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Classical Listings
February 2016
Monday 1
9 pm The Chicago Symphony Ludovic
Morlot conducts with Denis Kozhukhin,
piano. Gershwin: “An American in Paris.”
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Stravinsky: “Jeu de cartes.” Ravel: “La
valse.” Encore: Debussy: “Jeux.” Ravel:
“Rapsodie espagnol.”
Tuesday 2
8 pm Tuesday Night with Stratton Rawson.
“How to begin an opera” An opera
inquisition by Stratton Rawson in which
Stratton demonstrates the strategies
(successful and perhaps unsuccessful) that
have been tried to get an opera from the
footlights to your heart.
Wednesday 3
9 pm The Dallas Symphony Jaap van
Zweden conducts with Alisa Weilerstein,
cello. Elgar: Cello Concerto. Fauré:
“Pavane”; Requiem.
Thursday 4
9 pm The New York Philharmonic Iván
Fischer conducts with Leonidas Kavakos,
violin. Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances.
Dutilleux: “L’arbre des songes.”
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.
Friday 5
10 am Philharmonic Friday with Peter Hall.
9 pm The Cleveland Orchestra with host
Robert Conrad. Lorin Maazel conducts with
Bruno Leonardo Gelber, piano. An all-
Mozart program: Serenade No.13 in G, “Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik”; Symphony No. 13 in F,
K. 112; Symphony in D, K. 97; Piano
Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537, “Coronation”;
Symphony No. 33 in B-flat, K. 319.
Saturday 6
1 pm The Metropolitan Opera (Live)
Mascagni: “Cavalliera rusticana.”
Leoncavallo: “Pagliacci.” Fabio Luisi
conducts with Violetta Urmana (Santuzza),
Yanghoo Lee (Turridu) and Ambrogio
Maestri (Alfio) in “Cav”; Barbara Frittoli
(Nedda), Roberto Alagna (Canio), George
Gagnidze (Tonio) and Alexey Lavrov (Silvio)
in “Pag.”
8 pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael
Lasser.
Sunday 7
1 pm Atop the Podium This week: John
Williams.
5 pm Philharmonic Friday (on Sunday)
with Peter Hall.
6 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center with host Elliott Forrest. Mozart:
Duo in G for Violin and Viola, K. 423 (Ida
Kavafian, violin; Yura Lee, viola).
Tchaikovsky: String Sextet, “Souvenir de
Florence” (The Emerson String Quartet,
together with violist Paul Neubauer and cellist
Colin Carr).
7 pm Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
with Jim Cunningham. James Gaffigan
conducts with Gabriela Montero, piano.
Bates: “White Lies for Lomax.” Ravel: Piano
Concerto in G. Wagner: “Good Friday Spell”
from “Parsifal.” Mendelssohn: Symphony
No. 5, “Reformation.”
9 pm Millennium of Music with Robert
Aubry Davis.
10 pm Pipedreams with Michael Barone.
Some Southern Sonorities: Selections from
performances recorded during the recent
American Guild of Organists Southeast
Regional Convention centered in Charlotte,
NC.
Monday 8
9 pm The Chicago Symphony Riccardo
Muti conducts with Mitsuko Uchida, piano.
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.
54. Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C, 944
(“Great”) Encore: Schubert: Symphony No.
3 in D, D. 200.
Tuesday 9
8 pm Tuesday Night with Stratton Rawson.
“How to end an opera” Once you’ve begun
your opera, the next problem is to end it in
such a way that it is indelibly memorable. In
this opera inquisition, Stratton demonstrates
the strategies composers have tried to get you
out of the opera house with either their tunes
or their names on your lips.
Wednesday 10
9 pm The Dallas Symphony Jaap van
Zweden conducts with Conrad Tao, piano;
Mason Bates, electronica. Chavez: “Sinfonia
India.” Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini. Mason Bates: “Liquid
Interface.” Dvořák: Symphony No.7.
Thursday 11
9 pm The New York Philharmonic Kurt
Masur conducts. Beethoven: Symphony No.
1 in C minor. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in
E.
Friday 12
10 am Philharmonic Friday with Peter Hall.
9 pm The Cleveland Orchestra with host
Robert Conrad. George Szell conducts with
Saramae Endich, soprano; Florence Kopleff,
alto; Ernest Haefliger, tenor; Ezio Flagello,
bass; and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
Beethoven: “Missa Solemnis.”
Saturday 13
1 pm The Metropolitan Opera (Live)
Verdi: “Il Trovatore.” Marco Amiliato
conducts with Angela Meade (Leonora),
Dolora Zajick (Azucena), Marcello Giordani
(Manrico) and Dmitri Horostovsky (Count di
Luna).
8 pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael
Lasser.
Sunday 14
1 pm Atop the Podium This week: Serge
Koussevitzky.
4 pm Polska Wesele, “A Polish Wedding”
Eileen Koteras Elibol hosts a program that
explores the unique nature of a Polish
wedding, whether in old Poland or among
Polish neighborhoods across North America
with commentary by Sophie Hodorowicz
Knab, author of “Polish Wedding Customs
and Traditions” and Rev. Czeslaw Krysa,
pastor of St. Casimirs Church in Buffalo.
5 pm Philharmonic Friday (on Sunday)
with Peter Hall.
6 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center with host Elliott Forrest. Wolf: Italian
Serenade for String Quartet (“The Orion
Quartet”). Mendelssohn: “Lieder ohne
Worte” (“Songs without Words”) (Jeremy
Denk, piano). Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1
in F minor (Elmar Oliveira, violin; Frederick
Chiu, piano).
7 pm Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
with Jim Cunningham. Gianandrea Noseda
conducts with Denis Kozhuhkin, piano.
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D
minor. Rossini: Overture to “William Tell.”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D.
9 pm Millennium of Music with Robert
Aubry Davis.
10 pm Pipedreams with Michael Barone.
Various Variants: With a good theme,
variation sets provide organists and
composers an exceptional opportunity to tour
the tonal resources of any instrument.
Monday 15
9 pm The Chicago Symphony Riccardo
Muti conducts. Bates: “Anthology of
Fantastic Zoology.” Tchaikovsky: Symphony
No. 5. Stravinsky: Suite from “The Firebird.”
Tuesday 16
8 pm Tuesday Night with Stratton Rawson.
R. Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier.” This
legendary performance from the Salzburg
Festival in 1960 that opened the brand new
“grosse festspielhaus” was captured by
Austrian Radio. Herbert von Karajan
conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in this
opera with Lisa della Casa (Die
Feldmarschallin), Otto Edelmann (Baron
Ochs), Sena Jurinac (Octavian), Erich Kunz
(Faninal) and Hilde Güden (Sophie).
Wednesday 17
9 pm The Dallas Symphony Jaap van
Zweden conducts with Nicholas Phan, tenor;
David Cooper, horn. Bach: Brandenburg
Concerto No.1. Britten: Serenade for Tenor,
Horn, and Strings. Beethoven: Symphony
No.1.
Thursday 18
9 pm The New York Philharmonic Alan
Gilbert conducts with Frank Huang, violin.
Salonen: L.A. Variations. R. Strauss: “Ein
Heldenleben.”
Friday 19
10 am Philharmonic Friday with Peter Hall.
9 pm The Cleveland Orchestra with host
Robert Conrad. Mitsuko Uchida, conductor
and piano. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in
F, K. 459; Divertimento in B-flat, K. 137;
Piano Concerto No. 19 in B-flat, K. 456.
Saturday 20
1 pm The Metropolitan Opera (Live)
Donizetti: “Maria Stuarda.” Riccardo Frizza
conducts with Sondra Radvanovsky (Maria
Stuarda); Elsa van den Heever (Elisabetta),
Celso Albelo, (Leicester) and Patrick Carfizzi
(Cecil).
8 pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael
Lasser.
Sunday 21
1 pm Atop the Podium This week: Carlos
Kleiber.
5 pm Philharmonic Friday (on Sunday)
with Peter Hall.
6 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center with host Elliott Forrest. Brahms:
Intermezzo in E-flat, Op. 117, No. 1;
Rhapsody in E-flat, Op. 119, No. 4 (Shai
Wosner, piano). Brahms: Piano Quartet in G
minor, Op. 25 (Wu Han, piano; Daniel Hope,
violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel,
cello).
7 pm Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
with Jim Cunningham. Krzysztof Urbański
conducts with Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin.
Prokofiev: Russian Overture. Mussorgsky
(orch. Ravel): “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
10 pm Pipedreams with Michael Barone.
Pipedreams Live! at Broadway Baptist: A
Texas-sized celebration of the 191-rank
Casavant organ in Fort Worth, featuring
regional soloists.
Monday 22
9 pm The Chicago Symphony Esa-Pekka
Salonen conducts with Christian Tetzlaff,
violin. Janáček: Overture to “From the House
of the Dead.” Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A
minor. Salonen: “Nyx.” Encore: Janáček:
“Sinfonietta.”
Tuesday 23
8 pm Tuesday Night with Stratton Rawson.
Verdi: “La Traviata.” Another legendary
performance recorded live at the opening of
the Salzburg Festival in 2005. On this
occasion Carlo Rizzi was on the podium
leading the Vienna Philharmonic. This is the
performance that made Anna Netrebko a star
as she assumed the role of Violetta. Equally
brilliant was the young tenor who sang
Alfredo, Rolando Villazón. Thomas Hampson
was on hand to portray Giorgio Germont.
Wednesday 24
9 pm The Dallas Symphony James
Gaffigan conducts with Peter Serkin, piano.
Prokofiev: Symphony No .3. Mozart: Piano
Concerto No. 19, K. 459. Rimsky-Korsakov:
“Capriccio espagnol.”
Thursday 25
9 pm The New York Philharmonic Alan
Gilbert conducts with Emanuel Ax, piano.
Brahms: “Tragic” Overture; Piano Concerto
No. 2 in B-flat. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
in A.
Friday 26
10 am Philharmonic Friday with Peter Hall.
9 pm The Cleveland Orchestra with host
Robert Conrad. Mitsuko Uchida, conductor
and piano. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in
E-flat, K. 271; “Jeunehomme”; Serenade No.
11, K. 375; Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.
467.
Saturday 27
2 pm The Metropolitan Opera (Live)
Berg: “Lulu.” Lothar Koenigs conducts with
Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Susan Graham
(Gershwitz) and Daniel Brenna (Alwa).
8 pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm with Michael
Lasser.
Sunday 28
1 pm Atop the Podium This week: Jean
Martinon.
5 pm Philharmonic Friday (on Sunday)
with Peter Hall.
6 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center with host Elliott Forrest. Bach: Partita
in A minor for Recorder, BWV 1013
(Michala Petri, recorder); Brandenburg
Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046 (violinist
Daniel Phillips leads an ensemble of CMS
musicians). Vivaldi: Concerto in C for
Sopranino Recorder, Strings, and Continuo,
RV 443 (Michala Petri, recorder; Cho-Liang
Lin, Lee, violins; Richard O'Neill, viola; Fred
Sherry, cello; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Kurt
Muroki, double bass; Anthony Newman,
harpsichord). Bach: Brandenburg Concerto
No. 3 in G, BWV 1048 (Ani Kavafian, Bella
Hristova, Erin Keefe, violins; Paul Neubauer,
Mark Holloway, Richard O'Neill, violas; Fred
Sherry, Jakob Koranyi, David Finckel, cellos;
Edgar Meyer, double bass; John Gibbons,
harpsichord).
7 pm Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
with Jim Cunningham. Juraj Valčhua
conducts with Joshua Roman, cello. Wagner:
“Prelude und Liebestod” from “Tristan und
Isolde.” Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet”
Overture-Fantasy. Bizet: “Carmen” Suites 1
& 2.
9 pm Millennium of Music with Robert
Aubry Davis.
10 pm Pipedreams with Michael Barone.
Music in the Museum: Performances on the
unique 1929 Skinner pipe organ that graces
the rotunda of the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Monday 29
9 pm The Chicago Symphony Esa-Pekka
Salonen conducts with Samuel Coles, flute
and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano. Debussy:
“Syrinx.” Ravel: Piano Concerto in G minor.
Messiaen: “Turangalîla-symphonie.”