Aug.
15
2024
Thursday 8/15/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM HAYDN: Overture to Armida BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 MOZART: Ave verum corpus MOZART: Symphony No. 39 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Till Fellner, piano
Aug.
14
2024
Wednesday 8/14/24 Los Angeles Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Susanna Mälkki Soloist: Daniil Trifonov, piano* Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture Enno Poppe Fett (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund) Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2*
Aug.
13
2024
Tuesday 8/13/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Aram Khachaturian Symphony No. 3 in C Major Leopold Stokowski, conductor John Williams Suite from I for Cello and Orchestra Yo-Yo Ma, cello John Williams, conductor Zoltán Kodály Dances of Galánta Neeme Järvi, conductor César Franck Symphony in D Minor Pierre Monteux, conductor
Aug.
12
2024
Monday 8/12/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Camerata Singers Abraham Kaplan, director Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 3, Kaddish Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano Felicia Montealegre, voice Camerata Singers Columbus Boychoir Abraham Kaplan, director Donald Bryant, director Leonard Bernstein: The Dybbuk: Suites 1 and 2 Paul Sperry, tenor Bruce Fifer, […]
Aug.
11
2024
Music From Movies 8-11-24
John Lunn Downton Abbey: The Suite London 24411 COND Alastair King, conductor ORCH Chamber Orchestra of London SOLO John Lunn, pianist ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:09 PM John Williams The Witches of Eastwick: Devil’s Dance DG/Archiv 463483 SOLO Gil Shaham, violin SOLO Jonathan Feldman, piano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:15 PM Henry Mancini Moon River (from the movie Breakfast at RCA/BMG […]
Aug.
10
2024
Vocalise 8-10-24
Douglas Moore Always through the changing (Baby Doe) DG/Archiv 2469 COND Emerson Buckley ORCH New York City Opera Orchestra SOLO Beverly Sills, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:06 PM Rachel Portman The First Morning of the World Erato 646515 COND Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor ORCH Il Pomo d’Oro SOLO Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:16 PM Joaquin Rodrigo Cuatro Madrigales […]
Aug.
10
2024
8-10-24 Face The Music Listings
This week our panelists were composer John Bowen, Face the Music Panelist Emeritus the late David Donovan and the late Ed Goldstein formerly of the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble and Baltimore Jazz Orchestra. Both the Brahms and the Shostakovich were sonically pretty awful and we think there were good performances hidden underneath. Here are the listings, […]
Aug.
09
2024
Toccata listings for 8/11/24
On tonight’s program, J.S. Bach on the accordion and a vintage performance of a well-known piano concerto. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 4093 Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 2 in a BWV 807 Denon 78836 SOLO Stefan Hussong,accordion 20:44 C 1 7-12 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:24 PM 203 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. […]
Aug.
08
2024
Thursday 8/08/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM SALONEN: Helix SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 1 Juraj Valcuha, conductor; Augustine Hadelich, violin
Aug.
07
2024
Wednesday 8/07/24 Los Angeles Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Thomas Adès Soloist: Kirill Gerstein, piano* Thomas Adès: Five Spells from The Tempest Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand* Thomas Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra* Maurice Ravel: La valse
