Beethoven, Rodrigo, Rachmaninoff, Schubert and more on this week’s “Evening Concert”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto” from Shanghai, Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” from Chicago, Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “This is Cabaret”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JAN 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 & 15, 2017
Monday January 9: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-02 of 13) New Series
[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: Sir Andrew Davis - Berlioz, Beethoven, Holst
*SOLOISTS: Eoin Andersen (violin), Liwei Qin (cello), Du Ningwu (piano)
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
*Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op.56
Holst: The Planets featuring the Shanghai Opera House Chorus Female Choir
Joint performance by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
[SSO fill: Verdi: Overture from Nabucco Shanghai Symphony Orchestra only (conductor, Daniele Gatti)]
Tuesday January 10: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-02)
Charles Dutoit conducts Falla
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Javier Perianes, piano)
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (Daniella Mack, mezzo-soprano)
[CSO fill: Falla: El amor brujo from 1963 RCA (Leontyne Price, soprano; Fritz Reiner, conductor)]
Wednesday January 11: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-02 of 13) New Series
CONDUCTOR: Yan Pascal Tortelier; *SOLOIST: Pepe Romero, guitar
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
*RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
FRANCK Symphony
HIGDON, Jennifer (b. 1962, USA): blue cathedral
Thursday January 12: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-16)
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert; *SOLOISTS: Barbara Hannigan, soprano
BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b (1806)
LINDBERG, Magnus (b. 1958, Finland): Souvenir (in memoriam Gérard Grisey)
*GRISEY, Gerard (1946 – 98, France): Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold), for soprano and ensemble
MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 (1788)
Friday January 13: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (PP 17-02) Millikin- Decatur Symphony
Sergey Bogza, conductor (9/24/16)
Debussy: The Sunken Cathedral
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mikhail Yanovitsky, piano)
Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Sunday January 15: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-16)
Nights in Vienna
Schubert: Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano (“Duo”), D. 574, Op. 162.
Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Juho Pohjonen, Piano
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for String Sextet, Op. 4 Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Huang, Violin; Matthew Lipman, Mark Holloway, Viola; Paul Watkins, David Finckel, Cello
and
This Is Cabaret with Curtis Stigers (CAB 16-03 of four)
Host: Ann Hampton Callaway
Segal/Fisher: I Keep Going Back to Joe’s Curtis Stigers Live
Mann/Curtis: Never Saw A Miracle Curtis Stigers Live
Dylan: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight Curtis Stigers Live
Hilliard/Mann: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning Curtis Stigers Live
Stigers/Sneider: Hooray for Love Curtis Stigers Live
Myrow/Gordon: You Make Me Feel So Young Curtis Stigers Live
Porter: Er’ry Time We Say Goodbye Ann Hampton Callaway Curtis Strigers, Sax Live
Hamilton/Lewis: How High The Moon Ann Hampton Curtis Stigers Live
Gershwin: They Can’t Take From Me Ann Hampton Callaway Curtis Stigers Live
The Band: Bennett Paster, piano; Martin Wind, Bass; Paul Wells, drums