Mahler, Stravinsky, Ravel and others’ music on this week’s “Evening Concert”

This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mahler’s “1st Symphony” from Carnegie Hall, music of Britten and Prokofiev from Chicago, Stravinsky’s “Petrushka” from San Francisco, Ravel’s “Noble and Sentimental Waltzes” from New York and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe. 

WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JUN 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 & 18, 2017

 

Monday June 12: Carnegie Hall Live! (CHL 17-11)

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

MAHLER: Adagio from Symphony No. 10

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1

 

Tuesday June 13: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-24)

Jaap van Zweden conducts Shostakovich

Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 125

(Alisa Weilerstein, cello)

Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes: A time there was. . .

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat Major, Op. 70

Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes

 

Wednesday June 14: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 17-11)

CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas

SOLOIST: Thomas Hampson, baritone

Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet

John Adams: The Wound Dresser SOLOIST: Thomas Hampson, baritone

Stravinsky: Petrushka [complete]

Stravinsky: Circus Polka [encore]

Stravinsky: Divertimento

 

Thursday June 15: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-38)

CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

SOLOIST: Anthony McGill, clarinet

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales

NIELSEN: Clarinet Concerto

TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from Swan Lake

 

Sunday June 18: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-38) Macabre

Caplet: Conte fantastique for Harp, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello Bridget Kibbey, Harp; Kristin Lee, Sean Lee, Violin; Yura Lee, Viola; Efe Baltacigil, Cello

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit for Piano Inon Barnatan, Piano

Pendeecki: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello

And

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFE 17-12)

ANTONIO VIVALDI: Concerto in F-sharp Minor for Trumpet, Strings & Continuo, Op. 10, No. 2, RV 439, La notte(ca. 1725) (originally in G Minor for solo flute)Caleb Hudson, trumpet; L.P. How& Kathleen Brauer, violins; Kimberly Fredenburgh, viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Mark Tatum, bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833 – 1897): String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 (1864)Jennifer Gilbert & Harvey de Souza, violins; Manabu Suzuki &Teng Li, violas; Clive Greensmith & Peter Stumpf, cellos