Thursday 7/11/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM MAZZOLI: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) BRAHMS: Violin Concerto DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” Nathalie Stutzman, conductor; Daniel Lozakovich, violin
11:00 PM MAZZOLI: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) BRAHMS: Violin Concerto DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” Nathalie Stutzman, conductor; Daniel Lozakovich, violin
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Elim Chan SOLOIST: Igor Levit, piano* Jessie Montgomery: Coincident Dances George Gershwin: Concerto in F* Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
11:00 PM Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Fritz Reiner, conductor Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone Max Raimi: Three Lisel Mueller Settings Philip Glass: Symphony No. 11
11:00 PM Richard Rodgers arr. Bennet: Victory at Sea: Suite Richard Rodgers, conductor Aaron Copland: Third Symphony Leonard Bernstein, conductor Marc Blitzstein: The Airborne Symphony Leonard Bernstein, conductor
This week Face the Music is all about endings. We have finales from 4 symphonies. Our panel was composer and organist John Bowen and Jed Gaylin from Hopkins Symphony. Here’s the listings hope you enjoyed the show. PLAY DATE: Sat, 7/6/2024 5:00 PM 57 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Op 92 CBS/Sony […]
Antje Rauwerda is a Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures at Goucher College, and she published a novel with Spuyten Duyvil earlier this year called Slow Time. I spoke to Antje for BookNotes.
Mahler’s birthday is 7/7 and David Zinman’s is 7/9! It makes sense to play some Mahler and a classic Tchaikovsky recording with the BSO. PLAY DATE: Sat, 07/06/2024 6:00 PM 200 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in f Op 36 Telarc 80228 COND David Zinman David ZIHN mihn ORCH Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 42:33 […]
On tonight’s program, and sonata by CPE Bach “for the ladies,” a major orgran work by Elgar, and a “Piano Concertette” by Morton Gould. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 53761 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sonata No. 1 “Damensonaten” in F WQ 541 Bis 1088 SOLO Miklos Spanyi, Clavichord 10:25 C 1 1-2 […]
11:00 PM MOZART: Symphony No. 31, “Paris” RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand HAYDN: Mass in Tempore Belli Manfred Honeck, conductor; Bertrand Chamayou, piano; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehaffey, director
Composers have long been enamored with the landscapes of the Scandinavian countries. Sibelius saw swans taking flight outside his cottage window in Northern Finland, resulting in the Swan Theme in his Symphony #5. Similarly, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger used the images of Northern Sweden in his Symphony #3, “Lapland”. During a musical time dominated by European composers […]