MON.

MAY  1  William Lawes (1602) / Hugo Alfvén (1872) / Felipe Boero (1884) / Leo Sowerby (1895) / Walter Susskind (1913)PRIVATE

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Komm Lieber Mai «» The arrival of the beautiful month of May is ushered in with songs from different countries relating to it.

6:55 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

7 pm

Monday Evening Piano Concerto

8 pm

GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Alfred Cortot «» Music of Liszt, Chopin, and Saint-Saëns

9 pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Overture);  Mozart: Adagio for Piano in B Minor, K. 540;  Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19

10 pm

Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, op. 60 (Suite);  Shostakovich: Piano Concerto #1 in C Minor, op. 35

11 pm

Schubert (orch. Webern): 6 German Dances, D. 820;  Britten: Spring Symphony, op. 44

 

 

TUE.

MAY  2  Alessandro Scarlatti (1660) / Hans Christian Lumbye (1810) / Lorenz Hart (1895) / Bing Crosby (1904) / Alan Rawsthorne (1905) / Oivin Fjeldstad (1903) / Jan Hanus (1915) / Horst Stein (1928)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Music in Time and Space «» Today’s program calls attention to music’s capacity to transcend chronological time and geographical space.

6 pm

Berlioz: Grande Smphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, op. 15

7 pm

Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, op. 102

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «» The Centennial of the Met’s Journey into the San Francisco Earthquake

 

 

WED.

MAY  3  Johann Baptist Krumpholz (1742) / Richard d’Oyly Carte (1844) / Marcel Dupré (1886) / Virgil Fox (1912) / Betty Comden (1919) / Pete Seeger (1919)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Influential Evidence «» A program examining outside influences on composers.

9 pm

Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Overture);  Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet;  Mozart: Symphony #38 in D Major, K. 504 “Prague”

10 pm

Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, op. 79a;  Brahms: Quintet for Strings #2 in G Major, op. 111

11 pm

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ in C Minor, S. 582;  Sibelius: Symphony #1 in E Minor, op. 39

 

 

THU.

MAY  4  Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655) / Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860) / Frederick Jacobi (1891) / Roberta Peters (1930) / Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931) / Marisa Robles (1937)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Obligatory Notes «» An illustration of obbligato, an additional and subordinate melody specifically written out by the composer which compliments and ornaments the main melodic line.

6 pm

Brusselmans: Flemish Rhapsody;  Haydn: Symphony #83 in G Minor “The Hen”

7 pm

Suk: Serenade for String Orchestra in E-flat Major, op. 6;  Elgar: The Crown of India, op. 66 (Suite)

8 pm

Roylance/Galvin: Battle of the Atlantic

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «» New Folk «» Annie Gallup: Half of My Crime;  Dougie MacLean: Inside the Thunder;  The Cottars: Forerunner;  James Krueger: Bluebird in the Snow;  Lynn Miles: Love Sweet Love;  Jeff Talmadge: BlissvillePutumayo Presents the Caribbean;  Ray Korona Band: The Safe Thing To Do

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Tobin Mueller: Morning Whispers;  Patrick Gorman: Sounds from the Wisihing Well

 

 

FRI.

MAY  5  Thomas Linley (1756) / Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819) / Hans Pfitzner (1869) / Charles Rosen (1927)

10 am

Mozart: Violin Concerto #3 in G Major, K. 216

11 am

Vieuxtemps: Sonata for Viola and Piano in B-flat Major, op. 36

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» A Classical Romance: Brahms «» Today’s program features the music of Brahms which underlines his double identity as both a classicist and a romanticist.

 

 

SAT.

MAY  6  Giuseppe Petri (1886) / Jascha Horenstein (1899) / George Perle (1915) / Godfrey Ridout (1918) / Richard Stilwell (1942)

9 am

Vivaldi: La Cetra, op. 9 (#5 Concerto for Violin and Strings in A Minor, R. 358)

10 am

Brahms: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, op. 34

11 am

Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 in A Minor, op. 56 “Scottish”

noon

Mozart: Symphony #31 in D Major, K. 297 “Paris”

1 pm

Schubert: Octet for Winds and Strings in F Major, D. 803 (op. 166)

2 pm

Gershwin (arr. Litton): Porgy and Bess (Concert Suite)

3 pm

Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano (Overture)

6 pm

ONE GREAT SONG «» What’s New? «» Recordings by George Benson, Linda Ronstadt, Clifford Brown, Jackie McLean, Arthur Prysock, and Warren Vaché

 

 

SUN.

MAY  7  Carl Stamitz (1745) / Johannes Brahms (1833) / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840) / Elisabeth Söderström (1927)

3 pm

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor; Maxim Vengerov, violin «» Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #1 in A Minor, op. 99;  Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E Minor, op. 93

 

 

MON.

MAY  8  Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829) / Ferenc Korbay (1846) / David Van Vactor (1906) / Keith Jarrett (1945)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Slavic Tchaikovsky «» Music by the Russian master with a particular Slavic bent.

6:55 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

7 pm

Monday Evening Piano Concerto

8 pm

GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Rudolf Firkusny «» Music of Smetana, Martinu, Dvorak, and Janacek

9 pm

Gottschalk: Symphony #1 “A Night in the Tropics”

10 pm

Janacek: Glagolithic Mass

11 pm

Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, op. 22

 

 

TUE.

MAY  9  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525) / Giovanni Paisiello (1740) / Carlo Maria Giulini (1914) / Billy Joel (1949) / Anne Sofie von Otter (1955)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Name the Composer «» The monthly mystery composer quiz, challenging you to identify a well-known composer through his music.

6 pm

Meyerbeer (arr. Lambert): Les Patineurs

7 pm

Poulenc: The Model Animals

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Mad About Auber: Early 19th Century French Opéra-Comique

 

 

WED.

MAY  10  Jean-Marie Leclair (1697) / Max Steiner (1888) / Dmitri Tiomkin (1894) / Milton Babbitt (1916) / Maxim Shostakovich (1938)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» The Spice of Life «» A program on the history and uses of the compositional form known as “theme and variations”.

9 pm

Mozart: The Impresario, K. 486 (Overture);  Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra; Elgar: The Wand of Youth, op. 1

10 pm

Ives: String Quartet #1 “From the Salvation Army”;  Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, op. 37;  Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, op. 64 (excerpts)

 

 

THU.

MAY  11  Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791) / Anatol Liadov (1855) / Joseph Marx (1882) / Alma Gluck (1884) / Irving Berlin (1888) / William Grant Still (1895) / Bidu Sayão (1902)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Going for Baroque «» A look at the colorful music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

6 pm

Paganini: Violin Concerto #1 in D Major, op. 6;  Sullivan: Macbeth (Concert Overture)

7 pm

Verdi: Jérusalem (Ballet Music);  Schumann: Konzertstück for 4 Horns and Orchestra in F Major, op. 86

8 pm

Zemlinsky: Symphony #2 in B-flat Major;  Mendelssohn: Symphony for Strings #1 in C Major

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «» Reflections «» Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen: At the Turning of the Year;  Christopher Shaw: Adirondack Serenade;  Rex Fowler: Gettysburg;  Tony Rice Unit: Unit of Measure

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Thomas Barth: Beyond Black and White;  Peter Kater: Fire

 

 

FRI.

MAY  12  Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739) / Giovanni Viotti (1755) / Jules Massenet (1842) / Gabriel Fauré (1845) / Sir Lenox Berkeley (1903) / Giulietta Simionato (1910)

10 am

Mozart: Violin Concerto #4 in D Major, K. 218

11 am

Chopin: Sonata for Piano #3 in B Minor, op. 58

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Unsung Heroes «» In honor of Mother’s Day, a program featuring music inspired by the mothers of famous musicians.

 

 

SAT.

MAY  13  Wojciech Zywny (1756) / Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842) / Raoul Laparra (1876)

9 am

Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K. 466

10 am

Sullivan: The Tempest (Incidental Music)

11 am

Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 in B Minor, op. 74 “Pathétique”

noon

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, op. 58;  Albinoni (arr. Giazzotto): Adagio for Organ and Strings  in G Minor

1 pm

Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, op. 24;  Copland: The Red Pony (Film Score) (Suite)

2 pm

Haydn: Symphony #82 in C Major “The Bear”;  Mozart: Adagio and Fugue for Strings in C Minor, K. 546

3 pm

Haazen: Missa Luba (An African Mass)

6 pm

ONE GREAT SONG «» Stars Fell on Alabama «» Recordings by Alberta Hunter, Ray Brown, Manne/Previn, Play Buck Clayton, Stan Getz, Roy Eldridge, and Ella & Louis

 

 

SUN.

MAY  14  Johann Peder Hartmann (1805) / Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873) / Otto Klemperer (1885) / Lou Harrison (1917)

3 pm

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Sir Colin Davis, conductor; Ian Bostridge, tenor; Glenn Dicterow, violin «» Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, op. 7;  Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 “Haffner”

 

 

MON.

MAY  15  Claudio Monteverdi (1567) / Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759) / Michael Balfe (1808) / Lars-Erik Larsson (1908) / Arthur Berger (1912) / John Lanchbery (1923) / Brian Eno (1948)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Four on the Floor «» A look at how composers utilize doublings of instruments in their scores.

6:55 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

7 pm

Monday Evening Piano Concerto

8 pm

GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Myra Hess «» Music of Beethoven, Scarlatti, Granados, and Schumann

9 pm

Larrson: Förklädd gud, op. 24

10 pm

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

 

 

TUE.

MAY  16  Richard Tauber (1892) / Woody Herman (1913) / Friedrich Gulda (1930) / Donald Martino (1931)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Bohemian Magic «» Today’s program explores the qualities which endear Bohemian music to so many music lovers.

6 pm

Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, op. 56

7 pm

Schumann: Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, op. 97 “Rhenish”

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Celebrating Birgit Nilsson (Lynne Strow, guest)

 

 

WED.

MAY  17  Erik Satie (1866) / Werner Egk (1901) / Fausto Cleva (1902) / Zinka Milanov (1906) / Birgit Nilsson (1918) / Peter Mennin (1923) / Gabriel Bacquier (1924) / Paul Crossley (1944)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» The Heart of the Matter «» The beauty and importance of slow movements in large-scale works.

9 pm

Delius: Brigg Fair (An English Rhapsody);  Satie: Trois morceaux en forme de poire (for Piano 4-Hands);  Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite)

10 pm

Kodály: Marosszek Dances;  Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191;  Glière: Symphony #3 in B Minor, op. 42 “Ilya Muromets”

 

 

THU.

MAY  18  Karl Goldmark (1830) / Bernard Zweers (1854) / Ezio Pinza (1892) / Clifford Curzon (1907) / Boris Christoff (1918) / Rick Wakeman (1949)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Lettered Notes «» A sampling of pieces whose meaning is spelled out in words printed in the score.

6 pm

Tchaikovsky: Suite for Orchestra #2 in C Major, op. 53

7 pm

Rheinberger: Organ Concerto #2 in G Minor, op. 177;  Svendsen: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, op. 26

8 pm

Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9;  Palmer: Classical Suite for Harp

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «» Simon and Garfunkel—Old Friends «» Simon and Garfunkel: Old FriendsGuitarist/Composer Sampler

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Barry Franklin: Time and Again;  Alberto Iglesias: The Constant Gardener;  Steve Hackett & The Underworld Orchestra: Metamorphosis

 

 

FRI.

MAY  19  Johann Froberger (1616) / Johann Friedrich Peter (1746) / Alice Mary Smith (1839) / Dame Nellie Melba (1861) / Sandy Wilson (1924) / Pete Townshend (1945) / David Helfgott (1947)

10 am

Mozart: Violin Concerto #5 in A Major, K. 219

11 am

Vieuxtemps: Sonata for Viola and Piano in B-flat Major, op. 60 (op. posth. 14; unfinished)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Fisher Fiesta «» Today’s program celebrates the American music patron, Avery Fisher.

 

 

SAT.

MAY  20  Ion Dumitrescu (1913) / Hephzibah Menuhin (1920)

9 am

Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Hob. III:31 (op. 20/#1)

10 am

Finzi: Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 40

11 am

Nielsen: Symphony #4, op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”

noon

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, op. 104;  Debussy: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune

1 pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 “Sinfonia Antartica”;  Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusina (Concert Overture), op. 32

2 pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 “Emperor”;  Lloyd Webber: Cats (Suite for Orchestra)

3 pm

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

6 pm

ONE GREAT SONG «» Isn’t It Romantic? «» Recordings by Jimmy Raney & Bob Brookmeyer, Bobby Short, Art Tatum, Chet Baker, Roberta Flack, Hank Jones, and Houston Person

 

 

SUN.

MAY  21  Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904) / Gina Bachauer (1913) / Heinz Holliger (1931) / Maurice André (1933)

3 pm

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Angela Gheorghiu, soprano «» Rossini: The Thieving Magpie (Overture);  Catalani: La Wally (“Ebben, ne andrò lontana”);  Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (“Io son l’umile ancella”);  Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo);  Verdi: La Forza del Destino (“Pace, pace, mio Dio”);  Verdi: Otello (Ballet Music);  Ponchielli: La Gioconda (“Dance of the Hours”);  Puccini: Madama Butterfly (“Un bel dì”);  Puccini: La Rondine (“Chi il bel sogno di Doretta”);  Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (“O mio babbino caro”);  Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (Overture);  Rossini: William Tell (Overture) (excerpt);  Grigoriu: Valurile Dunaril” (Folk Song);  traditional: “Auld Lang Syne”

 

 

MON.

MAY  22  Thomas Walmisley (1783) / Richard Wagner (1813) / Joachim Raff (1822) / Jean Cras (1879) / John Browning (1933) / Peter Nero (1934)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Volks Wagner «» A program centered on Wagner’s fairly rare folk elements.

6:55 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

7 pm

Monday Evening Piano Concerto

8 pm

GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Shura Cherkassky «» Music of Balakirev, Chopin, Strauss/Schultz-Evler, Albéniz/Godowsky, and Litolff

9 pm

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (for Soprano and Orchestra)

10 pm

Raff: Symphony #8 in A Major, op. 205 “Frühlingsklänge”

11 pm

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Prelude to Act 1 and “Liebestod”)

 

 

TUE.

MAY  23  Johann Kaspar Vogler (1696) / Johann Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759) / Ignaz Moscheles (1794) / Rosa Raisa (1893) / Edmund Rubbra (1901) / Artie Shaw (1910) / Jean Francais (1912) / Alicia de Larrocha (1923) / Robert Moog (1934)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Double-Dip «» A sampling of concertos for two instruments from various periods.

6 pm

Gounod: Symphony #1 in D Major

7 pm

Raff: Symphony #5 in E Major, op. 177 “Lenore”

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Five Great Singers (Jack Dipisa, guest)

 

 

WED.

MAY  24  Richard Hoffman (1831) / Paul Paray (1886) / Bob Dylan (1941)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Noted Visually «» A look at the interrelationship between the senses of sight and sound as found in nature and the arts.

9 pm

Gottschalk: Marche Solennelle for Orchestra and Bands;  Berg: Violin Concerto (“To the Memory of an Angel”);  Lalo: Namouna (Suite #1)

10 pm

Shostakovich: The Bolt, op. 27 (Suite);  Mozart: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 365

11 pm

Koechlin: The Law of the Jungle (Symphonic Poem), op. 175;  Dvořák: Symphony #6 in D Major, op. 60

 

 

THU.

MAY  25  Sverre Jordan (1889) / Miles Davis (1926) / Beverly Sills (1929)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «» Preliminary Action «» The various uses of preludes, both as introductions to large-scale works and as independent compositions.

6 pm

Handel: Organ Concerto #1 in G Minor, op. 4/#1;  Chabrier: Suite Pastorale

7 pm

Zemlinsky: The Mermaid (Fantasy for Orchestra);  Ewazen: Fantasia for 7 Trumpets

8 pm

Kodály: Dances of Galánta;  Delius: Florida Suite

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «» Songs from the Heart of America «» Freedom: Songs from the Heart of AmericaSing America;  Lee Greenwood: American Patriot;  Phil Coulter: American Tranquility

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Jeff Oster: Released;  Falling You: Touch;  Dan Siegel & Theo Bishop: Colors of the Land—Waterscapes

 

 

FRI.

MAY  26  Stan Golestan (1875) / Sir Eugene Goosens (1893) / Ernst Bacon (1898) / Gerard Bertouille (1898) / William Bolcom (1938) / Teresa Stratas (1939)

10 am

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 364

11 am

Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano #1 in G Major, op. 78

5 pm

KARL HAAS