Young Composer’s “Viola Concerto” “Unearth, Release” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Philharmonic Principal Violist Cynthia Phelps is the soloist in Julia Adolphe’s ‘Unearth, Release’ recorded just last month in New York. Also on the program: Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony.

Thursday December 15: The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-12)

van Zweden and Phelps Perform Wagner, Adolphe, and Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Jaap van Zweden; *SOLOIST: Cynthia Phelps, viola

WAGNER: Prelude to Act 1, Lohengrin

*JULIA ADOLPHE (b.1988 usa): Unearth, Release (Concerto for Viola & Orchestra)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4

Read Alex Ross' original article about the concerto by Adolphe here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/a-composers-debut-at-the-philharmonic