Music by Sibelius, Mozart, Mahler, Bruch and others on this week’s “Evening Concert"s
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear an all-Sibelius program on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, then Mozart’s “5th Violin Concerto” from Chicago, Mahler’s “9th Symphony” from San Francisco, Bruch’s “1st Violin Concerto” from Pittsburgh, and Sunday chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF MAY 14 –15 – 16 – 17 & 20, 2018
Monday May 14: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-33)
A SIBELIUS SOJOURN
SIBELIUS: Finlandia; Zubin Mehta, conductor
SIBELIUS: Pohjola’s Daughter; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto; Zino Francescatti, violin and Leonard Bernstein, conductor
SIBELIUS: II: Melisande: from Pelléas et Mélisande; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2; Lorin Maazel, conductor
Tuesday May 15: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 18-20)
Edo de Waart and Augustin Hadelich (repeat of CSO 16-11)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K.219 “Turkish” (Augustin Hadelich, violin)
Paganini Caprice No. 5 for solo violin (encore); (Augustin Hadelich, violin)
Adams: Harmonielehre
[CSO fill: J. C. Bach: Symphony in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6 (Nicholas McGegan, conductor)]
Wednesday May 16: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 18-07)
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major
ENCORE: Debussy La Mer
Thursday May 17: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 17-18_07)
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Egmont
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Ray Chen, violin)
PAGANINI: Caprice No. 21 for solo violin (encore) (Ray Chen, violin)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5
[PSO fill: R. STRAUSS: excerpt from “Ein Heldenleben” (Manfred Honeck, cond. Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin)]
Kryzysztof [SHISS-toff] Urbanski, conductor
Sunday May 20: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-34)
The Power of Two
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie in A major for Violin and Harp, Op. 124
Kristin Lee, Violin; Bridget Kibbey, Harp
Debussy: Six épigraphes antiques for Piano, Four Hands
Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano; Gilbert Kalish, Piano
Boëllmann: Sonata in A minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40
Gary Hoffman, Cello; David Selig, Piano
AND
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFS 18-08)
BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 3 (1927)
Johannes String Quartet
(Performance: July 27, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)
SHOSTAKOVITCH: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 (1940)
Inon Barnatan, piano; Dover Quartet: Joel Link & Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello
(Performance: August 21, 2017, Lensic Performing Arts Center)