Music by Berlioz, Brahms, Ravel and others on this week’s “Evening Concert”

This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Glass’ “5th String Quartet” from Carnegie Hall, Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” from Chicago, Brahms’ “Haydn Variations” from San Francisco, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe. 

WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JUN 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 & 11, 2017

 

Monday June 5: Carnegie Hall Live! (CHL 17-10)

THREE GENERATIONS: ARVO PÄRT, PHILIP GLASS, AND STEVE REICH

Performer/Ensemble: Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Violin, Todd Reynolds, Violin

Lois Martin, Viola Jeanne Le Blanc, Cello Michael Brown, Piano

Guest Host:  John Schaefer

ARVO PÄRT: Für Alina

ARVO PÄRT: Fratres

PHILIP GLASS: String Quartet No. 5

STEVE REICH: Different Trains

 

Tuesday June 6: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-23)

James Levine returns to Orchestra Hall

Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (Paris)

Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (CSO Resound Album)

 

Wednesday June 7: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 17-10)

CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas

SOLOIST:Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

Brahms Variations of a Theme by Haydn, Opus 56a

Berlioz La Mort de Cléopâtre

Berlioz "L'Île inconnue," from Les Nuits d'été, Opus 7, no.6

Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Opus 120

Brahms Serenade in A major No. 2

 

Thursday June 8: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-37)

CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

SOLOIST: Inon Barnatan, piano

SALONEN: Nyx

RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G

DEBUSSY: Jeux

STRAUSS: Rosenkavalier Suite

 

Sunday June 11: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-37)

Shostakovich & Brahms

Shostakovich Trio No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 8 Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Ida Kavafian, violin; Nicholas Altstaedt, cello

BrahmsQuartet in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 Gilbert Kalish, piano; Jessica Lee, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

           

And The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFE 17-11)

CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786 – 1826)Wiegenlied (Cradle Song), Op. 13, No. 2 (1810 – 11)Sarah Shafer, soprano; David Starobin, guitar

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929 (1827)Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello; Shai Wosner, piano