Posts Tagged ‘Tchaikovsky’
The Finnish Connection
If ever proof was needed that musicians perform the music of their native countries with special insight, the Finnish conductor, Hannu Lintu, provided that proof with Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony this weekend. Also on the BSO program were Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini and Liszt’s Piano Concerto with soloist Stephen Hough (the reserve of the English pianist […]
Top 5
WBJC’s web maestra, Diana Ross, has suggested that we blog about a Top 5 list of some kind, so here I go with my top 5 favorite instruments: Cello, because it sounds so luscious and sonorous. It has its limitations, to be sure—the cellists can’t stand for the National Anthem at the opening of the […]
Monday 09/03/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Violinist: Glenn Dicterow Dvorak: Carnival Overture Bartok: Violin Concerto No 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 Fill: Tchaikovsky: Selections from the Nutcracker Tchaik0vsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Monday 07/30/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Bramwell Tovey Soloist: Kirill Gerstein, piano Tchaikovsky: Festival Coronation March Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 2 Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from act 4 of Swan Lake Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Thursday 06/14/12 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM conductor: Manfred Honeck violinist: Serge Zimmermann TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 Fill: Tchaikovsky: March and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from “The Nutcracker” Tchaikovksy: January from “The Seasons”
Monday 05/07/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi Violinist: Frank Peter Zimmermann Schnittke: (K)ein Sommernachtstraum Dvořák: Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, Pathétique Fill: Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Thursday 04/05/12 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Ludovic Morlot Violinist: Sarah Chang Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh WEBER: Overture to Oberon TOWER: Sequoia RAVEL: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe Fill: Buxtehude: Chaconne Ibert: Escales Tchaikovsky: “Souvenir de Florence”
Wednesday 02/15/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Rijnmond, Rivierenland & Waterland Boys Choirs Program: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet in two acts!)
Wednesday 11/10/11 Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Richard King, horn WIDMANN: Concert Overture Con Brio MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb, K. 417 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in b, Op. 74 “Pathetique”
