Archive for May, 2018
Thursday 05/31/18 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM HAYDN: The Creation Manfred Honeck, conductor; Sam Helfrich, stage director; Rachele Gilmore, soprano; Werner Gura, tenor; Alexander Elliott, bass; The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehaffey, director
Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival
My friend Don Buxton drove all the way out from Easton the other day, and we spoke about the 33rd season of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival.
Festival UMBC
I had the great pleasure of meeting with the artistic director Festival UMBC, Asiya Korepanova recently about the music festival starting it’s second season.
Playlist: May/31/18
10:56 PM Jean Sibelius — Canzonetta Opus: 62Conductor: Peter CsabaEnsemble: Virtuosi di KuhmoOndine, 830 10:23 PM Aaron Copland — Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Ballet in One Act Conductor: Oliver KnussenEnsemble: London SinfoniettaArgo, 443203 10:02 PM Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Symphonic Variations on an African Air Opus: 63Conductor: Grant LLewellynEnsemble: Royal Liverpool PhilharmonicArgo, 120623 9:52 PM Camille […]
Wednesday 05/30/18 San Francisco Symphony
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas SOLOIST: Julia Fischer, violin Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Opus 19 Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14 ENCORE: Mozart Symphony No. 38
Celebrating Poland
I recently had a chance to talk to my friend Brian Ganz about a concert honoring Poland with the National Philharmonic.
Playlist: May/30/18
10:56 PM Federico Mompou — Preludio for Guitar Carol Volk,guitarChiron, 4853 10:29 PM Aram Khachaturian — Spartacus: Ballet Suite No. 1 Conductor: Andre AnichanovEnsemble: Saint Petersburg State Symph.Naxos, 8550801 10:00 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Divertimento No. 11 Key: DEnsemble: The Amadeus EnsembleUnicorn, 9107 9:25 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4 Key: […]
Tuesday 05/29/18 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Marin Alsop conducts American Music and Dvořák Clyne: Masquerade Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Jon Kimura Parker, piano) Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Williams: Excerpts from Lincoln
Playlist: May/29/18
10:54 PM Heitor Villa-Lobos — Elegie Opus: 87Rebecca Rust,celloDavid Apter,pianoM Polo/HK, 8223527 10:08 PM Sir William Walton — Symphony No. 1 Key: b-Flat Conductor: Andre PrevinEnsemble: Royal Philharmonic OrchestraTelarc, 80125 9:58 PM Johann Strauss II — Treasure Waltz Opus: 418Ensemble: Linos-EnsembleCapriccio, 5004 9:14 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 13 Key: B-Flat Opus: […]
Monday 05/28/18 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL IVES: Holidays Symphony Leonard Bernstein, conductor COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait William Warfield, narrator and Leonard Bernstein, conductor BLITZSTEIN: Airborne Symphony Orson Welles, narrator, Andrea Velis, tenor, David Watson, baritone, Choral Arts Society, and Leonard Bernstein, conductor
