
Kit Mink Schmink; Christine Ebersole Live
Frankel/Korie: Grey Gardens; Christine Ebersole Live
Robin/Whiting/Harling: Beyond the Blue Horizon; Christine Ebersole Live
Hampton Callaway: Improvisation; Christine Ebersole Ann Hampton Callaway Live
Gershwin: Our Love is Here to Stay; Christine Ebersole Ann Hampton Callaway Live