Archive for the ‘WBJC Evening Concert’ Category
Tuesday 12/31/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8:00 PM The Song of the Earth The CSO celebrates the spring in music by Schumann, Goldmark and Mahler. Opening the program, Daniel Barenboim conducts Schumann’s Spring Symphony. Next, Frederick Stock conducts Carl Goldmark’s In Springtime. Rounding out the broadcast is Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde under Fritz Reiner’s baton. Robert Schumann Symphony […]
Monday 12/30/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM “Winter Holiday” Strauss, II: Overture to Die Fledermaus from An Evening with Danny Kaye Danny Kaye/Zubin Mehta, conductors Mozart: German Dance in C, K. 605, “Sleigh Ride” Leonard Bernstein, conductor Bernard: Winter Wonderland Suessdorf: Moonlight in Vermont Anderson: Sleigh Ride Skitch Henderson, piano […]
Thursday 12/26/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM TRIANO: Joy KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 PERKINISON: Louisiana Blues Strut for Solo Violin SUPPE: Overture to Light Cavalry STRAUSS: Woman’s Heart, Polka-Mazurka, Op. 166 STRAUSS: Forward!, Polka schnell, Op. 127 STRAUSS: Sport Polka, Op. 170 STRAUSS: Without a Care!, Polka Schnell, Op. 271 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Randall Goosby, […]
Wednesday 12/25/24 European Broadcasting Union!
11:00 PM A Legendary Love Story at the Royal Concertgebouw Love is in the air in this all-orchestral program from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor Elim Chan leads the ensemble in Hector Berlioz’s Le Corsaire Overture and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, with Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet concluding the program. ORCHESTRA Royal Concertgebouw […]
Tuesday 12/24/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Blomstedt Conducts Dvorak 8 This week, Herbert Blomstedt leads Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto, featuring Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniţă. Plus, hear the 1959 RCA recordings of Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Thunder and Lightning Polka, led by Fritz Reiner. Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in B Minor, […]
Monday 12/23/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Alexander Romanovsky, piano Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Act II from the Nutcracker
Thursday 12/19/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM NIELSEN: Symphony No. 1 HUMMEL: Trumpet Concerto GRIEG: Suite from Peer Gynt Arild Remmereit, conductor; George Vosburgh, trumpet
Wednesday 12/18/24 European Broadcasting Union!
11:00 PM In Switzerland with Mäkelä and Andsnes A journey to Switzerland with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra begins with the lush Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn. Then Leif Ove Andsnes tackles Grieg’s famous Piano Concerto before the program concludes with Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. The fast-rising Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä conducts. ORCHESTRA Lucerne Festival […]
Tuesday 12/17/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Reiner Rarities This broadcast celebrates the CSO’s sixth music director Fritz Reiner! Starting out the broadcast is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture, followed by Haydn’s Symphony No. 88. Next on the program are Weinberger’s Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper and Liebermann’s Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra. Concluding the broadcast, Lisa Della […]
Monday 12/16/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Handel: Messiah Ton Koopman, conductor Sunhae Im, soprano Andreas Scholl, countertenor Jörg Dürmüller, tenor Detlef Roth, baritone Westminster Symphonic Choir, chorus Joe Miller, director
