New this week on the “Evening Concert”: the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the LA Philharmonic
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear cellist Alisa Weilerstein with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma with the CSO, Mahler’s 5th Symphony from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, plus “The New York Philharmonic This Week” then Sunday chamber music from Lincoln Center and a new series “Song: Mirror of the World”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF JAN. 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 & 10, 2016
Monday January 4: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO 15-01)
Edo de Waart, conductor; BRITTEN: "Four Sea Interludes" from Peter Grimes, Opus 33a
ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (Alisa Weilerstein, cello)
DVORÁK: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 [old No. 4]
Tuesday January 5: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 16-01)
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays Lalo and Saint-Saëns with conductor Charles Dutoit
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète (Robert Chen, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
Lalo: Cello Concerto (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
[CSO fill: Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Cristian Macelaru, conductor)]
Wednesday January 6: Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP 15-01)
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; *SOLOISTS: So Percussion
*David LANG (US, b. 1978): Man Made (US premiere, LAPA co-commision)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5
Thursday January 7: The New York Philharmonic This (NYP 16-15)
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (SOLOIST: Kirill Gerstein, piano)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905
Friday January 8: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
Sinfonia da Camera Ian Hobson, conductor The Immortal Beethoven (11/16/12)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21; Prometheus, Op.43
Robert Chumbley (US, b. 19___: The Letter (Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone)
Sunday January 10: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 15-15)
Schubert: Fantasy for Violin & Piano, D. 934; Benjamin Beilman, Violin; Juho Pohjonen, Piano
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor for Strings, Op. 80 The Pacifica Quartet
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Song: Mirror of the World (with Thomas Hampson) (15-02)
Vienna, Crossroads of Change
At the turn of the 18th century, Imperial Vienna was the setting for political as well as artistic upheaval. A new yearning for individual expression gave Schubert the impetus to forge poetry and music into a fresh, powerful metaphor for human experience. This was the birth of the Lied, the cornerstone of classic song. We hear Schubert’s game-changing song “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” plus masterpieces by Mozart, Reichardt, Weber, and Beethoven. Writer: Morten Solvik, musicologist and director of the Institute for the International Education of Students, Vienna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Die ihr einem neuen Grad” (fr. Lied zur Gesellenreise, K. 468) [2.53]
Werner Güra, tenor; Christoph Berner, piano Harmonia Mundi HMC 901979
Rouget de Lille: “La Marseillaise” [1 verse -1.00] Lily Pons, soprano; unnamed orchestra Sandy Hook Records - “Great Voices on Radio: Rare Broadcast Vocal Performances 1941-46”
Marx Augustin: “O, du lieber Augustin” [portion-0.45] Wilfried Zelinka, baritone; Armonico Tributo Austria; Lorenz Duftschmid, conductor CPO 999919
Carl Maria von Weber: “Gebet während der Schlacht” [4.07] Gerald Finley, bariton; Graham Jonson, piano Hyperion CDJ 33051/3
Franz Joseph Haydn: Kaiserhymne “Gott erhalte Franz, der Kaiser” [1 verse -1.03] Elly Ameling,soprano; Jörg Demus, piano Brilliant Classics 31256
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Lied der Trennung” [5.02] Barbara Bonney, soprano; Geoffrey Parson,piano Teldec 6229463342
Johann Friedrich Reichhardt: “Der Alpenjäger” [3.19] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Maria Graf,harp Orfeo C2455921A
Carl Maria von Weber: “Abendsegen” [1 verse-1.30] Thomas Hampson baritone; Geoffrey Parsons,piano
Franz Joseph Haydn: “Morag” [1 verse-2.48] Werner Güra, tenor; Julia Schroeder, violin; RoelDieltiens, cello; Christoph Berner, pi-ano Harmonia Mundi 902144
Ludwig Berger: “Des Müllers Wanderlied” [1.55] Mark Padmore, tenor; Graham Johnson, pianoHyperion CDJ 33051/3
Franz Schubert: “Wohin” [2.10] Thomas Quasthoff, baritone; Justus Zeyen, piano DG 000508102
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Die Ehre Gottes in der Natur” [2.31] Jessye Norman, soprano; James Levine, piano Philips 000550902
Friedrich Zelter: “Rastlose Liebe” [2.17] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Aribert Reimann, piano Orfeo C097841A
Franz Schubert: “Gretchen am Spinnrade” [3.39] Elly Ameling, soprano; Jörg Demus, piano
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