Dvorak’s “Cello Concerto” is one of the many featured works on this week’s “Evening Concent” series
This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto” from Shanghai, Mahler’s 7th Symphony from Chicago, Dvorak’s “Cello Concerto” from Dallas, “The New York Philharmonic This Week” and Sunday. . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and “The Cradle That Rocked: Re-Discovering Marc Blitzstein”.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF MAR 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 & 19, 2017
Monday March 13: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO 17-11)
[First ever broadcast series of a Chinese orchestra to U.S. radio audiences]
AUDIO QUALITY ADVISORY: The concert recordings of a limited number of works in this series contain brief instances of audio distortion.
CONDUCTOR: Paavo Järvi - Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Stravinsky
Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 SOLOIST: Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919 version)
[SSO fill: Mozart Symphony No. 40; Shanghai Symphony/Neville Marriner]
[SSO fill: Verdi: Otello Overture; Shanghai Symphony/Daniele Gatti, conductor]
Tuesday March 14: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 17-11)
Bernard Haitink conducts Mahler
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B-flat Major, Hob. I:105 (Robert Chen, violin; John Sharp, cello; Eugene Izotov, oboe; David McGill, bassoon)
Wednesday March 15: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO 17-11)
CONDUCTOR: Jun Märkl (Dvorak) Jaap van Zweden (Bach-Webern, Wagner)
SOLOIST: Daniel Müller-Schott, cello
DVORAK Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191
BACH-WEBERN Ricercare
WAGNER Die Walküre: Act 1; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; Simon O’Neil, Tenor; Kristinn Sigmundsson, Bass
Thursday March 16: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 17-25)
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert
SOLOISTS: Robert Langevin, flute; Emanuel Ax, piano
BARTOK: Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin
ROUSE: Flute Concerto
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto in f-minor
TCHAIKOVKSY: Symphony No. 4
Sunday March 19: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 16-25)
Mozart - Unlimited Inspiration
Mozart Serenade in C minor for Winds, K. 388
James Austin Smith, Stephen Taylor, Oboe; David Shifrin, Alexander Fiterstein, Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Marc Goldberg, Bassoon; Kevin Rivard, Julie Landsman, Horn
Mozart Quartet in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 478
Wu Qian, Piano; Paul Huang, Violin; Matthew Lipman, Viola; Sophie Shao, Cello
and The Cradle that Rocked: Revisiting Marc Blitzstein (BLI 16-03) (of 4)
Act 3 – Mack the Knife on Broadway
Composer Marc Blitzstein was a man who straddled many genres, from classical to Broadway. He could make text and music marry each other in simple and glorious ways. We’ll hear Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, and Lotte Lenya in this episode, about Blitzstein’s brilliant adaptation of Threepenny Opera. Blitzstein’s own songwriting was remarkably focused and spare – pared down to the most basic elements – yet with fiery results. One of the highlights of this episode is
Marc’s friend Paul Robeson singing “Purest Kind of a Guy.” Joshua Schmidt wrote, “How many of us nowadays are willing to put work out into the world in the teeth of forces that will quash and censor it? Who in modern American music and theatrical history offers a greater example of such bravery than Blitzstein?”
0:54 Marc Blitzstein, arr. Stephen Sondheim Never Get Lost Dawn Upshaw I Wish It So Electra Nonesuch 79345
0:17 Kurt Weill Threepenny Prologue 1954 Orig. Broadway Cast The Threepenny Opera Decca Broadway - 012 159463-2
1:14 Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht (Blitzstein adaptation); arr. Louis Armstrong Mack the Knife (Session Takes from The Threepenny Opera) Lotte Lenya, Eric Bentley, George Tabori, Instrumental Ensemble, Jack Gilford, Louis Armstrong & His All Stars, Ludwig Lewisohn, Marc Blitzstein, Maurice Levine & Turk Murphy Lenya Sings Weill- The American Theatre Songs Sony Classical – MHK 60647
1:09 Marc Blitzstein, arr David Robbins The Cradle Will Rock (finale) Steven Tyler;Henry Stram;Tim Jerome The Cradle Will Rock (soundtrack) RCA Victor 09026-63577-2
1:04 Marc Blitzstein Summer Weather Original 1985 Cast (The Acting Company) & Patti LuPone The Cradle Will Rock JAY Records JAY 1300 (CD, LP)
2:04 Marc Blitzstein Quartet For Strings: Italian mvt 4. "Lento" Del Sol Quartet First Life- Early Chamber Works of Marc Blitzstein OM 1017-2 (2009)
2:35 Marc Blitzstein The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birthday Song) Paul Robeson Songs of Free Men Sony BMG Music 1997 re- release
5:32 Marc Blitzstein Zipperfly William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano Zipperfly And Other Songs Koch CD 6644
3:20 Marc Blitzstein I Wish It So Dawn Upshaw I Wish It So Electra Nonesuch 79345-2
6:06 Marc Blitzstein Rose Song William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano Zipperfly And Other Songs Koch CD 6644
1:21 english traditional The Countryman's Joy The City Waites Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England Naxos 8557672
1:37 Kurt Weill Moritat von Mackie Messer Ensemble Modern;HK Gruber;Max Raabe Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenope r BMG
Classics - 7432166133 2
3:19 Kurt Weill Mack the Knife 1954 Orig. Broadway Cast The Threepenny Opera Decca Broadway- 012 159463-2
0:43 Kurt Weill Useless Song 1954 Orig. Broadway Cast Threepenny Opera (original off-Broadway cast) Decca Broadway - 012 159463-2
0:51 Kurt Weill Instead-Of Song 1954 Orig. Broadway Cast Threepenny Opera (original off-Broadway cast) Decca Broadway - 012 159463-2
1:25 Kurt Weill Pirate Jenny Lotte Lenya:The Threepenny Opera (Original Off Broad Threepenny Opera (original off-Broadway cast) Decca Broadway- 012 159463-2
4:18 Marc Blitzstein Blues William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano Zipperfly And Other Songs Koch CD 6644
1:25 Kurt Weill, arr. Louis Armstrong Satchmo-Mack the Knife Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars CBS 88079
1:03 Kurt Weill, arr. Bobby Darin Mack the Knife Bobby Darin The Ultimate Bobby Darin Warner 9-27606-2
1:30 Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht (Blitzstein adaptation) Mack the Knife (Ella live in 1966) Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington Orchestra & Jimmy Jones Trio Ella & Duke at The Côte d'Azur (Live) Eagle Vision -EREDV431
1:13 Bob Dylan When the Ship Comes In Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' Columbia COL CD 32021
2:13 Kurt Weill Pirate Jenny (Nina) Nina Simone The Best of Nina Simone Philips 82246-2
0:54 Kurt Weill Tango Ballad 1954 Orig. Broadway Cast Threepenny Opera (original off-Broadway cast) Decca Broadway - 012 159463-2
0:54 Marc Blitzstein Art for Art's Sake Randle Mell The Cradle Will Rock (soundtrack) JAY Records JAY 1300 (CD, LP)