Stuttgart Music Festival, Schubert’s “Unfinished”, Strauss’ “Oboe Concerto” & more “Evening Concert”

This week [Monday, August 4, 2014 - Sunday, August 10, 2014] on the Evening Concert it’s the “Stuttgart Music Festival” . . . then Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Wednesday the San Francisco Symphony plays Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings”; Thursday Joyce Yang plays Rachmaninoff’s 1st Piano Concerto on “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday, Chamber Music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.

WILL-FM      The Evening Concert & Prairie Performances 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (M – F & SUN)

WEEK OF AUGUST 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 & 10, 2014

 

Monday August 4: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF): (#13-06) Stuttgart Music Festival

Gachinger Kantorei (1-3); Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1-3); Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann (1-3); Soloists: Christina Landshamer, soprano (1-2); Andreas Wolf, bass (1-2);

Bach: "Komm, mein Jesu, und erquickie" from the cantata, "Ich hatte viel Bekummernis" (BWV 21)

Bach arr. Brahms: "Komm, mein Jesu, und erquickie" from the cantata #21, "Ich hatte viel Bekummernis"

Bach arr. Brahms: "Das Lamm, das erwurget ist" from the cantata #21, "Ich hatte viel Bekummernis"

Hillard Ensemble (4)  Muriel Cantoreggi, violin (4); Monika Mauch, soprano (4);

Bach: Chaconne from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 for solo violin and four voices

Nicola Boud, clarinet (5,6); Jos van Immerseel, piano (6,7);

Brahms: Sonata in F minor for clarinet and piano, Op. 120, No. 1

Brahms: Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114

Jos van Immerseel, piano (6,7); Claire Chevallier, piano (7)

Brahms: Hungarian Dances for Piano four hands, volume two (Excerpt)

 

Tuesday August 5:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) (#14-31)

Muti conducts Schubert Unfinished

Schubert:  Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (Unfinished)
Elgar:  Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (John Sharp, cello)
Schubert:  Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 125
Verdi:  Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani

 

Wednesday August 6: San Francisco Symphony (SFS) (#14-13)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; *William Bennett, oboe

Debussy-Büsser: Petite Suite

*R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1in C Minor, Op. 11

[SFS Encore: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor)]

 

Thursday August 7:  The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP) (#14-44)

Bramwell Tovey, conductor; *Joyce Yang, piano

Shostakovich:  Festive Overture           

*Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1   

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain    

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise           

Tchaikovsky:  Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, op. 31

 

Friday August 8:  Prairie Performances: Bach and Schumann: Teacher and Poet

(Allerton Music Barn Festival, 9/21/13)            William Heiles, pno

Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A Major
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9

 

Sunday August 10: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS): (#13-45)                          

Beethoven: Serenade in D Major for Flute, Violin, and Viola, Op. 25 (Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola)

Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, Ghost (Gilbert Kalish, piano; Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin; Jakob Koranyi, cello)

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2013 (SFE): (#14-11)

Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 16. Robert Ingliss, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet; Gabrielle Finck, horn; Theodore Soluri, bassoon; Jeremy Denk, piano

Erwin Schulhoff: Sextet for Strings. Jennifer Gilbert and Harvey de Souza, violins; Scott Lee and Max Mandel, violas; Keith Robinson and Felix Fan, cellos