Archive for the ‘WBJC Evening Concert’ Category
Tuesday 5/07/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Zhang & Trpčeski Xian Zhang leads the CSO in Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony and Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message. In between, Simon Trpčeski joins her in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Opening the program, Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO in Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a from 1997 London recording. Conductor: […]
Monday 5/06/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Alan Opie, baritone Melissa Parks, mezzo-soprano Keith Jameson, tenor Wilbur Pauley, bass Joshua Bloom, baritone Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano Serena Benedetti, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Emalie Savoy, soprano Devon Guthrie, soprano Lacey Benter, mezzo-soprano New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus Leoš […]
Thursday 5/02/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM TCHAIKOVSKY: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin SIBELIUS: Finlandia VON SUPPE: Overture to Light Cavalry RAVEL: “The Enchanted Garden” from the Mother Goose Suite HIGDON: Fanfare Ritmico SAINT-GEORGES: Violin Concerto No. 2 WILLIAMS: “Nice to Be Around” from Cinderella Liberty STRAUSS: Final Waltz from the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Manfred Honeck, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, […]
Wednesday 5/01/24 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOIST: Bertrand Chamayou, piano* Modest Mussorgsky (ed. Kikor, G; rev. Mcalister, Clark): A Night on Bald Mountain Franz Liszt: Totentanz* Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Tuesday 4/30/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Pierre Boulez*; Jakub Hrůša Gustav Mahler: Totenfeier* Bedřich Smetana: Vysehrad, No. 1 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana: The Moldau, No. 2 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana: Sárka, No. 3 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana: From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves, No. 4 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana: […]
Monday 4/29/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Christine Brewer, soprano Jane Henschel, soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Eric Owens, bass-baritone New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director* Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123*
Thursday 4/25/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM PUCCINI (arr. Honeck/Ille): Symphonic Suite from Turandot SCHUBERT: “The Great” Symphony Manfred Honeck, conductor
Wednesday 4/24/24 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOIST: Yuja Wang, piano* Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture Magnus Lindberg: Piano Concerto No. 3* (World Premiere) Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Tuesday 4/23/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Anna Rakitina Soloist: Alisa Weilerstein, cello* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Roccoco Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suite from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a
Monday 4/22/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin* Sebastien Currier: Time Machines* Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5