Music by Bach from Leipzig and much more on this week’s “Evening Concert”

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear the second of two “Bach-Fests” from Leipzig, Mahler’s “5th Symphony” from Chicago, an-all Baroque Music concert 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 JUL 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 & 23, 2017

Monday July 24: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2016-05)

Bachfest 02

Location: St. Nicholas' Church, Leipzig (1,2,3,6)
Performed by: Solomon's Knot (1,2,3,6); Monteverdi Choir, London (4,5); English Baroque Soloists (4,5)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner (4,5);

Soloists: Robin Tyson, countertenor (5); Paul Agnew, tenor (5); Peter Harvey, bass (5)
(1) BACH: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (I had much affliction), BWV 21, part one (21:25)
(2) BACH: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (I had much affliction), BWV 21, part two (17:27)
(3) SCHELLE: Machet die Tore weit (Throw open the gates) (08:45)
(4) BACH: Opening chorus from Laß Fürstin… (Let, Princess, let one more ray), BWV 198 (05:13)
(5) BACH: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin (With Peace and Joy I go from here), BWV 125 (23:11)
(6) BACH: Magnificat in E-flat Major, BWV 243a (26:15)

 

Tuesday July 25: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-30)

Donald Runnicles conducts Mahler’s Fifth

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (Robert Chen, violin)

Mahler: Symphony No. 5          Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

 

Wednesday, July 26: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 16-17_06)

Jeannette Sorrell, conductor/harpsichord;

Lorna McGhee, flute; Jeffrey Turner, John Moore, contrabasses.

Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata BWV42; Orchestral Suite No. 2

Vivaldi: Concerto for two cellos in G minor (Anne Martindale Williams, David Premo, cellos;)

Telemann: Grillen-Symphonie

Bach: Concerto in C Minor for Oboe, Violin, and String Orchestra (Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, oboe)

Vivaldi arr. Sorrell: “La Follia” Concerto for Two Violins (Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jennifer Ross, violins)

[PSO fill: Bach: Orch. Ste. #3: Overture; Gavotte; Bouree; and Gigue (PSO/Jansons);

Bach: Fugue in G Minor (Fritz Reiner, conductor)]

 

Thursday July 27: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-44)

In Memoriam: Music Director Emeritus, Kurt Masur

Musical highlights to include:

WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg (excerpts) from 6/16/81

ADAMS: Short Ride in a Fast Machine from 9/14/91

MOZART: Symphony No. 41 from 5/9/92

IVES: Three Places in New England, Brant Desert Forests from 5/28/94

BEETHOVEN: Leonore No 3 Overture from 9/18/98

ADES: America: A Prophesy from 1/16/99     COLEMAN: Skies of America from 7/9/97

MARTIN: Sechs Monologe aus Jederman from 1/4/01

MENDELSSOHN: Die Erste Walpurgisnacht from 2/4/09

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13 from 10/27/11

Sunday July 30: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-44)

Joachim's World

Joachim: Romanze from Drei Stücke for Violin and Piano, Op. 2

Brahms: Scherzo, WoO 2, from “F-A-E” Sonata for Violin and Piano’

Daniel Hope, Violin; Wu Han, Piano

Joachim: Sostenuto and Andante Cantabile from Hebrew Melodies (after Byron) for Viola & Piano, Op. 9

Paul Neubauer, Viola; Wu Han, Piano

Schumann: Quintet in E-flat major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 44

Wu Han, Piano; Ani Kavafian, Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Paul Neubauer, Viola;

Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello

Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (SCM 17-05)

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet #1 in D Min., Op. 89; Stephen Prutsman, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

Maurice Ravel: La Valse; Pedja Muzijevic and Pavel Kolesnikov, piano