Music by Beethoven, Berlioz, Mussorgsky, and others on this week’s “Evening Concert"s
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear “Music Director Profiles #4: Kurt Masur” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, then Beethoven’s “1st Piano Concerto” from Chicago, Berlioz’ “Symphonie fantastique” from San Francisco, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” from Pittsburgh, and Sunday chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JUN 4 –5 – 6 – 7 & 10, 2018
Monday June 4: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-36)
Music Director Profile #4: Kurt Masur (Patterns error lists subject as Zubin Mehta)
All selections are excerpts except those marked with the asterisk: *those are complete works.
Conductor: Kurt Masur
Soloists: Hans Sotin, bass; Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; New York Choral Artists; Kevin McMillan, baritone; Sergei Leiferkus, baritone
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale”
*Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave” Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
*Wagner: Was duftet doch der Flieder from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Montagues & Capulets
Mendelssohn: Elijah Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
*Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
*Brahms: Movement IV from Symphony No. 4 in e-minor
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture
*Mendelssohn: Overture to Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
*Ellington/Marsalis: A Tone Parallel to Harlem
*Brahms: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen from Ein Deutches Requiem
*Shostakovich: Movements IV & V from Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar”
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
Tuesday June 5: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 18-23)
Sir András Schiff Performs and Conducts
Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major
Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra
J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 (Sir András Schiff, piano)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (Sir András Schiff, piano)
Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps (Sir Mark Elder, conductor)
Wednesday June 6: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 18-10)
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Opus 19 Soloist: Julia Fischer, violin
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14
Encore: Mozart Symphony No. 38
Thursday June 7: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 17-18_10)
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Paganini: Sonata per la Grand Viola
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Lionel Bringuier, conductor; Randolph Kelly, viola
[PSO fill: Bizet: Farandole from “L’Arlesienne”; & Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole. PSO/Lorin Maazel]
Sunday June 10: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-37)
Variations
Beethoven: Variations in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 44 Op. 162
Orion Weiss, Piano; Sean Lee, Violin; Paul Watkins, Cello
Brahms: Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two
Cellos, Op.18. Sean Lee, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violins; Matthew Lipman, Richard O'Neill, Violas; Keith Robinson, David Finckel, Cellos
AND
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFS 18-11)
Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian No. 2” (1790)
Johannes String Quartet
(Performance: July 25, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion (1937)
Anderson & Roe Piano Duo; Daniel Druckman & Greg Zuber, percussion
(Performance: August 20, 2017, Lensic Performing Arts Center)