Wednesdays at 9:00 pM
May 1 - Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen
Tonight’s broadcast features a 2011 recording in which Alan Gilbert conducts a staged production of Leoš Janáček's seventh opera, The Cunning Little Vixen, a playful, yet poignant, reflection on the cycle of life. We will hear interviews with the producer Edouard Getaz, director Doug Fitch, as well as cast members and Janáček expert Gavin Plumley.
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Soloists: Alan Opie, baritone
Melissa Parks, mezzo-soprano
Keith Jameson, tenor
Wilbur Pauley, bass
Joshua Bloom, baritone
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano
Serena Benedetti, soprano
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Emalie Savoy, soprano
Devon Guthrie, soprano
Lacey Benter, mezzo-soprano
New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director
Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus
May 8 - Alan Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s 6th Symphony
Tonight we feature a 2010 recording of Gustav Mahler’s 6th Symphony conducted by Alan Gilbert. The symphony contains a soaring theme dedicated to Alma Mahler in the first movement and ends with tragic hammer blows. The program opens with two works inspired by magical musical instruments: Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute and Schubert's overture to The Magic Harp.
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Franz Schubert: Overture to The Magic Harp
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6
May 15 - Christoph von Dohnányi Conducts Dvořák
Martin Helmchen is the soloist in Dvořák's piano concerto in G minor on a concert that also features the same composer’s Symphony No. 9, "From the New World." Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.
Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi
Soloists: Martin Helmchen, piano
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
May 22 - Alan Gilbert Conducts Brahms and Schoenberg
This concert from Alan Gilbert's inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic features his good friend Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto. This is balanced with the ultra-Romantic and evocative Pelleas and Melisande by Arnold Schoenberg. Alan Gilbert conducts and your host is Alec Baldwin.
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Soloists: Frank-Peter Zimmerman, violin
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto*
Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
May 29 - Aaron Copland Conducts The Tender Land
Aaron Copland leads the orchestra in an abridged version of his opera The Tender Land, recorded in 1965. Also featured are two jazz-inspired works: Bill Russo's Symphony No. 2, The Titans, featuring Maynard Ferguson as soloist with Leonard Bernstein conducting, and A Tone Parallel to Harlem featuring Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur.
Conductors: André Kostelantetz, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur
Soloists: Maynard Ferguson, trumpet
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra/ Wynton Marsalis, artistic director & trumpet
Joy Clements, soprano
Claramae Turner, mezzo-soprano
Richard Cassilly, tenor
Richard Fredricks, baritone
Norman Treigle, bass
Choral Art Society/ William Jonson, director
William Russo: Symphony No. 2, Titans
“Duke” Ellington arr.
Wynton Marsalis: A Tone Parallel to Harlem**
Aaron Copland: The Tender Land (abridged)